FINALLY, Schlitterbahn might FINALLY get approved for Fort Lauderdale.http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-fort-lauderdale-schlitterbahn-20140522,0,5873024.story
Might be going to the meeting discussing it on Thursday. I will try and gather as much information as i can.
So, I read an article in the local paper on what's causing the hold up. It's a long drawn out story, but it boils down to the owners of Rapids Water Park in Rivera Beach (a dump IMO), holding up the approval in court for some legal reason. Which in reality is just Rapids doing everything in their power to delay and stop this park from being built. They know once it's opened that they will lose a LOT of business. Hopefully, they can get passed this pesky hurdle and start building this summer. Their lease officially starts in July.
I was think about this last weekend actually, you would think the bigger competition for the Rapids would be all these local municipalities opening up their own waterpark and stealing away a lot of the local families. For instance, City of Palm Beach Gardens where I live has an aquatic center with an Olympic size lap pool, another olympic size general pool with 3 smaller size slides, rock wall and diving board, a smaller size kids splash castle thing and then a splash pad with fountains, and for residents cost us $3.00 to get in so seriously for a full day of fun is beyond worth the money. Compare that to the Rapids at $47 on the weekends then $20 to park its nowhere near as affordable for families. Sure these local parks don't have the big slides and everything but its something I know us as a family could do often over the summer.
I would imagine it will lose some business with places like the Broward County schools and camps that drive up here.
I wonder how much they were paid off by Rapids water park's owners.
Such a shame...
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