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Word that Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville is closing brought a mixed reaction fromWill Koch, president of Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari here.“It’s tough, always sad when another park closes,” Koch said Friday morning. “We know the people (employees) over there.”But he said Holiday World also sees it as an opportunity to draw even more customers from the Louisville area.“We would love to offer our park to their fans and we think we have the capacity,” said Koch.He said while Holiday World’s attendance — just over 1 million annually — has remained fairly flat since 2006, the family-owned park has continued to open new rides and make other improvements and expects corporate picnic business to rebound this year....
...Harold Workman, Ky. Fair Board President, said, “Six Flags removed the Chang rollercoaster ride. They requested they able to remove it through me they requested that under the pretense that they were going to expand the water park and after showing me diagrams and pictures of what they were going to expand and what they were going to add and so on. So, we're a little disappointed in the fact they removed a ride but never really moved on expanding the water park.”He said that at that point, the way the lease is worded makes it sounds like Chang could have belonged to the Fair Board because it is affixed to the ground.Workman says Six Flags wanted to pay no rent for nine years remaining on the lease. The offer also included a share of profits, if there was any.
It's one month before school's out, and there are no signs that the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom property could reopen for the summer.Legal hurdles are in the way -- hurdles that started with a lease dispute and still leave an uncertain future for the Louisville economy and hundreds of potential workers.Walk to the front gate of what used to be Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, and you'll see the "U" is missing from the sign.And "you" likely won't be enjoying a ride or a dip in the pools here any time soon....No one wants to touch anything, until the question of who owns the rides is decided.