Posted Mar 11, 2014, 8:42 PM
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http://observer.com/2014/03/slip-sli...-coney-island/
Slip & Slide: Developers Hint at Plans for Water Park in Coney Island
City Council: Say what?
By Anna Perfecto Canlas
3/11/14
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Something wetter than the mermaid parade might be coming to Coney Island.
Zamperla, the Italian company that operates the tilt-a-whirls and roller coasters of Luna Park, are looking to build a water park on five parcels of land from Surf Avenue to the Boardwalk, according to the Brooklyn Daily.
This stretch of land was once home to the Thunderbolt, a wooden roller coaster in the 1920s to the 1980s, reincarnated as a spanking new steel loop-dee-loop slated to open on May 22, also operated by Zamperla.
“It’s in the very primary stages, we don’t want to mention anything yet,” Valerio Ferrari, president of Zamperla’s Central Amusements International, told the paper.
CEO Alberto Zamperla said that he is negotiating with Jasmine Bullard, daughter of late Surf Avenue property owner Horace Bullard.
The caveat is whether the state won’t pour cold water on the project, as it has done in the past. In 2011, plans to install inflatable water slides fell through when its proponent, Party Magic USA, couldn’t get permits from the State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Ian Fried of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which broke ground on the new Thunderbolt as part of its $150 million revitalization plan for Coney Island, told the Observer that they are not involved in the creation of the water park. He, however, clarified that ”the new Thunderbolt, not a water park, is being built on the site of the old Thunderbolt.”
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http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories...k_2014_11.html
Company seeks to bring splish-splashing fun to former Thunderbolt parcel
By Will Bredderman
March 11, 2014
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Italian-born amusement tycoon Alberto Zamperla said that he is in negotiations with Jasmine Bullard, daughter of the late Sodom by the Sea land baron Horace Bullard, to construct a slippery funzone on five parcels stretching from Surf Avenue to the Boardwalk.
Zamperla said part of his excitement to develop the site comes from his admiration for Horace Bullard’s failed dream to resurrect Coney Island in the 1980s.
“I have great respect for their family,” said Zamperla, adding that he keeps a copy of Bullard’s old blueprints for a new Luna Park in his office.
Zamperla’s company is already working on a new Thunderbolt rollercoaster in the lot next door to where the old one stood from 1925 until 2000 — when the Giuliani administration ordered the derelict ride torn down in a pre-dawn demolition that a federal judge later declared illegal.
Details on the waterpark deal are still sketchy.
“It’s in the very primary stages, we don’t want to mention anything yet,” said Valerio Ferrari, president of Central Amusements International, the Zamperla subsidiary which operates its attractions in Coney.
But real estate experts pointed out that the Bullard property includes rights to build concessions and a grand entryway along the Boardwalk.
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