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/ August 29, 2026
United Parks & Resorts Inc. is the Orlando, Florida-based company that owns and operates SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Sesame Place, Aquatica, Discovery Cove, Water Country USA, and Adventure Island. Its roots trace back to 1959, when Anheuser-Busch opened the original Busch Gardens in Tampa, and to
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/ August 29, 2026
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation — sometimes written as Six Flags Entertainment Corp, Six Flags Corporation, or just 6 Flags Entertainment — is the publicly traded company (NYSE: FUN) that owns and operates the Six Flags chain of amusement and water parks across North America. The
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/ August 29, 2026
Arrow Dynamics was an American roller coaster manufacturer whose engineering breakthroughs defined the modern steel coaster industry. Tracing its roots to Arrow Development, founded in Mountain View, California in 1946 by Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon, the company reorganized under the Arrow Dynamics name in
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/ August 29, 2026
Zierer Karussell- und Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is a German amusement ride manufacturer headquartered in Deggendorf, Bavaria. Founded in 1930, the company began by building wooden living wagons and market stalls for traveling showmen before evolving into one of Europe’s most prolific coaster builders.
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/ August 29, 2026
Rocky Mountain Construction, known throughout the industry simply as RMC, is an American roller coaster manufacturer founded in 2001 by Fred Grubb and Suanne Dedmon and headquartered in Hayden, Idaho. What began as a company doing maintenance and construction work for amusement parks reinvented itself
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/ August 29, 2026
Ellerbe Becket began in 1909 as a small St. Paul, Minnesota practice called Ellerbe & Co., founded by Franklin Ellerbe and built on decades of healthcare and institutional work for clients like the Mayo Clinic. The firm stayed employee-owned after Thomas Ellerbe’s son took the
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/ August 29, 2026
Osborn Engineering was a Cleveland, Ohio firm that, in the early 20th century, quietly became the most prolific stadium designer in American sports history. Founded on July 1, 1892 by structural engineer Frank C. Osborn, the company started out building bridges and industrial steel structures
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/ August 29, 2026
MANICA Architecture is a sports and entertainment venue design firm founded in 2007 by David Manica and headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas, with an additional office in London. Before starting his own practice, David Manica worked at HOK Sport, where he served as lead designer
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/ August 29, 2026
HNTB is an American architecture and civil engineering firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with roots going back to 1914. Today it ranks among the top twenty architecture and engineering firms in the United States, and its dedicated sports architecture practice is one of the
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/ August 29, 2026
Gensler is a global design and architecture firm founded in 1965 in San Francisco by Art Gensler, his wife Drue Gensler, and James Follett. What began as a corporate interiors practice has grown into the largest architecture firm in the world by revenue, generating roughly
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/ August 29, 2026
HOK is a global architecture, engineering, and design firm founded in 1955 in St. Louis, Missouri, by George F. Hellmuth, Gyo Obata, and George Kassabaum, three graduates of Washington University’s School of Architecture. While the firm built its early reputation on schools, corporate campuses, and
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/ August 29, 2026
HKS Architects is a Dallas, Texas-based architecture firm founded in 1939 by Harwood K. Smith that grew from a small local office into one of the most prolific sports venue designers in the world. Over more than eight decades, the firm expanded into a global
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/ August 29, 2026
Populous is a global architecture and design firm best known for shaping the modern era of sports venues, from retro-style ballparks to Olympic stadiums. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with regional hubs in London and Brisbane, the firm traces its roots to 1983, when it
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/ August 29, 2026
Parques Reunidos is a Madrid-based leisure company that ranks among the largest amusement park operators in the world. Founded in 1967 as Parque de Atracciones Casa de Campo de Madrid, the company has grown from a single Spanish amusement park into a diversified portfolio spanning
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/ August 29, 2026
Palace Entertainment was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based operator of amusement parks, water parks, and family entertainment centers across the United States. Founded in 1998 through the merger of four independently owned entertainment companies, it grew over the following decades into one of the largest regional park
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/ August 29, 2026
Disney Experiences is the division of The Walt Disney Company responsible for the brand’s theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and consumer products worldwide. Traced back to a division founded on April 1, 1971, it has been renamed several times over the decades, from Walt
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/ August 29, 2026
Merlin Entertainments is a London-headquartered attractions operator founded in 1998 through a management buyout, and it has since grown into one of the largest location-based entertainment companies in the world. Rather than running a single theme park, Merlin manages a global portfolio of branded venues
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/ August 29, 2026
Herschend Family Entertainment is the largest family-owned themed attractions company in the United States, tracing its roots to 1950 when Hugo and Mary Herschend leased Marvel Cave near Branson, Missouri. To entertain visitors waiting for cave tours, the family built a small 1880s-style village on
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/ August 29, 2026
Custom Coasters International (CCI) was an American roller coaster manufacturer based in West Chester, Ohio, that became one of the most prolific builders of wooden coasters in the world during the 1990s. Founded on September 1, 1991, as Custom Coasters Incorporated by Denise Dinn-Larrick, her
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/ August 29, 2026
Anton Schwarzkopf was a German engineer who took over his family’s business in 1960 and turned it into Schwarzkopf Industries GmbH, one of the most influential roller coaster manufacturers of the 20th century. Based in Münsterhausen, Bavaria, the company built rides that traveled with European
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