NewsPlusNotes: Nickelodeon Universe - New Orleans

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Nickelodeon Universe - New Orleans

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, along with Southern Star Entertainment and Nickelodeon, announced today that they plan to open a new theme park - to be called Nickelodeon Universe - New Orleans - on the site of the former Six Flags New Orleans amusement park.

Now hold the phone for a minute though on this one, because although it's buried in the news of a new theme park, really what happened was Southern Star and Nick entered into a licensing agreement to use the characters at the planned park.

As for building the park, well, Southern Star has to go before the New Orleans government to ask for some $100 million in bonds to pay for construction. Southern Star will then lease the land from the city and pay Nick a licensing fee.

If the bonds are approved and the park gets built, several new rides and some "major water based attractions" would be added to the park, and several existing rides would be brought back. Plans call for construction to start this fall after design work is complete, and an opening would be before the end of 2010.

I'm going to hold off on getting excited until those bonds are approved, but it's interesting news nonetheless!

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