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Cypress Gardens Adventure Park (formerly Cypress Gardens) is a theme park near Winter Haven, Florida (about 20 miles east of Lakeland) in the United States. It was conceived and built by Dick and Julie Pope. In the early 1980s they retired and transferred the park on to their son Dick Pope, Jr. Image File history File links Cypress Gardens Adventure Park logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Winter Haven is a city located in Polk County, Florida, and is a very very boring place to live. ... Adventure Parks Group is a company that runs and operates two theme parks in the U.S. states of Florida and Georgia. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... Amusement park is the more generic term for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ... Winter Haven is a city located in Polk County, Florida, and is a very very boring place to live. ... Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. ...

History

In the 1980s book publisher Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich (HBJ) decided to aggressively invest in the amusement business by buying up SeaWorld, Circus World (in 1985 -- later rebuilt as Boardwalk & Baseball), Stars Hall of Fame and Cypress Gardens (in 1985). They got out of the business just as quickly and sold most of the parks to the Anheuser-Busch Corporation in 1989. For the unrelated theme park in Australia, see Sea World. ... Circus World was a theme park built in Polk County, Florida, United States, on the east corner of the intersection of US 27 and Interstate 4. ... Anheuser-Busch NYSE: BUD, the worlds third largest brewing company in volume after InBev and SABMiller, is based in St. ...

Busch was most interested in the SeaWorld parks, so they closed Boardwalk and Baseball immediately. Busch continued to operate Cypress Gardens until April 1, 1995 when a group of the park's managers led by Bill Reynolds purchased the park. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Under Bill Reynolds (president and CEO) the park operated until April 13, 2003. The park was closed due to declining attendance due to the drop in tourism after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack. During this time the park was owned by First Gardens L.C., of which Larry Maxwell was the majority share holder. Maxwell is a Florida developer known for buying property cheaply and developing it with high-density, low-quality dwellings. The intent was to develop the theme park and wetlands into high-density condominiums With a purchase price of less than $24,000 per acre (including the park facilities). and a selling price of about $1,000,000 per acre for developed property, this would have been extremely profitable. However, the news of this proposed development prompted opposition, which soon was organized into a grassroots "Save Cypress Gardens" loosely knit co-op of protest and pressure groups. To continue with their business plan, the developers Lawrence Maxwell and Bill Reynolds used tactics which the protestors considered environmentally. This was done in a race to develop the land before the Florida governor Jeb Bush, with the popular backing of the popular environmental and senior citizens groups, could intervene to preserve the state's first theme park and wetlands habitats. Bulldozers had been used under the cover of darkness to destroy a portion of the wetlands, and the developers were taken to court by the Florida water management district for destroying the wetlands. April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... A condominium is a form of housing tenure. ...

On February 22, 2004, a rather complex deal to save Cypress Gardens was signed. The land was placed on a conservation easement preventing it from development. Kent Buescher's Adventure Parks Group, owner of Wild Adventures in Valdosta, Georgia purchased the park, and it has reopened under the name of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park. February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Adventure Parks Group is a company that runs and operates two theme parks in the U.S. states of Florida and Georgia. ... Wild Adventures theme park is located in Valdosta, Georgia. ... Valdosta is a city in, and the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. ...

Rides and Attractions

Roller coasters

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External links

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