new off site dorms?

My understanding is that on his initial tour of Cedar Point Matt Ouimet was actually shocked and upset by what he found with employee housing. It comes as no great surprise that this was a significant priority for him even when it was considered a nuisance to his predecessor.

It is only a matter of time for Cedars and Gold dorms...both of which should have come down 20 years ago...30 even. When I was at the park I was shocked with how tight it is near the Luminosity stage and removal of Cedars and a subsequent shifting of Perimeter Road will help tremendously.

If any of the Breakers work includes renovations to the Rotunda area then that, combined with eventual closing of Cedars and Gold might be the end of employee housing on the peninsula.

Cool, hopefully that will free up some room for some new rides.

i think the cedars will go this off season because it would free up a lot of room for the blue streak midway to be connected to the marina entrence pathway if perimeter road gets re routed around the cedars old footprint. if the tear down the golds first there isnt really any room for a new attraction unless the tear down the buildings surounding it.

The Breakers needs more parking. When they tear down the Gold Dorms, they will enlarge the Breakers parking lot. I believe that will happen this winter.

anthony battaglia said:
i think the cedars will go this off season...

Never mind the fact that construction on the new dorm hasn't even been started yet.

They'll have giant sleeping bag parties where it stood :P

anthony battaglia said:
i think the cedars will go this off season because it would free up a lot of room for the blue streak midway

Like Dj said, the new dorms have to be built first so the employees have somewhere to live. This is why you'll probably see the Cedars torn down towards the end of 2014, probably for the 2015 project which will probably extend over to the bay/marina.

The thing is, just because something is historic doesn't mean it was necessarily well-made or built to last. Things were built on the cheap back then too, and as far as I can tell Cedars definitely falls under those categories.

It's like if anybody's ever been to Chincoteague, VA why a lot of the historic houses downtown are actually kind of crappy houses. They were never built to be impressive vacation homes, they were built to be cheap, pragmatic worker housing.

That's good that the park would move the dorm off-site to free up more spaces for new rides. That will help the park to fit in more rides since the space is limited by waters on three sides of the land.