Six Flags to have hearing over New Orleans Park

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Deadman

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http://www.wwl.com/City-and-Six-Flags-have-court-hearing-scheduled-fo/4880033

The city of New Orleans and owners of the Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans East today head back to court , to continue their legal struggle.

The city wants to recoup money it says it is owed and find a way to reopen the complex. Six Flags is in bankruptcy and has not reopened the amusement park since Hurricane Katrina flooded it in 2005. A temporary restraining order is in place keeping Six Flags from removing any more rides or equipment from the park, which has been closed since Katrina.

While the legal battle continues, a Baton Rouge-based company called Southern Star Entertainment has applied for $100 million in GO-Zone bonds to take over the par and redevelop it. The bond commission has delayed that application, and city officials say any future plans for the site are questionable until they can settle the dispute with Six Flags.
 
maggiegrace1

maggiegrace1

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Deadman said:
http://www.wwl.com/City-and-Six-Flags-have-court-hearing-scheduled-fo/4880033

The city of New Orleans and owners of the Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans East today head back to court , to continue their legal struggle.

The city wants to recoup money it says it is owed and find a way to reopen the complex. Six Flags is in bankruptcy and has not reopened the amusement park since Hurricane Katrina flooded it in 2005. A temporary restraining order is in place keeping Six Flags from removing any more rides or equipment from the park, which has been closed since Katrina.

While the legal battle continues, a Baton Rouge-based company called Southern Star Entertainment has applied for $100 million in GO-Zone bonds to take over the par and redevelop it. The bond commission has delayed that application, and city officials say any future plans for the site are questionable until they can settle the dispute with Six Flags.
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They really need to tear the whole thing down and just not build an amusement park at all...

Neither Six Flags or Jazzland did anything for New Orleans..:shrug:



The one thing that interests me on the page when you click the link is this...

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heartodisney

heartodisney

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Thank you for this post...I have people here that argue that the park does not exist...well...it kinda exists...in part...but...yes..things like this just do not do well in that area...I used to live there...loved it..but...it is kinda sad..
 
maggiegrace1

maggiegrace1

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MKCP 1985 said:
I say we take up a collection to buy the Batman coaster and put it in Dana's back yard. :D
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Um..Let's not..:p:D
heartodisney said:
Thank you for this post...I have people here that argue that the park does not exist...well...it kinda exists...in part...but...yes..things like this just do not do well in that area...I used to live there...loved it..but...it is kinda sad..
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It exists...it is a bunch of rusty rotting roller coasters sitting in swamp land with snakes and rats and God knows what else looking like crap...

New Orleans is not a place for an Amusement park....plain and simple.
 
nolatron

nolatron

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maggiegrace1 said:
New Orleans is not a place for an Amusement park....plain and simple.
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Why not?

I think the main issue with the park was it's location. It was too far on the East side of town from the rest of primary population of the New Orleans Metro area. I went to it only once when it was still Jazzland.

If a theme park was put up closer to the Metro area, it would probably have done much better.
 
maggiegrace1

maggiegrace1

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Fallen Angel said:
New Orleans isn't a place for anything, really. They built a city BELOW SEA LEVEL!!! Hello :rolleyes:
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Well...we do live here..

Have you ever been here?

If you have, then I doubt you would be saying that..


nolatron said:
Why not?

I think the main issue with the park was it's location. It was too far on the East side of town from the rest of primary population of the New Orleans Metro area. I went to it only once when it was still Jazzland.

If a theme park was put up closer to the Metro area, it would probably have done much better.
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Where in the metro area?

Also, I just think that if it would draw in tourists it would be fine..but if it drew in locals..which the other one did then that is where the problem is..because they ruined it..they trashed it..did not care about it and how it looked..also the locals who worked there did not give a crap either..

I live here and I say that..and I think it is sad..:shrug:
 
nolatron

nolatron

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maggiegrace1 said:
Where in the metro area?
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That's the big question though. Sadly there just wasn't a place for it closer to town, which why it got stuck out way in east jesus land it seemed in the middle of the marsh lands.

Maybe they could've used some of the land for what seems like the never ending convention center along the river, heh.

There was that old "pave the lake" idea.... :drevil:

maggiegrace1 said:
Also, I just think that if it would draw in tourists it would be fine..but if it drew in locals..which the other one did then that is where the problem is..because they ruined it..they trashed it..did not care about it and how it looked..also the locals who worked there did not give a crap either..

I live here and I say that..and I think it is sad..:shrug:
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I agree. It didn't attract the best local crowd after awhile. With the super cheap tickets and season passes you could buy, it almost became like a "summer camp" for tweens.
 
maggiegrace1

maggiegrace1

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nolatron said:
That's the big question though. Sadly there just wasn't a place for it closer to town, which why it got stuck out way in easy jesus land it seemed in the middle of the marsh lands.

Maybe they could've used some of the land for what seems like the never ending convention center along the river, heh.

There was that old "pave the lake" idea.... :drevil:



I agree. It didn't attract the best local crowd after awhile. With the super cheap tickets and season passes you could buy, it almost became like a "summer camp" for tweens.
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Which was the worst place in the world for it to be...:brick:..and where it will once again go if they put a new park there..they will never go with the pave the lake idea....

That was the problem..the discounts and $50 season tickets and BOGO free offers and you did not attract the cream of the crop...:hammer:
 
MKCP 1985

MKCP 1985

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Fallen Angel said:
New Orleans isn't a place for anything, really. They built a city BELOW SEA LEVEL!!! Hello :rolleyes:
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That was really uncalled for. :fork: The city has been around long enough and has survived enough that "they" must have known something about what they were doing!

That post is just really annoying.
 
nolatron

nolatron

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maggiegrace1 said:
Which was the worst place in the world for it to be...:brick:..and where it will once again go if they put a new park there..
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Don't know if you've seen Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail, but the park's location always reminds me of the Castle sinking into swamp scene. :lol:
 
dandaman

dandaman

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"We built an amusement park up from nothing. It sank into the swamp. So we built another one! That one sank into the swamp. So we built a THIRD park. That one burned down, fell, THEN sank into the swamp! But the fourth park stayed up!"

SFNO: Origins :lookaroun
 
unkadug

unkadug

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I never went there when it was open, but I have seen pictures of the park before and after Katrina. It seems to really had little to no themeing and/or landscaping. It looked to be a poor excuse for a Six Flags IMO.

I understand SF owes New Orleans money, but why the city would want to throw good money after bad is beyond me. :shrug: It seems to me that there would be more pressing needs for a city that size than the need to go into the theme park business.
 
nolatron

nolatron

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unkadug said:
I never went there when it was open, but I have seen pictures of the park before and after Katrina. It seems to really had little to no themeing and/or landscaping. It looked to be a poor excuse for a Six Flags IMO.

I understand SF owes New Orleans money, but why the city would want to throw good money after bad is beyond me. :shrug: It seems to me that there would be more pressing needs for a city that size than the need to go into the theme park business.
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The hope would be to generate business by attracting locals and tourist (even if it's just people from nearby NOLA, the northshore, and Slidell). That business would provide jobs to the locals that could give them something to use to get back on two feet, as well push that money back into the local businesses and stimulate local economy hopefully.

It seems silly from one point of view, but it's seems logical from another.
 
DznyGrlSD

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I want to apologize if I offended anyone with my post. I'm still just frustrated with the whole Katrina-thing. I read somewhere that where Six Flags is built is actually sinking 2" a year as well.
 

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