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Originally Posted by g-man430 charlotte or atlanta. The end.
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Standing ovation.
I'm with theses two on this one. I feel the fly by night amusement companies that show up at Haywood Mall and currently at White Horse and 253 are enough.
An amusement park is a seasonal business. Greenville is not a tourist destination, for the most part, and could not economically support an amusement park. I don't think we have the population to staff that type of venue. Part-time seasonal employees are hard to find. We have a really hard time hiring pool monitors for our condo pool between May and September. It would also be a prime location downtown that would be unused for 6 months out of the year if it were to locate where the current zoo is located. We don't even draw large crowds for the Upper SC State Fair once a year.
I don't know with our weather they could stay open February to November and have concerts and events in the winter time.
I also wonder how many people are living in Greenville because it is the perfect sized town/city for them to live. They love how quaint and easy things are to get to. It's the perfect size...not too big and not too small.
If Greenville needs to really keep growing and more Amusement Parks, businesses, new large shopping areas/malls and other type deals are built by cutting down our trees and building on our pretty land and then more trees are leveled to build more and more cookie cutter houses on I just wonder how many people will leave Greenville because it's not the place they moved there for.
It's become congested everywhere and sprawled out and not much country part to it anymore.
I know I'd leave if the area grew too much. I know others would too.
I think if Greenville grows it will continue to be more in the core that is already built out. A lot of places have pockets of land that could be developed and not create a "bigger" (physically) city (Verdae, Poinsett Highway, Greenville county going out towards Easley). I also see Greenville becoming a lot more dense in older neighborhoods (downtown, Wade Hampton, West Greenville, Berea, etc. People can and should leave if they don't fill comfortable with what Greenville is becoming and there are plenty of beautiful smaller towns in the area that I am sure would welcome them!
As for the topic, I like the idea of having it off I-85 at White Horse Road. That area needs some investment and this could bring development with it. It is already a large established road at a major interstate in the Southeast. I see an amusement park as being something that people would attend while they are in Greenville but not something that would be a draw in and of itself.
If it was at Wade Hampton, it would be 5 miles (11 minutes) from downtown Greenville, 8.2 miles (11 minutes) from Haywood Mall, 14.6 miles (19 minutes) from GSP.
Thoughts? (And I'm not saying this will every happen, just fun to speculate/wonder about)
I'm just saying if Greenville grows too much and gets too overcrowded there will be those that will leave the area. I know some that have already done that. It's just some people's preference. Greenville can grow and grow and grow and get millions of people to come here, that's fine and great, but some might not like what G'ville would have become. That's just MY personal preference for Greenville. I know you and others don't agree and that's fine.
Growth is good but not too much.
It's all subjective at a certain point. I don't think the folks in Raleigh or Dallas have many regrets though!
Just as an FYI the zoo is not moving. The public hearings are quite informative. I think there is going to be another one in May.
That's interesting.... I didn't think they could really do much more with the space they're currently in(??)... So, is the zoo not going to grow & improve?
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