Mayor Mike Coffman confirms that the amusement park is looking at a site in Colorado's third-largest city when it leaves Denver.
Elitch Gardens is looking for a new home, and Aurora is the only name known to be on the list.With its wide-open plains stretching east of town — right next to Denver International Airport — Aurora offers what few other places in the metro area can right now: raw, undeveloped land that's easy for both tourists and locals to access.
In a July 18 interview, however, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman said that Revesco has been taking a hard look at Colorado's third-biggest city, and added that he'd already been in discussions with Elitch Gardens reps about being their future host. Although"the Gaylord really wants to talk about it," the resort still has reservations about the idea, according to Coffman. Much of the final say falls on the Gaylord, but it's apparently more thrilled with the idea of bringing another big attraction to Aurora because it's year-round and shares a similar market.
acknowledging that"it would be nice to have some destination-type venues" in the city, regardless of where they go. Elitch Gardens moved to the Central Platte River Valley in 1994. When it moved to the largely undeveloped site, it became the first amusement park built in an urban area in the U.S. in three decades."Elitch's has been there for almost thirty years now, and it's probably time for a new and improved Elitch's," Duggan explains."Given the site's current location, there is a higher and better use for that land in the long term.
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