re: Could Louisiana Support A Huge Amusement Park Similar to Disney World?

You'd need far too many things to fall into place:
(In no particular order)

1. Corrupt LA politicians would need to be out of office/exposed very publically
2. MSY & BTR would essentially have to become 24 hr airports
3. South LA would have to become the cleanest place in the country virtually overnight. Litter, green mold growth, flood/mud clean ups, landscaping, pressure washing of restaurants/parking lots/every visible office & residential building, etc.
4. Every hotel within 60 square miles of the park would need to be upgraded, cleaned, competitively priced, & WELL staffed (educated, well spoken, caring, presentable, etc)
5. Every local, state, & federal police/fire/emergency department will need to be properly funded, fully staffed, & coordinated efforts between them & the Park company will need to be well established.
6. Staffing of the park & surrounding businesses will take care of itself as the local work force will weed themselves out & importing of desriable workers will begin practically overnight.
7. Mosquito & LA summer heat control will need to be of the utmost priority. Having lived in both South LA & Orlando, FL I can tell you without a doubt thay the heat/humidity/natural wind differences are intense. People from outsode LA will simply get ill over & over on a week long family trip without some modern advances.
Add to that the mosquitos that people from outside the South that would visit the park & eat mouths full of our state bird as well as go home with 100s of bites....yeah that wouldn't bode well.
8. Parks of this stature hold their own strict protocols & procedures to prevent & handle issues like what Jazzland experienced i.e. Summer Day Long babysitter park. That simply would not happen as park security would escort them off the premises so as not to trouble the real guests.


There's more, but that's that's enough for now that'll really no ever happen here simply because #1 will never happen.

Walt loved New Orleans. He has many New Orleans art pieces including this really nice late 19th century harpsichord painted from an Algiers vantage of the St Louis Cathedrals new spires.

Your list of eight was well thought-out and brought up great points but your Number Six needs to be ranked Number One (imo)-

Work Ethic:
Where in NOLA or BTR will a potential employer find hundreds of polite, responsible, punctual, hard-working, self-motivated employees with Disney-like staff level's skills?

They simply aren't here. No matter what the pay & benefits. Culturally we do not make them in sufficient quantities here.

tl/dr: You would have to import the help.

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Could Louisiana Support A Huge Amusement Park Similar to Disney World?

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Up until the mid 70's when New Orleans was a powerful southern city yes. Now it'd a flat out laughable flop.

Update on this Bon Temps "theme park" project. He's been putting focus groups together lately. If an OT'er would get into one of these and report back so we can have a first hand account of this lunacy, then your first drink is on me.

I think the answer is clear

Sure we got the gators already.

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put a farmer there and maybe you got something

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The cheese stands alone.

Why was this thread bumped up?