Cantrell’s chosen developer for the 227-acre site, Bayou Phoenix, says the matter should be resolved within two weeks.

The 227-acre theme park never reopened, and Six Flags declared bankruptcy in 2009. Control of the property then went to the Industrial Development Board of the City of New Orleans, which ...

Months after signing a lease for the site that was formerly Six Flags New Orleans, the developer is ... restoration or protection elsewhere in a Louisiana watershed. There could be some help ...

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING FROM THE NEW ORLEANS EAST COMMUNITY. THE OLD SIX FLAGS HAS BEEN ABANDONED FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS POST-KATRINA AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY SAY THAT ...

The theme park never reopened, and Six Flags eventually went bankrupt. Control of the property then went to the Industrial Development Board of the City of New Orleans, which negotiated an ...

The Six Flags amusement park was flooded and abandoned after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now it’s finally being torn down. Plans are underway to develop the site in a project called Bayou Phoenix.

An alligator is seen inside the abandoned Six Flags Jazzland in New Orleans on June 6, 2024. Photo: Emily Kask/Washington ...

THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, NEW AT NOON, THE LONG AWAITED DEMOLITION OF SIX FLAGS IN NEW ORLEANS EAST WILL HALTED AND WE ARE NOW LEARNING IT’S BECAUSE THE CONTRACTOR DIDN’T HAVE THE PROPER LICENSING.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans' former Six Flags theme park, which shuttered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is finally coming down. Demolition is underway at the eastern New Orleans site of the ...

A dispute over scrap metal is complicating the already stalled demolition of the former Six Flags park in New Orleans East, ...

Demolition of the Six Flags in New Orleans was put on pause after the city learned that the hired demolition contractor lacks specialty certification in dismantling and rigging. The park ...

Before Hurricane Katrina hammered the Gulf Coast in 2005, killing almost 1,400 people and destroying millions of dollars worth of property, there was a Six Flags just outside New Orleans.