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re: Offers to buy former Six Flags in New Orleans East to be scrutinized?
Posted on 2/15/17 at 7:10 am to geauxtigers87
Posted on 2/15/17 at 7:10 am to geauxtigers87
That security expense seems high but it's not really. One guy at $12/ hour for 24/7 is $9,000/ month.
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:00 am to dj30
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Water park/resort would probably do best.
Maybe less trash would flood blue bayou
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:06 am to dj30
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Water park/resort would probably do best.
In NO East, I agree
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:08 am to Teufelhunden
This is another purchaser destined for bankruptcy or the city is subsidizing the costs to acquire.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:23 am to Dire Wolf
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Didn't jazzland close before Katrina? Like days before
Yeah. When the evac was called, they shut it down like every other business.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:25 am to Big EZ Tiger
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The best part is that they spend $14,000 per month on 24-hour security.
They are probably getting kickbacks from the security company.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:27 am to XGLDNBAND
you have to scrutinize when you have competing bids.
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Industrial Development Board got three offers to buy the decaying site -- including a surprise bid from an attorney who stood up during the board's meeting Tuesday (Feb. 14) to offer $5.5 million. Three people made offers for the 224-acre property Tuesday -- $3.26 million from a group proposing a return of a Jazzland amusement park, $4.55 million from a developer pitching an amusement park and "city within a city," and $5.5 million from a developer's representative who didn't give details about his group's plans.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:28 am to XGLDNBAND
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wants to build an amusement park and "city within a city" called Transformation Village on the site
Lots of LGBT potential with that "village"
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:29 am to Jimmy2shoes
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Transformation Village
yeah, the east locals will transform this place into shite hole in no time.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:30 am to Loungefly85
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Didn't jazzland close before Katrina? Like days before
Yeah. When the evac was called, they shut it down like every other business.
Jazzland was bought out by Six Flags the year or so before Katrina. I had season passes to Jazzland, but had never gone to Six Flags NOLA (new name)
The friday before the hurricane, I'm at Hooter's with some co-workers and the boss gives us all passes to Six Flags. When we evacuated i used them at Astroworld because the storm we thought was just another "yearly evacuation nuisance" destroyed the city.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:35 pm to Napoleon
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The final date of the park's operation was October 30, 2005
You snuck in right before Astroworld closed. Y'all were dedicated.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:51 pm to Jimmy2shoes
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Lots of LGBT potential with that "village"
Yep; they call it fish and sticks.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:58 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:lol you think the gators don't clean up any mess left out there?
developers would find the bodies. we can't have that.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:07 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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these morons think they deserve some special offer worth more than the millions that some people are offering.
Billions?
This post was edited on 2/15/17 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:19 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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Those imbeciles better take whatever they can get now because it's only getting worse and it has been sitting and rotting for 10+ years as it is.
Right? 3.5 million in cash? Deal, done, walk away. No run away after you sign the papers and the cash is in the bank.
But...
1) No one has paid them off yet
2) They are paying security services, etc, I'm sure to someone's brother in law.
This is the same group that used to have the sad, yet appropriate name of the New Orleans Business Industrial District, known by the acronym NO BID. Shermin Copeland and Dollar Bill were big with this group.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:27 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
actually I wasted my pass, Astroworld was free for anyone with a La ID right after the storm, as were all toll roads in Texas.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:47 pm to Napoleon
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Jazzland was bought out by Six Flags the year or so before Katrina. I had season passes to Jazzland, but had never gone to Six Flags NOLA (new name)
The friday before the hurricane, I'm at Hooter's with some co-workers and the boss gives us all passes to Six Flags. When we evacuated i used them at Astroworld because the storm we thought was just another "yearly evacuation nuisance" destroyed the city.
Wife and I (at the time fiance) bought season passes to Six Flags in 2005. Reason was we both graduated college that year and we were going to take a few trips during the summer, and we did. We went to Astroworld, Fiesta Texas, and the Six Flags in GA. Just made sense to buy a Six Flags New Orleans pass. We had been to the park a few times over the years, first as Jazzland then as Six Flags. I remember going about 2 weeks before Katrina on a weekend and thinking, hey, the park is finally starting to get its' act together. Six Flags was making some good investments. And, there were the rumored plans that the water park was finally gonna happen.
Then it all went to pot.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:50 pm to Dire Wolf
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Didn't jazzland close before Katrina? Like days before
School was back in session and the park was closed during the week while school happens. So the park was closed M-F but operated on Sat-Sun every weekend. But, when it became evident Friday night that this Katrina could be a bad deal, they did not open for the weekend, as people were starting to evacuate and they had to secure the facility.
So the technical last day the park was open was Sunday, Aug 21, 2005.
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:51 pm to Loungefly85
Jazzland became six flags prior to Katrina and was never reopened after the storm
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