Great America owner Cedar Fair and Six Flags to merge
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Cedar Fair, the owner of Santa Clara amusement park Great America, and theme park giant Six Flags, owner of Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, are merging to create an expansive amusement park operator spread across 17 U.S. states and three countries. Robert Handa reports.
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I hope they keep Great America 🙏 I have so many great memories there as a kid and with my kids now.
i hop six flags save great america looks like a great park never been there discovery kingdom on the other hand looks like trash though discovery kingdom is the park that should close for its animal cruelty iv only been to knotts berry farm but santa cruz and great america and magic mountain looks like good park though ill pass on Discovery Kingdom We Got Marineland in Canada its Just as bad
It’s already sold, it has to close by 2032
Me too, pray and hope they keep Great America, so bad 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾I grew up on this beautiful place.. We need to all get together and protest in front of Great America not to let the park go
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@@tylerkriesel8590 They can't keep it open that long because whoever bought the land would want it Sooner They're also planning on relocating the entire park near Fresno.
Keep the theme park. Do we really want more offices in the Bay Area?
They want more tech transplant aholes here
That’s exactly what everyone with the right mind is thinking. More fun, Less Company Homes
@@EarthySmerkyyeah so boring! Especially Lucy..I WANT MORE HUGS FROM HER AUGHHH
Sounds like more Karen offices😂
Commercial real estate values in the Bay Area are 40%+ off their peak. If Cedar Fair were smart, they'd take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and buy back the land from Prologis. They have a huge advantage in that the land is already zoned and developed as a profitable theme park. They could run it for another 10+ years while the market recovers and reassess then. Any other property owner / developer faces huge up-front costs and the nightmare of Bay Area planning comissions that will hold up the project for at least a decade. Who knows what the economics will look like then. For a similar example on a smaller scale, take a look at what happened to Malibu Grand Prix in Redwood City - 7 years of haggling with the city while the site became an overgrown blight, only for a bland, generic office park to finally be approved, just when demand for office parks has fallen off a cliff and property owners are going bankrupt right and left. My guess is the project wont break ground for another 5-10 years. If I were Prologis, I'd be on the phone tomorrow trying to cut a deal.
If the contracts are already signed and owner sold it, then it's pretty much a closed deal. I mean the owner of Great American could say here is your money back I would like to buy it back from you, but the person that bought it could very well say screw that it's mine! Or....they could say yeah I will sell you it back for double that or more then the offer paid.
first thing, bring back the dancing old guy driving the bus.
It will ALWAYS BE Marriott's Great America to me...😥♥️
Great memories and times...
I hope this saves great america.
Hopefully this means some of the GA rides can be brought over to SFDK after GA closes.
Yes please 😭😭
We love Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo but going there means 100 mile round trip and 2 bridges which could be over $14 in bridge tolls for just one trip to Vallejo. If CA Great America, is to become a six Flag Park, this could do wonders for this place. Six Flags parks are ran just a little bit different than regular amusement parks. In my opinion for some reason when we go to Discovery Kingdom, we have a better day and more fun than we have at CA great America?
never been to great america but i hop six flags saves it from closing down discovery kingdoms the one that should close
The land was already sold. They don’t have a choice, and have to close by 2032.
Great America was never the same after Marriott sold it. It was a great park back then.
They'd never approve it, but I think that the area by Bailey & Santa Teresa would be a good place for a new amusement park with more exciting rides. It's a bit out of the way, but better than driving to Vallejo or sitting in traffic on 17 for Santa Cruz.
I hope my pass for Great America ends up also working at Six Flags.
The one in Illinois.
1:10 what kind of an answer do you call that ??
Looney Tunes back babyyyyy
As a Statistical Analyst and Demographer since 1985, given that CA and the Bay Area in general is losing so much population and has an extremely high cost of living/tax burden, I would be very surprised if Great America stays open much longer. There are just too many other metro areas in the nation that have CF/SF parks like Charlotte, Dallas, and San Antonio that have low costs of living, strong population growth rates, great consumer Buying Power (income vs. cost of living), and very high qualities of life. Those areas make much more sense to put investment into compared to any place in CA, especially the Bay Area.
There also less jobs there.
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Doesn't Six Flags have a deal with the park next to the Texas Rangers stadium and the Rangers have a stake in that too? Maybe Six Flags and the 49ers come to an arrangement like the one next to the Texas Rangers stadium.
If Proligis didn’t have any long term plans yet then why did they buy it?
The bean counters are making theories on the value of the land ten years from now, and how much money they can potentially make from apartment and office rent space.
Because it's a massive lot of Prime real estate smack dab in the middle of Silicon Valley.
Can we get some antitrust going again? Bigger is not good for customers.
Werent they gonna close it
Ya by 2032, nothing about that has changed.
They're also planning on relocating the entire park to Fresno. I know I don't want it to close forever either but if they're relocating it, That's fine.
For ppl who live in sj what will they do as entertainment, thats our only source 😊
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I do not know anyone that can afford these parks anymore, it cost my sister 3000 dollars to take 3 grandchildren to Disney land for the weekend to ride the teacups and go in the haunted house. she said never again. madness madness at its peak.
This is on a completely different tier and level from Disney and Universal… you’re talking about global destination park market. Six Flags and Cedar Fair are on a much lower regional level… you do know that right?
Thank goodness for the Santa Cruz boardwalk. They ruined great America anyways with the emphasis on coasters and waterslides.
Amusement parks dont even seem that family friendly anymore. What are those ticket prices actually buying you?
How's that gav order you're violation of news station.
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No chance
I think Google and amazon own that area and amazon and Google own wbd that owns most theme parks..
I think that these state of California lies are evident in the United States supreme court cases.
Great America has awful dated rides anyway. Add more rides or get rid of it!
I commute to Discovery Kingdom and Magic Mountain for my thrills. When Great America moved Stealth, Invertigo AND Tidal Wave, those were UNFORGIVABLE "sins" if you will....
Close it. Raiders and A’s left and went to Las Vegas. No point
Raiders and A's left because Oakland is a crime cesspool with low revenue and horrible fans.
@@sphixionyou must be mistaken
That’s a different story. You’re talking about sports leagues not amusement parks, sports leagues are different from amusement park businesses
So does that mean GA not closing?
I think it will still close.
@@trevorjensen2706 discovery kingdoms the one that should be closing for animal cruelty
Absolutely not. The land has already been sold. They (CGA) have to shut down BY or BEFORE 2032.
@@tylerkriesel8590 still looks better then discovery kingdom
It might mean it will close faster
No chance