Theme park giant Six Flags Entertainment will merge with Cedar Fair in a massive merger that will create a $3.4 billion amusement park behemoth with parks in 17 states as well as Mexico and Canada. Two of the new company’s (to still be called Six Flags) premier parks are here in in the Peach State, with Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell and Six Flags White Water in Marietta. The move is expected to streamline operations and allow for increased investments in visitor experience – necessary since amusement park attendance numbers have had a tough time bouncing back since COVID. The move has Georgia’s two parks RISING…
State Farm Arena a box office draw
Downtown Atlanta’s State Farm Arena is quite the box office draw. How big? From October to to March, State Farm brought in $76.2 million across 60 events, making it the third-highest grossing venue in the entire nation, behind only New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Sphere in Las Vegas, and fifth globally. Nearly 600,000 visitors took in performances from superstars ranging from Blake Shelton to Usher, plus Hawks games and events like WWE Raw. State Farm’s status as one of the premier performance venues in the world is RISING…
