Idea for a very huge city in Maine

[VGmaster9]

Somewhere on the coast of Maine, where there is so much land to have, a city could be built. It would be like the American version of Dubai and would have more things to do than any other American city. It would have an international airport, as well as all kinds of transportation lines. It would also have huge commercial, industrial, and residential sections.

However, the biggest part of the city's economy, would be tourism and leisure entertainment. It would include all kinds of golf courses, shopping malls, museums, gardens, zoos/aquariums, theme parks/waterparks, casinos, hotels/resorts, arcologies, and much more. There would also be a massive sports complex, housing multi-purpose venues and other recreational facilities. There would even be many different haunted attractions there, both seasonal and annual. Some of the hotels there would exceed 5 stars.

The theme parks there would include a Cedar Fair park bigger than Cedar Point, a huge Six Flags Park, an Asian themed Busch Gardens, a Seaworld, a Universal theme park, a Disney park bigger than WDW, and a Legoland (if Paramount Parks was still active, it would have one of those too). Some theme parks would also have sister parks. There would even be some standalone waterparks like Schlitterbahn. There would also be a safari park as well as a massive fairground that would host many different fairs and festivals such as its own state fair, agricultural show, music festival, and more.

Of course, there would also be many special streets (like Niagara Falls' Clifton Hill) that would have all kinds of interesting attractions, shops, restaurants, and more. There would also be different marinas as well as a huge port for cruise lines (like Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Disney Cruise Line). It could even have a massive ferris while that rivals the London Eye. Also, there would be a fair share of dinner theater attractions including Medieval Times. There would even be an area that has beaches, boardwalks, and amusement piers, like Wildwood, Seaside Heights, and Atlantic City.

What else do you think it should have?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A magic weather machine to counteract the terrible weather? There's a reason there's no Disney park there now.

 

[Umbran]

A magic weather machine to counteract the terrible weather?

Yes. The whole thing will need a giant dome, or to be built underground, to deal with the Maine winters.

So, maybe what this city in Maine needs is to not be in Maine?

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

lots of hobby shops

 

[Janx]

Yes. The whole thing will need a giant dome, or to be built underground, to deal with the Maine winters.

So, maybe what this city in Maine needs is to not be in Maine?

How is this mythical city not New York City or Florida?

Why Maine?

And if it has to be Maine, I think you'd need a plausible alternate history that justifies Maine as being THE big city that New York could have been.

 

[Crothian]

What a horrible idea. Not because of the weather but because the best thing about Maine is it is a great place to see wilderness because of the lack of people. Having a city that big up there would destroy the natural environment. The great parks and seasides would lose their attractiveness. Arcadia would become a parking lot.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I think you'd need a plausible alternate history that justifies Maine as being THE big city that New York could have been.

Maybe New York was nuked. Though if you want to rebuild after such an attack surely there would be better more temperate locations to rebuild then Maine.

 

[Umbran]

How is this mythical city not New York City or Florida?

Well, it isn't "mythical". It is more "theoretical". And this theoretical city isn't in New York or Florida because the real estate in those places is, at this point, so expensive that the cost makes building such a thing there even less plausible than building it in Maine.

Why Maine?

Because it is perhaps one of the few coastal places in the continental US with real estate cheap enough to consider it, I would wager.

What a horrible idea.

I have to agree....

Not because of the weather but because the best thing about Maine is it is a great place to see wilderness because of the lack of people.

...though, I'd say it is a bad idea for both reasons.

 

[VGmaster9]

To be honest, I never really took the whole weather thing with much consideration, I think the best alternatives could be places like Rhode Island, Delaware, or Mississippi. I'm not sure if they have any famous cities in them, or maybe I'm wrong.

Other things the place would have would include an old-fashioned amusement from Palace Entertainment, as well as a Boomers! park and a Speedzone. There would also be all kinds of Ripley's attractions there. There would even be a Grey Wolf Lodge resort there.

 

[Felon]

To be honest, I never really took the whole weather thing with much consideration, I think the best alternatives could be places like Rhode Island, Delaware, or Mississippi. I'm not sure if they have any famous cities in them, or maybe I'm wrong.

Well, don't beat yourself up too much, because the weather isn't quite the show-stopper previous posters made it out to be. Americans do most of their vacation travel in the summer, not the winter. And guess what? Florida is a horrible place to be walking any measurable distance in the summer. Guess what else? New York is an even more horrible place to be walking any measurable distance in the summer. Guess what else again? Las Vegas might as well have been erected on the surface of the sun. Haven't been to Dubai, but it's in a freaking desert, so, uh....

All the same, people do visit these tourist meccas year-round and subject themselves to the weather, because those are the vacation spots programmed into our collective minds. The weather of the east coast is generally not great for one reason or other (too hot or too wet or too cold). Maine's winters are horrible, but I'll take the summers. And as I just demonstrated, maybe we could use a vacation spot with mild summers even if it has to shut down during the winter (to be fair, snow is a bigger challenge than heat for a big city).

To be honest, I never really took the whole weather thing with much consideration, I think the best alternatives could be places like Rhode Island, Delaware, or Mississippi.

OK, I think trying to position Mississippie as a center of tourism is pushing the limites as to what humans can endure.