'Heartbreaking': Fresno's Playland is permanently closing, management say

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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno's Playland volition beryllium closing its doors everlastingly by the extremity of the month.

The Executive Director for Storyland Inc., Cindy L. Lee confirmed to YourCentralValley.com that the parkland volition adjacent by March 31.

According to Lee, the committee was fixed announcement by the parks' vendor Helm and Sons astir the closure.

This announcement isn't the archetypal clip the amusement parkland has announced it volition beryllium closing— successful January 2024, the parkland posted connected societal media saying they were closing their doors forever. The parkland was saved from imperishable closure aboriginal that period aft a last-minute woody with its neighbour Storyland.

At the time, Storyland agreed to springiness the parkland the wealth it needed to enactment open.

The parkland has been unfastened for implicit sixty years and brought family-friendly amusive to Fresno successful that time. In a statement, Fresno's Mayor, Jerry Dyer says helium has his ain fond memories of the parkland and that it was much than conscionable an amusement park.

"It was a peculiar portion of Fresno's history, woven into the experiences of countless families. That's wherefore its closure is heartbreaking," Dyer said.

Dyer referenced successful the connection that erstwhile Playland reopened successful June of 2023 nether caller management, the fiscal difficulties tied to attendance near the existent owners incapable to prolong operations.

He says the communicative for the beloved parkland isn't implicit and they are hopeful idiosyncratic successful the aboriginal volition admit the park's potential.

The City of Fresno volition enactment with our assemblage spouse to research possibilities for the future.

Playland itself did not supply the crushed for this closure announcement.