Though the 1,000 foot water slide made stops in Youngstown (in June) and Akron (in August), the expected Cleveland date was never announced. With September upon us, it’s unlikely that Slide the City will manage to come back to Northeast Ohio in 2015, especially with stops in Utah, Alabama, Arizona and Georgia in the next few weeks.
“We are working to do an event in Cleveland next year,” the rep wrote Scene in an email.
Slide the City canceled its stop in Rockford, IL, this coming weekend due to low ticket sales — CEO Spencer Hunn said his company needed to sell 3,000 tickets to make it financially worthwhile — and canceled stops in Seattle and Spokane earlier this summer due to permitting issues in those cities.
In Flint, Mich., in July, Slide the City canceled its event nine days out. At the time, a guy from Flint’s Downtown Development Authority, which had been coordinating the event with Slide the City, called the cancellation a “blessing in disguise.” He was worried after hearing of long lines and a lack of water at the event in Ann Arbor July 4th Weekend. One official there called it a public health issue because of the dehydration and crowding downtown.
In Akron, early this month, the event was by all accounts (or at least by the Akron Beacon Journal’s) a huge success, despite ticket prices in the $15-$60 range.
A City of Cleveland spokesperson told Scene by phone that he didn’t know what happened locally, and said he’d get back to us once he checked whether or not Slide the City even pulled a permit.
This article appears in Aug 26 – Sep 1, 2015.
That very last paragraph should tell you right there why the Giant Slide Tour bypassed Cleveland.
They cancelled the Youngstown date due to weather on the morning of
3,000 tickets at $60 a pop, that’s $180,000 (hooray math). Well geez, I wish I thought of dragging around a giant waterslide around the country and making millions off of it. Oh darn that they aren’t coming here, paying $60 to go down a big ass slide once or twice really would have been the best thing ever.
THANK YOU. I was wondering what happened with this!!
$60 was for an all day pass it was $15 a ride. It’s too bad you weren’t in Akron this year, it was fun.