Well, the economy is depressed now and has many waiting for better days so any economic development may be slow coming. In early April, President Grimmer had mentioned that there were no rumors but fact that Disney was inquiring about a theme park. However, roads are not up to par to allow egress and ingress/on and off and accomodating excess loads (such as I-12, 447, 442, ETC.).

Juban's been stuck on a sewage ditch 15 ft. by 100+ feet and the EPA has to approve sewage disposal to nearby Grey's Creek instead of the Amite River miles down the road.

No one's attempting to up the dining establishment from mom 'n pop greasy spoons to an improvement such as The Olive Garden, Outback, etc. Establishment/owners are stuck on fast foot and Chili's. The one in BassPro is untested and probably stuffed from new-comers/gawkers.

Walker is stagnant and over filled with nothing but banks and storage places (geez, does everyone in Livingston keep their possestions in a shed??). Where's economic development when you need it??? Walker has the worse food and highways seen by humankind and Denham Springs is but a step-up which relies on real-estate and antiques. Perhaps the parish and economic development needs to start earning their pay and start going after establishments to keep people from going to the "Road-black" also know as Sherwood in Baton Rouge

Pitful land and development at best to lure the obscure and attrack the love bugs

Get going officials!!! All promising with little acccomplished!!

i don't mind a theme park, but what about the interstate. Traffic is horrible now, just imagine what it will be like when they build this theme park. have you ever tried driving on the interstate after 3? it is pure hell---stop and go----from o'neal lane all the way down to juban. i don't mind the theme parks, but i would like to see the traffic situation fixed.

Disney comming to Livingston Parish. I think this was just a ploy to make people run out and buy some land with the hope of being rich when thr theme park was announced. Some people selling land are probably making up stories just so they can unload their land and make a little more money. Maybe in 20 to 30 years when the loop around Baton Rouge is complete, then disney may come. There are not enough highways to take on the traffic now. Just the construction of such a project would require more roads to be built. I will be dead and gone by the time that will happen. My kids kids may see a theme park but I won't . I remember the water slide park in Denham Springs 30 years ago. This was a big attraction back then. OH!!!! I think all the talk about a theme park may be around a water park like Schlitterbahn in Galveston Texas. www.schlitterbahn.com is this place owned by Disney That would make sence of all this comotion about a theme park. Make it a parctial indoor waterpark like the one in Japan.
I can ramble on and on about our parish. But I won't.  Yea, bad english and even worst spelling. I need spell check. I'm glad I can post without being a member. I always hate to sign up for these message boards. This one I don't so I will be a posting. I just can't make changes to what I post if I make a mistake. Oh, by the way, it's a phoney email address to. you need to get some more smiley faces

  Well, one can forget about a Disney Theme park. It takes oodles of acreage and the one in Orlando:

Total acreage of the Walt Disney World Resort: 30,500
That's equal to 47 square miles.

So, what will 2000 acres get? Probably a German "Waterpark" for those 30 and under. ;^( and only for summer fun. It would have been wonderful to see a year round park, but even the Jazzland/6 Flags in New Orleans was in deep trouble before the hurricane and theme park owners are quite aware that hurricane force winds can do here. (and in Florida, for that matter).

Oh, well.

Hello ...this is my first post on this board. I have heard the rumor that someone has bought 1900 acres between Satsuma and Livingston and that some of the money was Disney...plans to build a movie studio, waterpark and semi-pro baseball complex.

The other rumor was from someone who lives on Walker South and said that Disney bought 2200 acres from the old Harris place..with plans for a Magic Kingdom

I don't know what to think...but something is going to be built in Livingston Parish...Mike Grimmer said that soon he will have a major announcement that will shock the south!

I, too, have heard plenty of these rumors and by all means hope they are true. We need something "good" for our area. The nearby sporting good stores are nice, but something for families to do together without paying a fortune to travel states away would be awesome for our families and property values. I am all for whatever may come about !

I have herd some rummblings about a theme park comming to the parish. I've herd it from several people now. No specifics, just a little rumors. Has anybody else herd anything?