told Brooklyn Paper. The attraction is located at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park and sits directly next to its eponymous star attraction, which turned 101 this year.“We got the best of the old and the best of the new,” Dennis Vourderis, a member of the family that owns and operates the park, said of the adjacent rides’ age difference.
The Vourderis family has owned and operated the park since 1983, and bought the plot of land that the Phoenix now sits on in 2019.
But they weren’t sure what to build on it until they visited Dolly Parton’s Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, and were inspired by a coaster there. “We decided to pull the trigger on” building the Phoenix, Vourderis said. “And then unfortunately the pandemic happened.” The call.
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