Fans say farewell to Six Flags America

This right here:

“Six Flags operates on about 20 percent of the entire site, which means we have not really seen the full potential, full economic potential of that site,” County Executive Aisha Braveboy said on Friday. “So we’re working with the ownership of Six Flags now, and they vet those who have bid on that project. The county has a real interest in seeing quality development that really should be able to generate tens of millions.”

Sums up exactly everything that is wrong in this country perfectly. It always comes back to dollars.

Was it ever hinted at as to whether it was profitable, or was it just not doing what it could do considering the worth of the plot?

Six Flags pre-merger did hold some properties where it barely spent a dollar in terms of capex but SFA was never really in that bracket.

This property hadn't been making money for years, and everyone in legacy Six management knew this. There are only a handful of people who can answer the question as to why they kept it for as long as they did. My hunch is that for as much data that these companies have, the unknown was how important is the property to the east region's pass program. Would closing the park harm the pass penetration at Great Adventure or Over Georgia? Well, it certainly doesn't matter now that KD and Dorney are capturing that market.

Can't imagine that the Northern DC area has any impact on season pass penetration at SFoG. I'm sure it's not zero, but I doubt it is meaningful.

The park was the proverbial step-child, may not have made much money, but certainly wasn't enough of a loser to have sold off years ago, or it would have happened. We all knew with the merger, and the need for "synergies" and debt reduction, that the die was cast. The only question was which rides might have a future life elsewhere. (Certainly not Wild One).

It's sad, but they've had 25 years to get that park turned around, and well, here we are.