Come September, residents can sound off about the latest plan to transform the old Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans East, officials said this week.That's after the latest consultant to plug the site into a random land use generator came back with ZIPLINES OF RESILIENCE.
City officials are considering a plan to turn the site into a place where people can ride ziplines or hike and learn about the shrinking Louisiana coast.
Those kinds of attractions, which have been considered part of the ecotourism or adventure tourism industries, have grown in popularity in the U.S. and globally in recent years.
Prior to that it was Cyndi Nguyen's Indoor Water Park For Families Presented By Cyndi Nguyen.
Prior to that it was Tonya Pope and Edwin Edwards's Wax Museum
Prior to that it was Frank Scurlock's Zipline and Katrina Museum featuring John Young and a monorail, maybe?
Prior to that it was Scurlock with a different configuration of ziplines
Prior to that it was Pope with "dining and retail"
umm... here is a different consultant being called in
Prior to that Scurlock wanted to do one of those Noah's Ark amusement thingies.
Box retail!
This is sneakily my favorite episode. These guys went to jail after claiming to investors they had a contract to demolish the park for scrap metal.
More consultants!
We can go further back (all the way to Ed Blakely times, in fact) to find other proposals for movie studios, "advanced manufacturing" outlet malls, etc. Most of these presented by Scurlock, Pope, or Danny Rogers over and over again. But somehow we keep landing somewhere in the monorail/zipline zone.
So, yeah, maybe everybody really is out of ideas. What have y'all got?
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