And then beyond that, Brian and I just announced August 1 of this year along with the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis and the County Mayor Jerry Demings that we would be building a whole another gate with more hotels in Orlando called Universal's Epic Universe. We have about 738 acre. About 738 acres on what we call the North Campus {Main UOR campus}. And then we have a Mid Campus with another 30 acres or so upon which we are putting 2,800 hotel rooms. And to the south of that, we just acquired another 750 acres.
This land is quite close to one another. It's about a 10, 15 minute bus ride between the two different locations which is actually quite quick. And so we are going to build this whole new fourth gate. And we haven't announced price. We haven't announced the content in terms of the IP or even timing because it's senseless to do so. Why tell the competition what you are doing? And beyond that, why risk deferring attendance. That makes no sense. So we are hard at work. We have done our demand modeling. We have done our research. We have fully planned the park. We are beginning to work on it now with masquerading and so forth, preparing the land, installing infrastructure. So that's definitely a big priority.
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So let's run through each one of them. So the U.S., I am not sure what you are going to answer. I just had a question on timing, like any color that you can give on either one of those? Okay.
Tom Williams
Just for the reasons I said.
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And the IP, just conceptual like --?
Tom Williams
I mean it's the best. And we have tested them all and they are killers. It's a great line.
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So this would be different than other parks in Florida?
Tom Williams
It takes it to the whole next level. It's going to redefine what a park experience is like. It really is special.
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How long do parks take, do you think, from -- you said you have already started to just --
Tom Williams
Acquire the land and then of course, you prepare the land for development. It's at least a five, six year process. Because you know, in our business, the way we do attractions, the vendor community that can support what we want to do is pretty thin. So it's not like you can go to a tradeshow and buy a ride and say, yes, I will take that ride. It just doesn't work that way. You have to design these from the ground up. You start with story, right. You start with popular IP that people have an affinity for and emotional connection to, take Harry Potter as an example. And you say, okay, what are the most favorite parts of that story? Of all that fiction? Seven books? What are the most favorite parts?
And so you select what those are and you combine that with characters, you combine that with environment and you then turn your attention to, okay, now I know what I want to do. How do I do it? And so that takes a lot of research and development. Especially on the engineering side, because a lot of times it involves technologies that have yet to be invented. That's definitely the case with our Mario, Super Mario cart ride. We had to invent and then you have to find a way to fabricate and meet all quality standards and so forth. And sometimes, like in that case, you have to do it yourself because no one, you can't find anybody that wants to do what you want to do.
And so this takes time. And so, by the time we get to design and all the R&D and eventual commissioning and soft opening, it's a good five, six year time period.