http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav Next time we're in Amsterdam, we'll be able to nibble a few hash bonbons and then wander through Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. For real: Dutch construction company BAM has partnered with the City of Amsterdam to create a $20-million-euro, 12,500-square-foot chocolate factory theme park, De Chokoladefabriek, in an abandoned loop of underground tram tunnel. Scheduled to open in 2009 at Ruijterkade 105-106, the Chokoladefabriek will cost 20 euros and include a Roald Dahl-inspired glass elevator and chocolate fountain.... Copyright 2007 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:01:56 -0800 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:01:21 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss How anyone can be mad at the Dutch is beyond me. And now this... it brings a tear to my eye...

]]> Phenics http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387405 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:16:11 -0800 When do you think the Stranger might do an article on Fremont's Fair Trade Organic Chocolate Factory? I mean, it's nice you're giving people an excuse to fly to Amsterdam and all that, but we already have a chocolate factory in a trolley barn that used to a brewery ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387406 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:17:29 -0800 Way cool - but look for serious cost overruns do to the skyrocking cost of Oompa Loompas...

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387434 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:21:35 -0800 Oops - due...

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387435 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387435 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:22:02 -0800 Will: We might but know nothing about it. Is there a good story there? What do you know? (You can write to me at amykate@thestranger.com.)

]]> Amy Kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387449 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:41:00 -0800 yes, Will, but alas there is no good hash to accompany the chocolate in Fremont...

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387464 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387464 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:05:18 -0800 it looks like it's up by centraal station?

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387474 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:12:18 -0800 Someone should map it... I've been meaning to, but deadlines are drowning me. The building in front of it is familiar-looking...
www.bma.amsterdam.nl/adam/nl/msp/zeevaart.html

]]> Amy Kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387494 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c387494 Life Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:00:48 -0800 Umm...looks like a developer's fantasy project to me. I ride past this spot every morning (yes, it IS up by the Centraal Station), and there's neither space for a building like this (Really. It's a simulation -- probably a sketch from the developer's portfolio. The smaller building to the right houses the English-language newspaper The Amsterdam Weekly, with of course a bikeshop/coffeeshop below. After that, it's just the elevated train tracks.), nor very likely a viable market for a project such as this. While Rotterdam has the Van Nelle coffee and chocolate works, and Zandam to the north has the Verkade cocoa factory, Amsterdam has no history of chocolate production (Of course, that didn't stop someone from opening a branch of Madame Tussaud, and a Hard Rock Cafe here, either. I imagine they feel lucky enough to keep the Heineken 'museum' --fake brewery-- open.).

]]> cpoticha http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c390013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/06/way_better_than_heav#c390013 Life Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:01:21 -0800