how much to build a park?

Show your love to the capital gains tax! Oh yeah :)

If you inherit that much money, take what's left after taxes, pay off your family's debt, go to college and study for a job you love, take long vacations and enjoy your life.

Don't get into something you didn't earn because of your inheritance. Nobody likes entitlement through money :)
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I think if you got that much money... the best bet would be to put a million away for security in case anything went wrong (bankruptcy, bad business decisions).

Your best bet?

Start small, dude... think SMALL... an F.E.C is your best bet... I'm through most of a business plan on my FEC, but I got to aquire funding thru numerous sources, including grants, loans, & donations... but I hope to have an opening date of March, 2005.

Basically, an FEC is a Family Entertainment Center, and that's where many businesses start out as, and then work their way up... start with go-karts, mini golf, & an arcade... then work your way up to climbing walls, laser tag, and so forth. Eventually, you could add such things as up-charge rides, depending on the demand & how business is going. It's a business that may start off a little slow, but if word gets around, it can become successfull enough to either expand, or move on to bigger & better things.

For what it's worth, Wired Magazine wrote,
"Islands is just one component in Universal's attempt to mount a serious challenge to Walt Disney World: Universal Studios Escape, a decade-in-the-making, 840-acre, $2.5 billion expansion of Universal Studios Florida, its existing tourist trap. In addition to Islands and the original park, this emerging entertainment nation-state includes a monumental arcade of restaurants and nightclubs called CityWalk, five new resort hotels (two open this year with three to follow), and thousands of new, as-yet-unstained parking places. Essentially, in one give-'em-all-we-got package, Universal, its corporate parent Seagram Company Ltd., and the Rank Group Plc - a 50-50 partner in this venture - will try to establish Escape as a primary destination, rather than a side trip for the millions of people who travel to Orlando each year mainly to pay homage to the Mouse."

So, that suggests that $2B pricetag was an all-inclusive number, and once the cost of the five planned hotels, the garages from Hell and Citywalk are subracted, you'd have a number for Islands of Adventure.

Source

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--Maddie--
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As i recall, i was reading an article in Amusement Today i believe it was (or another one of my amusement trader magazines) and it said it cost around 300 million dollars from start to finish of Warner Bros world somewhere in Europe.

I sent the article to a person named Freezecoaster, so if you know who he is, then he should be able to sent it to you if he still has it.

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Dukeis#1 said:
I would just buy a park that is already built and well-known, then turn it in what I would want it to be.

Does anybody know how much Visionland or Jazzland cost to build?

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Jazzland costed about 98 million dollars. I'd imagine Visionland would be much cheaper.
*** This post was edited by Cameraman 7/22/2003 7:26:58 PM ***

An interesting idea would be to purchase some used rides and concession them in a city or community park.

Now, we all know how park park should be from a guest point of view, but try working at a park, even one summer doing anything and you would likely gain a good perspective of how things should be run on the operations end.

A good idea would be to talk to the guys who built that small park in Nashville this year. Looks like it fit in the budget we're talking about.
http://rcdb.com/locationdetail940.htm

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*** This post was edited by bigkirby 7/22/2003 9:53:18 PM ***

That's exactly what I was thinking kirby. Just to let you all know it wouldn't be a huge thrill park it would just be the size of a big fair. Just a way to blow it and have fun at it.

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Well, after everything, you may only have about half of what you inherit. definitly invest and save a mill. Do the small park with small, used flats, and work your way up. Oh, and if you need anybody to help you run it. I have management experience......;)

BTW, I hear King Cobra is only a few houndred K...

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*** This post was edited by TeknoScorpion 7/22/2003 11:16:09 PM ***

And maybe Lord Gonchar could design your master plan. ;)

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Well I'm finishing college and getting a job first so you'll all have to wait about 5 years for me to even get started then another couple to get it up and running.

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On a side note, i was talking with S&S the other day and a 87 foot double shot tower costs $895,000 dollars just for the ride and about $125,000 to $150,000 for the installation (concrete, power, ect ect.). That's quite a bit amount of money for one of those puppies, so like DawgbyteII just said, start small, its the smartest thing to do. Plus, if it ends up going belly up, you won't lose as much money as you would if you were to spend $300,000,000.

It wouldn't be a huge park to start out with. Something like a putt-putt and a few cheap rides then expand to hopefully one day be as big as Camden Park, or something small like that.

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