Holiday World owners pull out of Louisville project
Holiday World CEO Natalie Koch it wasn't any particular regulation that led to the decision to drop plans to reopen Kentucky Kingdom.
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Koch family wins incentives to reopen Kentucky theme park
The family that owns Indiana's Holiday World will get as much as $3.9 million from the state of Kentucky over the next decade to reopen a shuttered amusement park in Louisville.
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Conner Prairie freshens up Prairietown exhibit
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Koch family takes another step toward Kentucky park
The owners of Holiday World have taken another step toward re-opening an amusement park near Louisville known as Kentucky Kingdom that closed more than two years ago.