\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPlans for a new water park at Cal Expo appear to be slip-sliding away.Water park fans have been dreaming for years of a return to the site of Sacramento’s former Raging Waters park, which closed in 2022 after 15 years of operation. (Previous coverage in the video above.)A new water park called CaliBunga has been the brainchild of California Dreamin’ Entertainment executive Steven Dooner, who initially planned to open it in 2024 as part of a three-year plan for renovations. Dooner later said the park needed to be fully renovated and his company planned a target opening date for 2027. At one point, Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s was said to be a partner on the project. But there were financial issues behind the scenes. California Dreamin\u2019 Entertainment has been in violation of its lease agreement with more than $202,000 owed to Cal Expo, according to a letter included with a Cal Expo board packet last month. The letter, dated Jan. 16, said that California Dreamin\u2019 Entertainment missed a final extension for paying up. It warned that the lease agreement would be voided on Feb. 2 and Cal Expo would take possession of the water park on Feb. 3. A representative for Cal Expo said it would release a statement about the issue later on Tuesday. KCRA 3 also reached out to Dooner for comment, but has not yet heard back. Dooner is also the head of another company called California Dreamin\u2019 Presents. The company\u2019s website says it is an official licensing partner of the X Games, which are slated to take place at Cal Expo this summer. A Cal Expo spokesperson said that X Games are \u201cits own entity\u201d and are still scheduled to take place from June 26-28.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Plans for a new water park at Cal Expo appear to be slip-sliding away.<\/p>\n
Water park fans have been dreaming for years of a return to the site of Sacramento’s former Raging Waters park, which closed in 2022 after 15 years of operation. <\/p>\n
(Previous coverage in the video above.)<\/p>\n
A new water park called CaliBunga <\/a>has been the brainchild of California Dreamin’ Entertainment<\/a> executive Steven Dooner, who initially planned to open it in 2024 as part of a three-year plan for renovations. Dooner later said<\/a> the park needed to be fully renovated and his company planned a target opening date for 2027. At one point, Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s<\/a> was said to be a partner on the project. <\/p>\n But there were financial issues behind the scenes. California Dreamin\u2019 Entertainment has been in violation of its lease agreement with more than $202,000 owed to Cal Expo, according to a letter included with a Cal Expo board packet last month<\/a>. <\/p>\n The letter, dated Jan. 16, said that California Dreamin\u2019 Entertainment missed a final extension for paying up. It warned that the lease agreement would be voided on Feb. 2 and Cal Expo would take possession of the water park on Feb. 3. <\/p>\n A representative for Cal Expo said it would release a statement about the issue later on Tuesday. <\/p>\n KCRA 3 also reached out to Dooner for comment, but has not yet heard back. <\/p>\n Dooner is also the head of another company called California Dreamin\u2019 Presents<\/a>. The company\u2019s website says it is an official licensing partner of the X Games, which are slated to take place at Cal Expo this summer. <\/p>\n A Cal Expo spokesperson said that X Games are \u201cits own entity\u201d and are still scheduled to take place from June 26-28<\/a>.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for a new water park at Cal Expo appear to be slip-sliding away.Water park fans have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2691,78772,7,69052,9,8,1804,78773,23615,967,45043,78774,5374,1838,1410,3230,78771,36362,50862,72],"class_list":["post-162444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-cal-expo","tag-cal-expo-document","tag-california","tag-california-dreamin","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-company","tag-dooner","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-feb","tag-financial-issue","tag-lease","tag-letter","tag-place","tag-plan","tag-raging-waters","tag-water-park","tag-x-games","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}