Jul 14 - Zombie Apocalypse Theme Park Could Take Over Abandoned Neighborhood In Detroit

Why wait for the zombie apocalypse? One man wants customers to experience the terror now.

With soaring budget deficits and population on the decline, Detroit has become a laboratory for testing out creative solutions for cities, like urban farming and pedestrian-friendly greenway trails.

Mark Siwak says he has his own idea for bettering the city -- a live-action zombie theme park set in one of Detroit's abandoned neighborhoods.

Paying customers would be chased by a growing horde of zombies (all professionals) through a cordoned-off, desolate section of the city, seeking shelter in abandoned homes and factories and businesses.

Z World creator Siwak, who has launched a fundraiser on IndieGoGo (he's raised $2,200 of the $140,000 needed to meet his goal), says that the city of Detroit needs to consider creative solutions to areas of urban blight.

Mayor Dave Bing's long-touted campaign promise was the implementation of the Detroit Works Project, which could ultimately relocate residents from blighted districts to more populated areas in an attempt to centralize city services. Spread across 140 square miles, Detroit proper is so large that the entire cities of San Francisco and Boston, plus the borough of Manhattan, can fit inside its borders.

And Siwak says, with all that land, there's room in the Motor City for a zombie theme park. He even compares his idea to the city's famed Heidelberg Project, in which artist Tyree Guyton transformed the empty homes of his neighborhood into a large-scale art installation.

But some critics have shrugged off "Z World" as an exploitative and insensitive ploy to profit off the glamorization of Detroit's problems. Curbed Detroit blogger Sarah Cox wrote that Siwak's plan "sounds a lot like all that fun we had during the 1960s race riots. It is nice to know that Z Land is finally going to capitalize on our love of adrenaline rushes and nostalgia. Now even visitors from the 'burbs can 'wonder if they will make it through the night.'"

Siwak told CBS Detroit that "the city can only have so many urban farms or similar uses for vacant plots.'

And while he's far away from his funding goals, not to mention permission from the City of Detroit, he says he's already getting resumes from Detroiters who'd like their next 9-to-5 to focus on eating brains and staggering through the streets.

On his site, Siwak[..]ured, "while zombies are great, the real neat thing about this project is the potential to inject some life into a forgotten neighborhood - with the opportunity to work with neighborhood groups and organization."

This wouldn't be the world's first live-action zombie role-play game, though Detroit's proposal is almost certainly the most expansive. In Atlanta, thrill-seekers wielding paint ball guns will pay as much as $30 to play hide-and-seek with undead zombies in a formerly abandoned truck stop rechristened as the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, opening Sept. 28. Over on the other side of the pond, wish.co.uk offers zombie combat mission experiences with training from military veterans and movie-grade special effects.

Zombie Apocalypse Theme Park Could Take Over Abandoned Neighborhood In Detroit

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dont let me catch u slippin im in there! lol..all seriousness thro some paintball guns and we got game!..i woldnt be surprised if its the packard plant area..

"Curbed Detroit blogger Sarah Cox wrote that Siwak's plan "sounds a lot like all that fun we had during the 1960s race riots."

Of course a white liberal complains about it. Does she even live in Detroit? And i don't think she's old enough to experienced those race riots.

[pic] this sounds fun, we need some excitement out here

That's pretty good. I wish they had one near my state

All we need is some stupid person parking in the wrong hood getting caught by dopefiends thinking they're zombies.

I can see it now on Fox news. "A man got shot and robbed for his cartier glasses and Iphone. Police report says he was getting chased by a zombie when the alleged zombie pulled out a pistol and began to shoot him and he snatched the glasses and phone while fleeing the scene"

Its a set up 2 make real zombies 2 be unleashed Gotta feeling

Lol I want in [pic]

[pic] when they doing this !!

go to east side buffalo, ny;
schreveport,la;
niagara falls,ny
downtown lexington, nc
and many more cities across the country

and you can see it for free. The begining of the disco age.

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Went to that !! twice last year [pic]

Didn't pay 30, but the the 20 I spent collectively was well worth it. The paintball part was weak, but if this guy could find a way to incorporate shooting the zombies as you run from them (rather than at the end like they did in atl) this !!'d be well worth the 30

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You got Direction to this spot in Atlanta. Or a link to the site

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how u go when it say it dont open til the 28 of sept [pic] and if u really did go where the !! at so i can slide through

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