LEGOLAND executives toured the former Novartis plant in Suffern Thursday as they continued to seek a home for a new park in Rockland County.

The small village in Ramapo could become home to a proposed $250 million mega-park.

Merlin Entertainment, the company behind LEGOLAND, earlier sought to open a park in Haverstraw. Residents there stiffly opposed the plan and officials abandoned it. They argued it would attract massive crowds.

Ramapo's town supervisor sees a benefit to the crowds.

"It would be a great tourism boost for Rockland County, for the state of New York," the supervisor says. "They expect 2 million visitors a year, one-third of them coming from overseas."

In addition to potentially generating tourism revenue, proponents say the plan could lead to more than 1,800 permanent jobs in the new park.

Merlin says it's still looking at alternative locations in Orange County and in New Jersey.