Theme Park (Phoenix, Florence, Eloy: loans, house, buy)
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I was looking at the Legend City site (what a walk down memory lane!) and noticed a clipping with their summer hours and it looks like during the hot months they opened at 6pm. As a resident who would lives nearby this proposed park I would visit in the summer months even in the afternoon if it was designed properly.
I would be excited if this came to reality but something about the whole thing and the poster seems fishy
Questioning the success of a theme park based on the real estate market and other jobs that revolve around home sales & construction is tunnel vision. Theme parks exist in California, Florida, Texas, Illinios, and elsewhere ... and they still attract visitors even during recessions. I think you're just opposed to a theme park for various shallow reasons (the heat, the housing market, etc.), but those reasons just don't hold up when looking at the success of most theme parks throughout the rest of the nation.
I am NOT opposed to any theme park. It is NOT my money. I am simply making a point that we are on the VERGE of a recession, at a minimum, a depression to the likes of the 1920's a potential possibility.
In a depression, theme parks will become ghost towns. Anyone remember 9/11? A depression would make what happened to the economy due to 9/11 seem like a pebble in the road.
I am not being a pessimist, just a realist. We will have a $3 trillion debt for the war. When the housing crash smoke clears, they estimate close to another $3 trillion. That is $6 trillion PLUS the $9 million debt we already have, for a grand total of $15 trillion. This is money that we will get from where?
If you think America will always prosper, I am sorry to say, you are being naive...A theme park will crash and burn during those times. The only thing will matter will be health, food and shelter. The basic necessities of life, not a roller coaster park.
I was looking at the Legend City site (what a walk down memory lane!) and noticed a clipping with their summer hours and it looks like during the hot months they opened at 6pm. As a resident who would lives nearby this proposed park I would visit in the summer months even in the afternoon if it was designed properly.
I would be excited if this came to reality but something about the whole thing and the poster seems fishy
Hmm - I was just thinking the same thing. A parent with a 3-yr old asking C-D forum posters for input on a very large theme park whose developers are in the process of getting approval by the Town of QC and ready to pull permits???
I may be wrong, but I thought any theme park of any significant size would involve big $$$$$$ to build, maintain, and hire the personnel needed to run it. The developer (I would normally assume a large corp) would have done the R&D at least 5 years prior and would have a definitive plan to present to Planning & Zoning.
. . . Or maybe we're all just part of the Research & Development phase.
I think that will be a great idea we need some kind of a them park what better place queen creek whereabouts?
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Originally Posted by kimolyn
Everyone,
There is one in the planning stage right now, we are working with the Town Of Queen Creek as we speak. We are looking for other ideas that the people of Arizona would like to see. We are going to be a cross between Disney and Six Flags. Unlike the one in Williams we have real coasters. We will be posting a day by day post as to how things are progressing. We look to start this project as early as Jan 08 with the opening day Aug 09.
Anyone interested in learning more or giving ideas to us please respond.
Billions of dollars from visitors worldwide can help this state be prosperous.
People come here for the Grand Canyon and then they have nowhere to go in Arizona so they go to Vegas or California to spend their money.
Last time I checked Disney has weathered several recessions.
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Idaho Theme Park Closes for "Cold", not heat.
There is a large theme park in Northern Idaho, Silverwood, that is open during the spring, summer & fall months and not in the cold winters. It seems to do well and it attracts a lot of Canadians and their money. I personally would not spend a day in a theme park in Phoenix during June, July, August, September, but a lot of people who can handle the heat probably would. (I don't go to Phoenix period in the hot months unless I am forced!). As far as using misting and water parks for cooling there...well, we don't have a lot of extra water to "waste" and you can't use effluent water like golf courses do where people are going to be in contact, so that should be thought through.
Plans for the "Decades" theme park are moving along.
Eloy closer to getting rock 'n' roll theme park | www.azstarnet.com ® (http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/226134 - broken link)
The effort to build a large-scale rock 'n' roll theme park in Eloy passed its first test Wednesday.
The Senate Commerce and Economic Development Committee signed off on backers' request to create a special taxing district to help finance the park.
Laugh about Eloy if you want, but ten years ago people also would have laughed if I'd told them Marana would be home to one of the biggest golf tournaments in the world and the site of a brand new Ritz-Carlton. When Tiger Woods comes to Arizona, he plays golf in Marana, not Scottsdale. He's even going to build a house at The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain. Must be nice buying homes to live in for about a month of every year. Even Tiger appreciates the beauty of the Arizona desert.
puttin' on the ritz at home | www.azstarnet.com ® (http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/225999 - broken link)
I'm just saying, don't be surprised if ten years from now Eloy is a lot different than it is now. It sure doesn't look like much now though when you drive by it going 75 miles an hour. In fact, it's mostly dilapidated property with for sale signs on them. I think most of those owners are just waiting for the state to come through and buy them when they start working on the Interstate along there. Most of Eloy will probably just be torn down. And there will be a huge theme park with a lot of hotels and other things around it.
Plans for the "Decades" theme park are moving along.
Eloy closer to getting rock 'n' roll theme park | www.azstarnet.com ® (http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/226134 - broken link)
The effort to build a large-scale rock 'n' roll theme park in Eloy passed its first test Wednesday. The Senate Commerce and Economic Development Committee signed off on backers' request to create a special taxing district to help finance the park.
Laugh about Eloy if you want, but ten years ago people also would have laughed if I'd told them Marana would be home to one of the biggest golf tournaments in the world and the site of a brand new Ritz-Carlton. When Tiger Woods comes to Arizona, he plays golf in Marana, not Scottsdale. He's even going to build a house at The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain. Must be nice buying homes to live in for about a month of every year. Even Tiger appreciates the beauty of the Arizona desert.
puttin' on the ritz at home | www.azstarnet.com ® (http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/225999 - broken link)
I'm just saying, don't be surprised if ten years from now Eloy is a lot different than it is now. It sure doesn't look like much now though when you drive by it going 75 miles an hour. In fact, it's mostly dilapidated property with for sale signs on them. I think most of those owners are just waiting for the state to come through and buy them when they start working on the Interstate along there. Most of Eloy will probably just be torn down. And there will be a huge theme park with a lot of hotels and other things around it.
I recently heard that Fender Guitars jumped on board! How exciting!
Thanks to your input the Arizona State Senate
passed Senate Bill 1450 last week by a 17-11 vote. This will facilitate the construction and financing of Decades Music Theme Park here in
Arizona!
Now the bill goes to the Arizona House of Representatives and we need your help to get it passed there before it goes to the Governor's Desk.
All of this is happening quickly. Please email the following members of the Arizona House Commerce Committee today! We need a big victory there to keep the momentum going.
Their emails are below. Please include a subject line referencing
"Support for SB1450 and Decades Music Theme Park." Thank you for all
your support.
Go to [url=http://www.DecadesUSA.com]DECADES Music Theme Park: Eloy, Arizona[/url] for more information.
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