June 29, 2017
A Houston federal jury has awarded at least $84.55 million, and possibly much more, to a real estate company that invested and then allegedly lost millions in a plan to redevelop the land where Houston's AstroWorld theme park used to sit.
March 03, 2017
A Texas magistrate judge said Friday that several developers' bids to toss a fraud suit against them should be denied, noting that questions remain about their failed scheme to repurpose the former Six Flags AstroWorld site in Houston.
July 15, 2016
Fraud claims against the developers behind a failed scheme to repurpose the former Six Flags AstroWorld site in Houston survived a challenge from the defendants in a Texas court Thursday, with the court finding British corporation B Choice Ltd. had made sufficiently specific accusations and was owed a $13 million payment on a promissory note.
December 14, 2015
The developers behind a failed scheme to repurpose the former Six Flags AstroWorld site in Houston reiterated Monday that an investment company's $25 million suit claiming fraud and breach of contract should be tossed, saying B Choice Ltd.'s losses are merely an unfortunate byproduct of the economic downturn.
October 20, 2015
The developers behind a failed scheme to repurpose the former Six Flags AstroWorld site in Houston told a Texas federal judge on Monday that British investment company B Choice Ltd.'s remaining claims in a $25 million suit against it all amount to a breach of contract.
July 07, 2015
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday partly granted a motion to dismiss B Choice Ltd.'s suit alleging the British real estate investment company was defrauded of $25 million in a doomed project to develop the former Six Flags AstroWorld site.
June 11, 2015
A Spanish investor said Wednesday that a Texas federal court lacks jurisdiction to hear claims that he helped scam British investment company B Choice Ltd. into betting $25 million on a doomed project to develop the former Six Flags AstroWorld site.
March 18, 2015
An Italian real estate broker and his company, one of several defendants accused of scamming $25 million from investors in the former Six Flags AstroWorld property, asked a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss the racketeering lawsuit, saying the plaintiff, British investor B Choice Ltd., has failed to make an actionable fraud claim.
July 22, 2014
B Choice Ltd. sued Epicentre Development Associates LLC and others in Texas federal court for breach of contract and fraud in connection with its $25 million investment in a project to develop the site of defunct theme park Six Flags AstroWorld into EpiCentre Houston.