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Six Flags New Orleans Demolition
FILE - Rides stand at the Six Flags of New Orleans site in an Aug. 18, 2009. (Chris Granger )/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

A former Six Flags park is finally being demolished after Hurricane Katrina's devastation

New Orleans’ former Six Flags theme park, which shuttered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is finally coming down

By AP News
Published - Nov 04, 2024, 07:13 PM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 05:41 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' former Six Flags theme park, which shuttered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is finally coming down.

Demolition is underway at the eastern New Orleans site of the decaying complex of carnival rides and buildings that became a symbol of the 2005 storm’s enduring devastation, The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate reported.

The park opened in 2000 just off Interstate 10 as Jazzland Theme Park, but it went bankrupt in two seasons. Six Flags took over the lease, but then Hurricane Katrina struck, flooding the park and much of the city. The theme park never reopened, and Six Flags eventually went bankrupt. Control of the property then went to the Industrial Development Board of the City of New Orleans, which negotiated an agreement with the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority that gave NORA title transfer ownership of the site.

Smoot Construction, based in New Orleans, was hired to lead the demolition project and has started to dismantle the site’s many unsalvageable structures, developer Troy Henry told the newspaper Monday.

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