Six Flags-Branded Theme Park to be Built in Dubai

Six Flags Corporation and Meraas Leisure and Entertainment LLC, the leisure and entertainment arm of the Dubai-based real estate development company Meraas Holding, recently announced their new strategic partnership to build a Six Flags-branded theme park in Dubai. The new theme park will be one of several parks which are part of a multi-themed park project in Jebel Ali launched by Meraas. “The cornerstone of our international expansion strategy has always been finding the right partner in the right location and, with Meraas in Dubai, we have done exactly that,” said Jim Reid-Anderson, Chairman, President and CEO of Six Flags Entertainment. He adds, “We are honored to be working with this world-class organization as the first significant strategic step taking the Six Flags brand to growing and successful markets outside North America.” The opening of the new Six Flags theme park is slated for late 2017. (eap)