Mark Park

The Arco Areana site might work but then you have the problem with building moratorium (flood basin) and neighbor opposition. There is a plan to build a light rail line connecting that site with the airport and downtown so that would be a plus. But funding is still a problem and I don't see Sacramento ever allowing a full-scale casino in the city limits.

But isn't part of the funding going to come from the casino, rv park and other resort amenities? The problem with Sacramento is that it's already pretty urban and the land is more expensive. They would have a lot more space for the money to work with in Tracy. As for there not being a successful regional park added in 30 years - I think that has to do with the industry. Six Flags /Cedar Point type parks have only so much appeal and that model has dominated. There is still a desire for immersive all-ages theme parks like US and Disney IF done right. The Hard Rock park was doomed from the start because the theme has limited appeal and it wasn't done particuarlly well. And yet it was built in a big tourist area - which seems to support my arguement that the park does not need to be in place people want to go. In fact, you want people to go to your theme park/resort not the town. That's the whole point.

The arguement that people in the BA don't go to the Valley so a theme park can't work in Tracy has to about the lamest one I've heard. How many people in LA went to the orange groves in Anaheim before Disneyland was built? Do you realize tha OC had a lot less population in the 1950's than the Central Valley has today? Now add the BA & Sacramento population and you've got a much larger market than Portland or even Houston. As far as the other No.Cal parks - Great America is OK but is too far away from the Sacramento market in the middle of traffic land and offers to little and as someone else has said Sacramentans are more likely to head to the So Cal parks instead. And Six Flags is so ghetto, boring and overpriced now that nobody I know ever goes there. So if they could build a thrill/family theme park and resort in Tracy in just might work.