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According to the Guadalajara Reporter, there are new plans to remove the Cristiania Park in Chapala to build a new Amusement Park complete with roller coasters.  There are also plans in the making for a botanical garden, a lake museum and a cool futuristic looking pier off of the Chapala malecon more than likely coming off where the Cruise Ship used to dock next to the Palapa del Guayabo Restaurant.

http://www.theguadalajarareporter.com/index.php/news/news/lake-chapala/47822-chapala-lays-out-grand-plan-for-sweeping-transformation

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Well, I picture them clearing the area of all the old and largest trees, prepping the area and building the base for the roller coaster and then the money runs out......

According to the article, it states that a botanical garden will be built........well turn Cristiania Park into the botanical garden.  Cristiania Park could never be viable as a location for an amusement park, too many well to do houses in close proximity to that strip and the park is way too small to build a decent amusement park.  If they feel the need and have boucoups of expendable money, the logical place would be up the road past the train station outside of town, there is plenty of open farm land that they can purchase for that purpose with plenty of space for expansion and growth.  But considering the fact that Guadalajara is the second largest city in Mexico, and all they have is Selva Magica across from the zoo.  Selva Magica is decent but it is no Six Flags or Kings Dominion!  All I am saying is that if a world class park can´t be built in the second largest city of Mexico, why even try in the little fisherman village of Chapala!  If they must build something cool to revamp the tourism market, why not clean up the lake to a pristine condition, and perhaps if lots of money is left, built a state of the art teleferico starting in the Cristiania Botanical Gardens and up to el Cerro de San Miguel.  Clean that area up and redo the pathways leading up and down the hill and station some of their tourist police up there.  Building an amusement park in that location would destroy the nicest green area for the public that is on the north shore, way too many trees have been cut down recently in Chapala as it is.

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Funny that is exactly what we just said with my husband. They will manage to remove the park and then nothing will happen or very little and there will be one less park,, We walk in the park and it is a nice place to walk around, they could fix up the pool area do more areas with benches and have more games for kid, a botanical garden would be nice too but a useless pier with fountains and  ..this is not Dubai...It also requires maintenence which not of their strong point.  An amusement park would be another blight on the area and would cause major traffic problems

Restauring the lake would be a big plus as well . 

 

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Guest bennie2

thry have been removing parks in guad & other places in mex for years. they also dont care about the expensive houses as those people may sell. then the developers can demolish them like they did in guad. if they dont sell than it becomes eminent domain. there were supposed to be amusment parks built all along he lake many years ago. the projects were canceled. now they are back. 

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37 minutes ago, Mainecoons said:

This is about as bad as it gets and we should all offer whatever support we can to our neighbors in Chapala who are fighting it.

You are fighting it, aren't you?

Is there a group officially fighting it?  Please give reference if you know of one.

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Certain developers will get large cash deposits and then if it isnt built they will keep the deposits without any work being done. 

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they took peoples land &houses (& 100s of trees) in SA for walmarts.(so they can sell cheap crap from china). see how that went? 95% of guad was demolished over the 60 yr period, even mansions churches parks ect. thats what they do. they put highways malls build cheap housing, ugly generic un livable mess. leon was demolished as well. national geographic wrote an interesting artical. these were 2 major colonial cities. good luck w/chapala. its called transnational global oneword developement. a few elites get rich. gov says its good for you. right....the second biggest scam of the century.

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