Thanks for the replys. Its amazing how the "not in my backyard" mentality has kept many theme parks from being built. Back in the mid 1970's Marriott wanted to build a Great America park in Howard Co., Maryland, about 40 minutes from Baltimore. That area was rural back then, now 30 years later with development out of control in the exact area where the park would have been built, I wonder how many are now thinking that an amusement park wouldn't have been so bad? In recent years the NIMBY brigade has kept proposals by Disney and other groups from building a theme park on the long defunct Bainbridge Naval Training Station in Cecil Co., Maryland off of I-95. The land has to be enviromentally cleaned before it can be put to use and only Disney seems to have the cash to make it happen. I'm really surprised that SFA has been able to build and expand in recent years. Way back in the early 1970's when that park started as a drive through safari park, there was nothing out there. Even in the Wild World years that area was still kind of remote. It's only been within the last 15 years or so that the homes have sprang up near the park, along with the complaints of noise, traffic, etc. Here's a thought, if you don't like the idea of an amusement park as a neighbor, don't buy a house down the road from it.
