Remember the Water Park that Zamperla was proposing a year or 2 ago, right next to the New Thunderbolt? That's Bullard's land and now it looks like the city may be looking to take it through eminent domain
NY Post excerpt -
Frustrated by stubborn Coney Island landowners, the de Blasio
administration plans to seize property under the city’s rarely used
power of eminent domain in order to spur long-stalled economic
development in the People’s Playground, The Post has learned.
The Parks Department plans to create new amusements and other
amenities by grabbing up three vacant beachfront sites through
condemnation proceedings — including a 60,000-square-foot tract that
once housed the original Thunderbolt roller coaster immortalized in
Woody Allen’s 1977 film “Annie Hall,” officials said.
It’s unclear what type of attractions the city wants to bring to
these sites, which together total 75,000 square feet and also include
smaller tracts off the Boardwalk on West 12th Street and on West 23rd
Street.
City officials said they’re turning to eminent domain because they’ve
been unable to cut “fair-market” deals with the property owners after
exhaustive efforts.
http://nypost.com/2015/09/28/city-to-seize-and-rebuild-coney-island-property-through-eminent-domain/
Here is the story from March 2014 concerning the proposed Water Park
http://coneyrocks.blogspot.com/2014/03/brooklyn-paper-more-on-water-park.html
The New Coney Island - Brooklyn's Times Square by the Sea
Monday, September 28, 2015
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Things are heating up Coney / Brighton A Sea Change for Brighton Beach: Property prices are soaring in the waterside enclave known as ‘Little Odessa’
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-sea-change-for-brighton-beach-1443234849
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