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Plan to redevelop Six Flags: New Multi-Billion $ theme park
Posted on 4/12/16 at 8:59 am
Posted on 4/12/16 at 8:59 am
Press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
FROM: Scurlock Entertainment
NEW MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR THEME PARK AT FORMER SIX FLAGS PROPERTY TO BE UNVEILED AT PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY BEFORE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD
New Orleans, LA - Tuesday, April 12, 2016 -- Entrepreneur Frank Scurlock will join a group of local business owners at a press conference today, Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:30 a.m., corner of Loyola Avenue and Perdido Street near City Hall in New Orleans, to unveil re-development plans for a new theme park on the former 200-plus acre Six Flags property that closed down after severe flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. New Orleans, a major national and international tourist destination, is currently without a major theme or water park.
Scurlock and the business executives will be presenting the plan to the City of New Orleans Industrial Development Board later this afternoon. The proposal will include a new resort hotel with a beach swimming pool. Plans also include the building of an enclosed, international shopping center, twice the size of the Superdome in New Orleans. It will be similar to an indoor version of Epcot where the stalls are leased to countries instead of stores. The Scurlock family invented the "bounce house" and inflatable structures in 1959 in Louisiana. They have rented hundreds of thousands of them, providing entertainment for millions of children across the nation for over 50 years. Walt Disney had originally planned to bring his renowned theme park to New Orleans in the 1960's but instead opened the world's largest theme park, Disneyworld, in Orlando, Fla. instead.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
FROM: Scurlock Entertainment
NEW MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR THEME PARK AT FORMER SIX FLAGS PROPERTY TO BE UNVEILED AT PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY BEFORE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD
New Orleans, LA - Tuesday, April 12, 2016 -- Entrepreneur Frank Scurlock will join a group of local business owners at a press conference today, Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:30 a.m., corner of Loyola Avenue and Perdido Street near City Hall in New Orleans, to unveil re-development plans for a new theme park on the former 200-plus acre Six Flags property that closed down after severe flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. New Orleans, a major national and international tourist destination, is currently without a major theme or water park.
Scurlock and the business executives will be presenting the plan to the City of New Orleans Industrial Development Board later this afternoon. The proposal will include a new resort hotel with a beach swimming pool. Plans also include the building of an enclosed, international shopping center, twice the size of the Superdome in New Orleans. It will be similar to an indoor version of Epcot where the stalls are leased to countries instead of stores. The Scurlock family invented the "bounce house" and inflatable structures in 1959 in Louisiana. They have rented hundreds of thousands of them, providing entertainment for millions of children across the nation for over 50 years. Walt Disney had originally planned to bring his renowned theme park to New Orleans in the 1960's but instead opened the world's largest theme park, Disneyworld, in Orlando, Fla. instead.
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Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:01 am to 995webmaster
It will never be ready in time
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:02 am to 995webmaster
Wow, that would be a really positive development for the City of New Orleans. So it probably won't be allowed happen.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:02 am to 995webmaster
Uh, they'll have to change the name to Five Flags. 
quote:
The name refers to the flags of the six different nations that have governed Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.
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Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:02 am to 995webmaster
theme parks are so 80's-90's. Good luck with that
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:02 am to 995webmaster
I just don't see anything in that area of the city working out.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:03 am to 995webmaster
Edit : Odds of this actually happening? 
This post was edited on 4/12/16 at 9:11 am
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:04 am to 995webmaster
quote:
new resort hotel
Just what NOLA East needs.
Obligatory "frick Mitch."
This post was edited on 4/12/16 at 9:05 am
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:04 am to 995webmaster
85% of that budget will be spent greasing palms. If it does happen, it will be about 25% of the planned size.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:04 am to Buck Dancer
quote:I don't either, but if someone thinks there's an opportunity I say frick it. Let them try.
I just don't see anything in that area of the city working out.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:05 am to 995webmaster
I'll believe it when i see it.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:05 am to GetCocky11
quote:
Odds of this never actually happening?
1:infinity
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:06 am to 995webmaster
leading the prey to the predators.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:06 am to upgrayedd
none of that sounds like a very good idea to me
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:06 am to Shadowlink
quote:
but if someone thinks there's an opportunity I say frick it. Let them try
Reminds me of a guy after Katrina I had drinks with. He thought he was going to turn the Rigolets and Venetian Isles into the next South Beach.
Good try, good effort.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:07 am to Lester Earl
quote:
theme parks are so 80's-90's. Good luck with that
You shut your whore mouth.
Theme parks are awesome now that I can buy the expensive fast passes and skip by all the plebs.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:09 am to 995webmaster
Even if it does get built, the city won't be able to support it. Six Flags wasn't able to make a go of it. Placing a major tourist attraction in the middle of a desolate wasteland surrounded by the dregs of society is a recipe for disaster. The should have redeveloped the area into the a New International Airport instead of constantly pouring money into MSY.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:09 am to 995webmaster
quote:Poor Walt ...he could have been successful if only the the NOLA folk didnt have their hand out all the time.
Walt Disney had originally planned to bring his renowned theme park to New Orleans in the 1960's but instead opened the world's largest theme park, Disneyworld, in Orlando, Fla. instead.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:10 am to GetCocky11
quote:
Odds of this never actually happening?
100%.
Odds of any multi-billion dollar project in New Orleans are slim to none.
Posted on 4/12/16 at 9:13 am to uptownsage
I have my doubts, too, but I will say tourism now is a lot different that tourism, pre-K.... You wouldn't believe how many people are bringing their children -- young children -- to new orleans these days. A few weeks ago, I could barely walk down lower Decatur for all the strollers. Lower Decatur, one of the sleazier parts of the FQ
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