Talk:Heritage USA
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You may want to do some updated research on Heritage USA. It is now in the hands of MorningStar Fellowship Church, and the grounds have been renamed Heritage International Ministries, and they are meeting in the Grand Hotel, and have hopes to see the place restored to the Glory of God.
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[edit] What happened?
The article says that the park "by 1986 was one of the top vacation destinations in the nation", then it says "In December 2004, the remainder of the Heritage USA property was sold" - presumably after having gone defunct. When did it close? And why? There seems to be a big gap in this article. - Brian Kendig 13:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Purchase
According to a 1991 Charisma magazine series of articles, televangelist Morris Cerullo had raised money to purchase Heritage USA in late 1990. This, however, turned into a controversy of its own; and Cerullo was eventually bought out.
WAVY 10WAVY 10 17:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Defunct
Heritage USA was a theme park (of sorts). It is defunct, no more, kaput. The grounds it formerly was on have been divided up several different ways, with most being developed for new houses by MUI (AKA "the Malaysians"). The part where the castle, tower, and water park used to be were sold to a developer. He, in turn, sold off some pieces (castle, tower, hotel, Main Street) to MorningStar, sold the water park components to nearby Carowinds amusement park and bulldozed the rest of it, and is building houses on the rest.
Heritage USA itself is gone, and it isn't coming back. What remains is not HUSA; therefore, "defunct" is an accurate description. Jdb1972 14:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Don't start an edit war
First, "the former Heritage" is perfectly proper English, "Heritage" being a proper noun.
Second, the ZHOP HQ is not in Regent Park. Regent Park is on the other side of the railroad tracks. It's in the old PTL warehouse building that went from an ugly 70's yellowish metal siding to an ugly 90's psuedo-stucco siding.
Third, the ZHOP address is completely irrelevant and out of place in this entry. Feel free to start a ZHOP entry and work it into there, however. Jdb1972 00:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Amusement/Theme Park Accuracy
Is there any consideration that, despite the common reference as such, referring to this location as a theme park, or worse, amusement park, is off base, and it should be referred to -- as it was to Heritage members at the time -- as a resort instead? Theme parks and amusement parks have rides, food stands, games, mascots and the majority of the property is geared toward entertainment in one way or another. Heritage, on the other hand, had none of those things. The property had lodging, sit down restaurants, a campground with RV space, a small shopping mall and the famous, but by no means central nor large, water park. The focus of the property was clearly not entertainment with the 24 hour prayer chapel, church, TV-studio for the broadcast of the evangelistic programming and numerous lectures, etc. happening around the property all focused on Christian matters. If you think of a theme park as a place like Six Flags or Cedar Point there is no comparison with what Heritage was, but you could certainly draw distinct parallels with Heritage and Nemacolin_resort or a place like Massanutten Resort (http://massresort.com/) Dreamalynn 19:29, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
