Back in June, we heard that Six Flags was planning to sell or close several of its properties, including Houston's Splashtown. And sure enough, the company is selling Splashtown and six other parks in a $312 million deal. The parks' new owner, PARC 7F-Operations Corp. of Jacksonville, Fla., will immediately sell them to CNL Income Properties, then will lease them from CNL. Whatever.
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First Six Flags shut down AstroWorld, and now it's talking about closing Splashtown, too. It makes us wonder: Why doesn't Six Flags want Houstonians to have fun?
Houstonians swarmed to AstroWorld this weekend to pick over the closed amusement park's treasures — and they came away with really expensive tchotchkes. One couple that met in 1973 near the tiny railroad in the park paid $500 for a railroad-crossing sign. Others shelled out $300 or $400 for directional signs, and one woman gave a whopping $1,800 for the sign that warned people that Greezed Lightnin' involved "high speeds, steep drops, inverted loops...
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