Do you ever wonder why your city dosent have a par

There have been several attempts over the years to build a "major" amusement park in the Baltimore area.  Some sites that have been looked at by Disney, SF and Marriott (when they were still in the park business) to name a few are the old Bay Shore Amusment Park site in Baltimore Co., the old US Naval Training Base in Cecil Co., An area near Martin State Airport in Baltimore Co., prime locations off I-70 in Howard Co., the list goes on and on. The major hang up in every one of these proposals for a theme park is the "Not in my back yard" attitude that always prevails. Yes, SFA is only a short drive from Baltimore, but it would be nice to have a major theme park attraction that was built from the ground up, planned and layed out rather than one that was "pieced" together over the years. It kills me that no one wants an amusement park, but you never really hear that much complaining when someone wants to build yet another shopping mall within 5 miles of another one that is already 40 % empty.

I thought BGW was going to be originally in Greensboro, NC?!

Whatever happened to the third Marriott's Great America that was proposed for Washington DC? Did it ever break ground?

It's probaly safe to say Disney has looked at something everywhere, there's always some Disney wanted to build something here stories, or there was going to be a Six Flags here.

Living where I live now, it's safe to say the people who vacate here want to play golf, & they build golf courses year after year, after year. If it's not a golf course, it's useless, & it's not going in! Of course, there are two woodens at Myrtle Beach, but even on the busiest days, I'm riding with very, very few other people. Most the time it's solo with the wife. So, I guess the best hope is in places that already are there, or have that kind of thing well established in their areas. Sure, I'd like a new park, but if a park in my area starts to do REALLY well, then a park that's somewhere else may not do as well. People can only go so many places, and there's only so many of us that go to these places(and by 'us', I mean everybody, coaster thirsty or regular vacaters).......

Marriott was looking for sites in the Baltimore/Washington and even Northern VA. area for it's third Great America park, but it never materialized. It fell victim to the "not in my back yard" syndrome I mentioned above. Howard County, MD even rushed through legislation that there could only be one amusement park in that county when Marriott started buying up rural farm land off I-70. At that time there was a kiddie park called Enchanted Forest in Howard Co., and they felt that was enough to meet the demand for a theme park.  Sadly, Marriott's Great America never got off the drawing board.

I live in a small town called South Orange and we have enough traffic. a Themepark would kill us. My question is why doesn't New York City have a Major theme park! No offence to coney island but the Cyclone wouldn't match a 4-D or B&M flyer in my opionion.

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I think it because I live in Greenville, SC.  However, I have two homeparks...PC and SFoG are pretty much the same distance from me (about 1 1/2 hours), so that's pretty cool, I have season passes to both parks.
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The reason why a lot of parks no longer exist is usually twofold. Declining patronage and the value of the land exceeds the value of the business. A great many parks are now housing developments or shopping centers because real estate developers made the owners an offer they couldn't refuse. It's especially enticing when the demographics of an area change and the park is no longer a viable enterprise.

As far as new parks are concerned, land values have a definite effect upon where they are placed. In this case, as has been pointed out, "NIMBY"ism is the most potent. The thought of an amusement park close by depreciating their property values will drive people to extreme measures. Most of the "biggies" have had experiences with this, not to mention a whole lot of smaller proposed operations.