There has been some activity in the past few months; saw a new building going up near the 2 rides that are visible from the highway Lots of cars were parked and workers on the roof of the building going up.
i drive by here every day for work and always wondered what was going on. i thought it was a storage space for those traveling carnival rides lol. great info and i like the other vids too. keep it up!
I pass by this on the way to Galveston. I always thought it was to close to the coast & hurricanes. The trains I think are the old ones from Herman Park train ride.
Do you see all that standing water? I would not be surprised to find out that environmental studies were not strict enough and there became problems with retention ponds, which can be expensive engineering headaches, but are absolutely necessary for areas this close to the Gulf of Mexico.
Bad grading design for sure. It should drain into the retention pond through area drains and general slopes/channel. To be fair, this is still under construction, but I don't see where they have made allowances for drainage.
There's a reservoir uphill of the amusement park land. Dickinson 2 miles away flooded to 10 ft deep last time. This is a bad place to build it's the low area of a flat county. Maybe
That's really interesting. One note, I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that Playland was developed into AstroWorld. It was a completely separate park that ran along the side of South Main across from where Gaido's was. The two parks were not connected in any way. I think Playland closed because of declining attendance, and problems with some of their guests. In fact, I don't even know for certain that the roller coaster was open in the last few years of the park's operation.
@@ScottDaileyTH-cam Facebook's Retro Houston group has a nice article on Playland today, if you are interested in taking a look. Thanks for all the great footage you've shot too. The Westbury Square one is great. I spent a lot of my youth at some of their specialty shops.
You're right. The two parks were separate. However, Playland's entrance was on south Main, but the park ran along Murworth. The owners sold part of the land to someone that built a dinner theatre. Playland had to close the John Miller designed roller coaster as they chopped off about a third of the ride, but they added a Wild Mouse by Schiff to still have a coaster. Playland, other than having John Miller's last coaster was nothing but a gravel lot with carnival rides, adult and kiddy style. When Astroworld opened, Playland was pretty much done for. It lasted a few years but with the signature wood coaster closed, there was no reason to go there. Even the Wild Mouse was a portable model! Meanwhile, Playland Park in San Antonio was a very nice regional park that lasted through the 1980 season. When Henry Cisneros was elected mayor of SA, the owner thought the city was going to hell in a handbasket, so he closed his park. Fortunately, Knoebel's Grove in PA, bought the Rocket roller coaster and moved it to PA, where it remains one of the best rated woodies in the world. It was renamed the Phoenix.
I drive by it when I drive to and from work. There is some work being done on the property. I remember when the rendering at 2:00 came out. It looks nothing like that in-person. Pretty disappointing looking at it when it's roughly eight years late on opening. Not sure how the city has put up with it. I'll give it a year - if it opens.
Its sad, a lot of ambitious businessmen get caught up in the delerium of building a theme park but way way way underestimate the cost of getting it off the ground. Too many think they can pull it off with $50 to 100 million, to find out out, a small park with 4 full size coasters, 2 kiddie ones, a mix of about 30 rides with enough restaurants, games and bathrooms, customer service, parking lots, base infrastructure and marketing will run you over $250 million easy. Then just as soon as they break ground, here come the tax increases.
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There has been some activity in the past few months; saw a new building going up near the 2 rides that are visible from the highway
Lots of cars were parked and workers on the roof of the building going up.
i drive by here every day for work and always wondered what was going on. i thought it was a storage space for those traveling carnival rides lol.
great info and i like the other vids too. keep it up!
I pass by this on the way to Galveston. I always thought it was to close to the coast & hurricanes. The trains I think are the old ones from Herman Park train ride.
Do you see all that standing water? I would not be surprised to find out that environmental studies were not strict enough and there became problems with retention ponds, which can be expensive engineering headaches, but are absolutely necessary for areas this close to the Gulf of Mexico.
Bad grading design for sure. It should drain into the retention pond through area drains and general slopes/channel. To be fair, this is still under construction, but I don't see where they have made allowances for drainage.
There's a reservoir uphill of the amusement park land. Dickinson 2 miles away flooded to 10 ft deep last time. This is a bad place to build it's the low area of a flat county. Maybe
That's really interesting. One note, I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that Playland was developed into AstroWorld. It was a completely separate park that ran along the side of South Main across from where Gaido's was. The two parks were not connected in any way.
