Finally made it out to the park for the first time this year on Sunday for a few hours. Posted some photos on our FB page of the two construction sites.
It's interesting to see what they are doing with the burned area, but sure wish they hadn't taken out the cool entrance archways for AP and Wildfire. That was some cool theming that I doubt will come back. The loss of trees is always concerning too... the area is so much more open now where there used to be a patch of woods around the waterfall. It will be good to have some new food stands and the furniture factory back though.
The facade work continues on the FITH replacement. Looks interesting so far - I'm sure it will match FL much more than the original though. It's going to be clean and bright, not rough rustic like old SDC. I don't really care about that though, just an observation on different architectural styles throughout the park.
The building is still empty, and all the whispers are pointing to a massive delay in getting parts delivered to the park, so all we are waiting for is the official confirmation at the end of the month that it isn't coming next year after all.
The parking projects are going at full tilt though. The new land acquisition is already a massive satellite parking lot that was in use on Saturday. Looks like something is under construction on the other side of the street as well? Word on the street is that some sort of land clearing is taking place there today as well, so I doubt those half built mcmansions are long for this world. I also noticed that some of the old boneyard area along 76 next to the park has been cleared out and has a bulldozer on it. The park also recently acquired the old Uncle Ike's post office property (hence why the historic post office was moved to SOTH). I'll bet we see a new employee parking lot built this off-season in this area.
