Six Flags is closing down certainly one of its East Coast parks on the finish of this season in what the corporate calls a reshaping of the “park portfolio.”
Maryland’s Six Flags America and its water park, Hurricane Harbor, will shut their doorways for the ultimate time after the 2025 season, the amusement park large introduced Thursday.
“As a part of our complete evaluation of our park portfolio, we now have decided that Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor aren’t a strategic match with the corporate’s long-term development plan,” Six Flags CEO Richard A. Zimmerman said.
“After reviewing a variety of choices, we imagine that advertising the property for redevelopment will generate the very best worth and return on funding. We anticipate sturdy curiosity within the property and can proceed to strategically pursue portfolio optimization alternatives as we work to unlock the total worth of our portfolio.”
The roughly 500-acre property might be marketed for redevelopment.
Whereas some appear shocked on the information, the park has not obtained a brand-new curler coaster in effectively over twenty years, with the distinctive flying coaster, Batwing, opening in 2001.
Along with an absence of recent curler coasters on the park lately, Six Flags America has additionally struggled to struggle off the competitors of one other theme park, Kings Dominion, positioned in Virginia.
Kings Dominion is now a part of the Six Flags Leisure Company following the 2024 merger.
In accordance with the corporate, severance and different advantages might be supplied to all eligible associates, with the park’s last working day slated for Sunday, November 2, 2025.
It’s unknown what’s going to occur to the park’s points of interest upon closure, although points of interest have been scrapped, bought and/or relocated in previous cases of park closures.
In accordance with Six Flags, this closure shouldn’t be anticipated to have an effect on the corporate’s 2025 monetary outcomes.
“This was a tough resolution, and we acknowledge the influence it’ll have on our Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor park associates and company,” Zimmerman added.
“We’re grateful to our park associates who work laborious to create lifelong recollections for our company, and Six Flags is dedicated to supporting all impacted associates by way of the closure course of on the finish of this 12 months. Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor have been an vital a part of the local people, and this last season might be a chance to have fun the a long time of enjoyable that company have loved on the property.”
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