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Outside of Florida and So. Cal., there probably won't be a large scale theme park built from scratch for a very long time, if ever. Most were built in a 20 year period from the 1950s to the early 1970's, when the middle class was booming, commercial debt was cheap and readily available, and land was cheap in the outskirts of cities. Today, new rides are extremely expensive, construction costs are much higher, debt is expensive and difficult to get for new theme parks without the backing of a major corporation, land is more expensive due to ex-burb sprawl, the worn off novelty so they have to spend a ton in marketing costs, and it is difficult to build near any residential areas because of noise and NIMBY issues.
These factors make it uneconomical to build a new theme park today that is only going to operate part of the year, and will probably be far away from where lots of people live. The last one failed spectacularly in Myrtle Beach, a Hard Rock themed park that lasted 1 year before going bankrupt. When the major theme park companies want to expand, they don't build new parks, they just buy independent ones that are failing for peanuts or expand existing parks.
I wouldn't say that. Disney wanted to build a huge park in Prince William a few years back & it looked like it would have been amazing
Amazing thought! Think of all the tourism....... and how much more crowded traffic will be lol
Which is the reason county residents fought against it. They thought it would cause too much traffic & take away from the area's historic sites. But to say that no amusement park will ever be built outside of FL & CA again is not true
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