I think Playland closed because of declining attendance, and problems with some of their guests. In fact, I don't even know for certain that the roller coaster was open in the last few years of the park's operation.
Thank you for clarifying this. I had thought that Astroworld was a redevelopment of the Playland site but this makes more sense.
@@ScottDaileyTH-cam Facebook's Retro Houston group has a nice article on Playland today, if you are interested in taking a look. Thanks for all the great footage you've shot too. The Westbury Square one is great. I spent a lot of my youth at some of their specialty shops.
@@PixSmith01 Checking it out right now! Thank you!
You're right. The two parks were separate.
However, Playland's entrance was on south Main, but the park ran along Murworth. The owners sold part of the land to someone that built a dinner theatre. Playland had to close the John Miller designed roller coaster as they chopped off about a third of the ride, but they added a Wild Mouse by Schiff to still have a coaster.
Playland, other than having John Miller's last coaster was nothing but a gravel lot with carnival rides, adult and kiddy style.
When Astroworld opened, Playland was pretty much done for.
It lasted a few years but with the signature wood coaster closed, there was no reason to go there. Even the Wild Mouse was a portable model!
Meanwhile, Playland Park in San Antonio was a very nice regional park that lasted through the 1980 season. When Henry Cisneros was elected mayor of SA, the owner thought the city was going to hell in a handbasket, so he closed his park.
Fortunately, Knoebel's Grove in PA, bought the Rocket roller coaster and moved it to PA, where it remains one of the best rated woodies in the world. It was renamed the Phoenix.
I recently been hauling off dirt for a contractor there they are slowly building &progressing the site 👍🏽
I remember going to Playland Park as a child and loved it.
Thanks for the interesting and informative video, as always!
Interesting history. Thanks for sharing.
Good, information. Do you have a update coming?
Keep us posted, most of us didn't know about this theme park, only Kemah and the up coming Grand texas theme park
I worked at the outlet for the first few years of its opening, still live in the area, & as of January 2023, there’s still nothing 😂
I can't say I'm surprised!!
I love all this legal wrangling BS over things like amusement parks.
LOL 2:30 Cheryl thats you! 😆
Yea this is that park we drove by on the way to Galveston. This is a bummer.
I drive by it when I drive to and from work. There is some work being done on the property. I remember when the rendering at 2:00 came out. It looks nothing like that in-person. Pretty disappointing looking at it when it's roughly eight years late on opening. Not sure how the city has put up with it. I'll give it a year - if it opens.
Keep us updated please
Its sad, a lot of ambitious businessmen get caught up in the delerium of building a theme park but way way way underestimate the cost of getting it off the ground. Too many think they can pull it off with $50 to 100 million, to find out out, a small park with 4 full size coasters, 2 kiddie ones, a mix of about 30 rides with enough restaurants, games and bathrooms, customer service, parking lots, base infrastructure and marketing will run you over $250 million easy.
Then just as soon as they break ground, here come the tax increases.
I saw this video again so your saying the city won't let them build a theme park there?
no i think they will but they ran out of money or something
Didn't it flood over there during Harvey?
I'm not sure. I don't think the outlet mall flooded.
Hopefully they will have enough land room to expand
Bro wanted a theme park but got in trouble from not paying the loan people back. 💀
I always past by it after shopping at tanger and yep, still absolutely nothing, always pass by that stupid tree with a face (no hate to the tree)
This is similar to the dinopark up in Cleveland
Anything new?
I drove by on Saturday and it looks the same with more weeds growing!
Why cannot someone buy it
you probably could!
If you build it... They will come, or not.
Sad
2024 and still ain’t open
What went wrong? Your building in Texas that what went wrong.
You're, not your
@@seanlewis1148 correction "you built in Texas" 🖕
@@alejandrocantu4652 Are your feelings hurt because you can't spell, or don't know how to use proper grammar, that you have to give an improper jester?
@@seanlewis1148 A missing comma after "Texas" is neither a spelling or grammar error, but a of punctuation. It you wish to play the school marm. That speak more of your issue than mine. 🙈🙉🙊