Six Flags to shut one other park months after asserting the closure of its Maryland location | EUROtoday

Six Flags is shutting down one other theme park after asserting that it’ll shut a location in Maryland.

The theme park large introduced that it plans to shut its Great America park in California on the finish of its 2027 season, a full yr earlier than its lease on the land ends. The announcement was made throughout a current buyers’ assembly, in response to PEOPLE.

“Unless we determine to increase, and train one in every of our choices to increase that lease, that park’s final yr with out that extension can be after the ‘27 season,” Six Flags Chief Financial Officer Brian Witherow told PEOPLE.

He said that Great America, located in Santa Clara, California, and Six Flags America in Bowie, Maryland, were “very low on the ranking of margins.”

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Six Flags Great America began 50 years ago under the name Marriott’s Great Adventure, and had several owners in the years since, including Paramount and Cedar Fair, which went on to merge with Six Flags in 2024.

Great America was originally built on public land, but Cedar Fair purchased the site in 2019 and later sold it to a real estate firm, Prologis, in 2022.

Prologis bought the land for $310 million and agreed to let the park stay at the site until the lease ended in June 2028. That agreement came with the potential for a five-year extension by Six Flags. At the time of the sale, Cedar Fair announced it planned to close the park at the end of its lease.

Prologis has not announced what may replace the theme park once it is closed and its rides and attractions disassembled.

“We’re centered on figuring out and partnering with planning and design specialists to assist us create a grasp plan for the property, working with the town and group alongside the best way,” the corporate instructed the Los Angeles Times in January.

Six Flags America in Maryland will shut on the finish of its 2025 season, in response to the corporate.

“As a part of our complete overview of our park portfolio, now we have decided that Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor will not be a strategic match with the corporate’s long-term development plan,” CEO Richard A. Zimmerman stated in an announcement.

That web site will likely be bought for redevelopment.