shavethewhales
12-04-2024, 09:06 AM
Here's another (non) update: https://www.oklahoman.com/picture-gallery/business/2024/12/02/american-heartland-theme-park-site-vinita-ok-photos/76414733007/
I'm guessing the court cases are proceeding slowly, especially with the holidays. Probably going to be quite for a few months at least, then some sort of settlement will be made that may or may not spell the complete end of the project. If they do end up proceeding, I predict they will come up with something much smaller than originally envisioned.
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Once filed, they should have just paid the debt and the cases would have been dismissed.
Since they haven't done that, they now have to deal with these ongoing lawsuits and will end up owing court costs and attorney fees.
These are all very ominous signs.
a large-scale RV park with cabins scheduled to open phase one in spring 2025 and a world-class theme park and resort scheduled to open in 2026.
Can't wait for this to be complete next year!
FighttheGoodFight
02-25-2025, 10:08 AM
The amount of people I talked to who said this was going to be the next big thing for Oklahoma was hilarious. Looks like most people on here saw it as at most an RV park and at least nothing. Looks like it is going to be nothing.
shavethewhales
02-25-2025, 11:55 AM
I never heard about any resolution to their liens... I wonder if they still own the property. Could be tied up in court for years at this point. Doubt the old guy who was pushing this whole crazy idea will make it that long. I was hoping they'd get the RV park going at least, then scale down to a smaller attraction that would make more sense. Just give me a frontier city sized theme park on Grand Lake - I think that would do OK in the summer.
I can't think of the last time a developer with an unrealistic, grandiose plan later came to their senses and built something reasonable and worthwhile.
Projects get scaled back and value-engineered all the time, but when you start out so pie-in-the-sky it always turns out the people involved never had any idea what they were doing.
Huge development is much more than just a guy having money.