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Hershey, Pa., Chocolate World Amusement Park Gets a New Look.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2001

By Barry Fox, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 4--For the first time in more than a decade, Hershey's Chocolate World is expanding.

Construction of a $10 million, 13,000-square-foot addition is under way. The work will include a 3-D theater, a larger lobby and a red-brick facade reminiscent of Hershey Foods Corp.'s famed chocolate factory.

With dancing candy characters and exploding streamers part of the official announcement Tuesday, Don Papson, general manager of Chocolate World, said the addition will provide yet another feature for the 2.5 million visitors who come to the building adjacent to Hersheypark each year.

"The [chocolate-making] tour has been around since 1927, so people...

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