 Fox 23 and KRMG's Michelle Lin. As of this week, it's been a year since the announcement of a $2 billion theme park to be built in the Veneta area, but there hasn't been much progress. Critics point at the empty fields and lack of any actual construction as a sign that the American Heartland theme park will never get built. However, the company maintains that despite some unexpected obstacles, the project is still alive. We reached out to the developers for comment, but they said they'd rather, they prefer to wait.