Theme Park and Animal Kingdom Planned for Bonifay

[Smiling JOe]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Theme Park and Animal Kingdom Planned for Bonifay - [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]see Ch 13 link to news story released this morning.

[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Bonifay, FL - Officials with the economic development council in Holmes County say Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom's Jim Fowler is planning to open an animal park in Bonifay in the very near future....

[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]While declining to comment on details regarding a planned music theme park also in the area, officials say they'll yield any comments at this time to the developer of that attraction....

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Is that the sound of footprints running to buy property in the small town of Bonifay?
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[Kurt]

I know some folks that bought 40 acres there recently to "get away from it all". :shock:

 

[InletBchDweller]

Thanks for the info...now rumors about Disney can halt!!!

 

[aquaticbiology]

and another fine place goes straight to hell

i give up

 

[Smiling JOe]

and another fine place goes straight to hell

i give up

So you really like Bonifay, eh?

 

[Rudyjohn]

So you really like Bonifay, eh?

I was just going to ask the same thing. Have you ever been to Bonifay, aquaticbiology? There is nothing that could make it any worse than it already is, imo.

 

[aquaticbiology]

oh it won't be in the city, it will be in the undeveloped areas surrounding the city

tons of unspoiled scrub, a few horses, and only a few dozen rednecks living there (i assume they're putting it somewhere in between pine log 'north' / prosperity and the actual city of bonifay), probably right on 79, either just above or below i-10, probably above and they'll be draining the bog to build their mousetrap

it stinks! soon there will be no forest left and the sun will just reflect off everything, heating up the atmosphere even more, and there will be no oxygen producing trees, and there will be no fish in the rivers because all the insects they eventually feed on will all die, then the animals will die too since there won't be any fish to eat, then we're next

all development sucks, especially if they drain a natural wetland to do it

holmes county wants a technical school so their kids can work for the alabama japanese automakers and the county is willing to sell their soul, and eveybody else's, to anybody, in order to get it

first the picnic area, now the bog, then the 'influx of capital' that will rot the heart out of the county

(falls off soapbox)

 

[Sally]

Silly me. I thought all of NW Fla was beautiful. I stand corrected. :roll:

 

[SHELLY]

it stinks! soon there will be no forest left and the sun will just reflect off everything, heating up the atmosphere even more, and there will be no oxygen producing trees, and there will be no fish in the rivers because all the insects they eventually feed on will all die, then the animals will die too since there won't be any fish to eat, then we're next

I beg to differ!!...they'll tear up the trees and drain the bogs BUT they'll replace the trees with some whacky palms and the bogs with one of those "Whammo Slip 'n Slide Rivers" (like that new Mediterranean-themed development) and ship in their own animals--ya know, elephants, rhinos, chimps, etc. (the insects ain't goin' nowhere). Fork over $50-per-head and prepare to be amazed!

 

[Camp Creek Kid]

Holmes County to Get Theme Park, Too


By Christopher Mitchell (cmitchell@wmbb.com)
News 13 On Your Side
Friday, June 2, 2006



Bonifay, FL - Jim Fowler of Mutual of Omaha's wild Kingdom series just bought 790 acres of land just outside Bonifay this week. He's now developing an animal park on the land that's going to become a major tourist destination on the Florida panhandle. But, according to the developer, Barbara Farris of Blue Doldphin II, the Jim Fowler safari-type park is only a small part of all that's planned that will change the face of Bonifay forever.

Farris tells News 13 while point to a rendering of the park plans that a large theme park will be built next door to the animal park. "We're talking about 3 to 4 years from now when a celebrity coast theme park in this region (next to the animal park)" will be built. She says the park will include amusement rides and have different sections themed after different celebrities. An amphitheatre is also part of the plan, large enough to accommodate performances by the biggest singers and entertainers in the performing industry.

Groundbreaking for the Jim Fowler park is scheduled in two years once all the permits are in place. Farris says this is phase one of the three phase development plan. The second phase will be the large amphitheatre and third is the celebrity theme park. She says the development will include affordable housing developments and numerous shopping venues. The Jim Fowler safari-type park is scheduled to be complete in five years.