News Six Flags America & Hurricane Harbor to Close Following 2025 Season

[horsesboy]

Listing is up.

13710 Central Avenue

Metro, DC Development Site: 515 Acres - 3 Miles Outside Capital Beltway

www.cbredealflow.com

"The site is currently zoned for Residential and Legacy Comprehensive Design", guess that shows the future of this place.

The listing was put up several months ago. My best effort to search has found no public records or list of hearings on rezoning of the site. So unless Maryland has some loop hole that is different from othef states i can only conclude that rezoning has not happened despite what the listing says.

 

[SixFlagsIssues]

I posted that in May. The auction was in August and bidding process is over, we are just waiting for Six Flags to vet the winning bid.

News - Six Flags America & Hurricane Harbor to Close Following 2025 Season

I knew I had seen it before but I had no proof to back up my side.

 

[Great Adventurer]

I posted that in May. The auction was in August and bidding process is over, we are just waiting for Six Flags to vet the winning bid.

News - Six Flags America & Hurricane Harbor to Close Following 2025 Season

Embarrassingly, I saw and reacted to that, too! I must have willed myself to forget about it while the park was operating.

 

[DH_The_ThemeParkFaniac]

winning bid?

 

[horsesboy]

winning bid?

All bids were under an NDA agreement till Six Flags lifts the agreement we won't know. It’s also not really an auction as Six Flags doesn't have to take the highest bid but the one that they like best. We could possibly learn something in the next Six Flags quarterly report but my guess would be sometime after the first of the year.

 

[bill s]

"The site is currently zoned for Residential and Legacy Comprehensive Design", guess that shows the future of this place.

Someone is lying. Either county spokespersons or that listing.

 

[MaxxForceFan]

Someone is lying. Either county spokespersons or that listing.

No one is lying. That is the current zoning. The county is planning to work with the developer Six Flags picks to rezone the property for a higher density mixed use.

 

[rswashdc]

No one is lying. That is the current zoning. The county is planning to work with the developer Six Flags picks to rezone the property for a higher density mixed use.

Mixed use in that location seems highly unlikely to succeed. There are much better locations closer to 495 and Metro that can hardly get investment, so no idea why someone would want to go to the SFA plot.

 

[harry580]

turn the site back into wild life, if that's the future of the park site is

 

[horsesboy]

turn the site back into wild life, if that's the future of the park site is

Leave it in it's current state let nature slowly invade and gove controlled charged accces to visitors. Probably an insurance nightmare but there is a guy in Virginia that runs tours of abandoned places and makes pretty serious money of them cause there is a market for such things.

 

[kmccarthy27]

Mixed use in that location seems highly unlikely to succeed

Agreed you only need to look down the road at the former BLVD @ CAP CTR to see how well that worked out before. Now its a hospital complex, with a movie theatre, Golden Corral and a Chuck E Cheese. That was planned to be so much much more. I loved that place when they first built it up after demolishing the Capital Centre

 

[DH_The_ThemeParkFaniac]

turn the site back into wild life, if that's the future of the park site is

Or Adventure World..

It's still has the coasters

 

[horsesboy]

Guys I have tragic news.


I just saw pictures of the Dippin Dots booths being hauled away. If the Dippin Dots guy has left the property we can't trust any news anymore and all hope is lost.

 

[warfelg]

Guys I have tragic news.


I just saw pictures of the Dippin Dots booths being hauled away. If the Dippin Dots guy has left the property we can trust any news anymore and sll hope is lost.

Great. Where am I going to get my ice cream of the future now.

 

[horsesboy]

Great. Where am I going to get my ice cream of the future now.

Fortunately we live in the future and they are available at most 7-Elevens.

 

[bill s]

No one is lying. That is the current zoning. The county is planning to work with the developer Six Flags picks to rezone the property for a higher density mixed use.

Every (1-2) county representative I've heard said it will not be rezoned. E.g. go back a few pages. It may be beyond their control so it may just be their confidence was misplaced.

 

[Zachary]

Every (1-2) county representative I've heard said it will not be rezoned. E.g. go back a few pages. It may be beyond their control so it may just be their confidence was misplaced.

They said that, but now you have one of the same country reps talking about how she wants the next National Harbor to be built on the land.

They're just politicians politicianing. I'm sure at one point some of them wished a new park would take SFA's place, but when presented dazzling, tax-revenue-filled, overoptimistic promises about huge, multi-use developments, they're not saying no. When presented with Six Flags' almost certain unwilling to sell to a park operator, they're shrugging their shoulders and following the flashy allure of a new shopping and entertainment district—probably with an e-sports arena or movie studio facilities for some reason. This is how these things always seem to go.

Then, in 10 years, when we maybe, actually end up with some single-family tract housing on the site, everyone will look back on how stupid all of this was. Meanwhile, Six Flags will be laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[DH_The_ThemeParkFaniac]

Guys I have tragic news.


I just saw pictures of the Dippin Dots booths being hauled away. If the Dippin Dots guy has left the property we can't trust any news anymore and all hope is lost.

Oh no!

 

[bill s]

There's a gold course neighborhood near me, that would probably work with the environmental restrictions. Maybe also leave a tiny water park for the residents. Viola, mixed use.

 

[horsesboy]

Every (1-2) county representative I've heard said it will not be rezoned. E.g. go back a few pages. It may be beyond their control so it may just be their confidence was misplaced.

It's the same County rep that keeps saying that. She is a also the representative for the district the park sits in which is solidly against rezoning. The vote wpuld be by the board as a whole and most if all of the other board members have been mute on the subject. My believe is outside of the district the want for the increased property tax value will lead to support for rezoning from the members not directly elected in that district.