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/ August 31, 2026
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district of East Berlin, created as the divided city’s eastern counterpart to the Berlin Zoological Garden in the west. Built around the grounds of the 17th-century Friedrichsfelde Palace, the park was laid out using landscaping traditions dating…
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/ August 31, 2026
Green Lantern was a stand-up roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, from 2011 until its closure after the 2024 season. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it sent riders through five inversions at speeds up to 63…
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/ August 30, 2026
Mind Bender opened at Six Flags Over Georgia on March 31, 1978, and was marketed as the world’s first triple-loop roller coaster. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by engineer Werner Stengel, the steel sit-down coaster cost about $2.8 million and quickly became…
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/ August 30, 2026
Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that has been rattling through the park’s forested Old Virginia section since it opened on March 27, 1982. Designed by noted coaster engineer Curtis D. Summers, its double-figure-eight layout closely follows the blueprint…
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/ August 29, 2026
Rossetti Architects was a Detroit-based architecture firm founded in 1969 by Gino Rossetti, initially focused on healthcare, corporate and retail work before pivoting toward large-scale sports and entertainment design. The firm’s breakthrough came in 1984, when it was hired to design The Palace of Auburn…
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/ August 29, 2026
AECOM is a multinational infrastructure consulting firm, currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that ranks among the most prolific players in modern stadium and arena development. Formed in 1990, the company grew into a Fortune 500 engineering giant with roughly 51,000 employees worldwide, offering architecture, engineering…
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/ August 29, 2026
Compagnie des Alpes is a French leisure conglomerate founded on January 26, 1989, originally to consolidate and operate ski resorts across the French Alps. Headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker CDA, the company’s leading shareholder is Caisse des Dépôts, the…
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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
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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