When an amusement park closes for good, replacing it can take a decade or more

When an amusement park closes for good, replacing it can take a decade or more

Earlier this year, Six Flags America in Prince George’s County, Maryland, announced it was closing for good, and the company vowed that it would market the 500-acre site for redevelopment in the future. Usually, when that happens, the future takes a long time to arrive. In 2007, an amusement park in the town of Aurora, Ohio, shut down; and in 2016, a nearby lakefront water park considered to be in the boundaries of an adjacent town closed as wel…