New York’s Essex County and its board of supervisors will be finding out how much its theme park Frontier Town should be appraised at. The board authorized the appraisal of one portion of the former theme park at a special hearing.
Initially the county wanted to appraise two parcels. But lawmakers emerged from an executive session denying that original request and decided to grant just one parcel of the 85-acre property to be appraised, according to reports by The (Elizabethtown, N.Y.) Sun.
The parcel contains a number of buildings, including a former restaurant and hotel, that are in varying degrees of decay. Lawmakers remain tight-lipped on future use of this parcel. Earlier this year, lawmakers expressed interest in demolishing the structures, but later defeated a resolution to have an engineer examine the roof of one of the motels, citing unknown costs.
Following its closure in 1998, the property has resurfaced in headlines in recent years, The Sun reported, most recently when Essex County shot down the sale of the parcel to the late businessman who owns the A-Frame which anchors the property.