Vegas’ Most Cursed Land: 20 Years of Failure and Broken Dreams

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How did a beloved Las Vegas water park become a cursed $5 billion hole in the ground? This is the unbelievable story of Wet 'n Wild Las Vegas — from its glory days drawing 500,000 visitors annually with the terrifying Der Stuka slide and Bomb Bay capsule to the tragic drowning of nine-year-old Unique Hall in 1997, to its heartbreaking closure in 2004. But that's just the beginning. For 20 years, this prime 27-acre Strip location became a graveyard of broken dreams: Palace of the Sea, the Crown Las Vegas $5B skyscraper that never happened, and Jackie Robinson's All Net Resort that burned through a decade of extensions and phantom financing before collapsing in 2023. The bitter irony? A new Wet 'n Wild opened 12 miles away and thrived. This is the story of Vegas development dysfunction, where greed met incompetence on one of the city's most valuable properties — and lost.

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