CANTON – The Hall of Fame Village’s three amusement rides that comprise the Play-Action Plaza are listed for sale online.
The Red Zone, a 125-foot wheel that was moved from the I-X Center in Cleveland to the Village and began operating in March 2023, is listed for $499,000 on rides4u.com.
The Forward Pass zipline that debuted the year before is listed for $99,000; and the Spike It drop ride that opened in July 2023 is listed for $129,000.
Developer Stuart Lichter, founder of the Industrial Realty Group that’s affiliated with the Village’s parent company, and Anne Graffice, the Village’s executive vice president of public affairs, did not immediately return a request for comment on the rides.
There are no specific requirements for selling or removing rides, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Division of Amusement Ride Safety. As a courtesy, the state department prefers to be notified by email so their records can be updated.
“That is so in the event it is sold and operated again in the state, it can be reentered for the new owner operator,” according to the Department of Agriculture.
As of March 5, the department had received no notification about the sale or relocation of rides at the Village.
The football-themed development adjacent to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is a separate nonprofit organization, has been under private ownership since the start of this year. The Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Co. reported a $315.7 million deficit last fall and a lack of funding for the partially finished water park, on which work has visibly resumed.
The Gameday Bay water park at 2301 George Halas Drive NW, by the Fulton Road NW entrance to the Village, is now projected to open in the spring of 2027. A nearby hotel is scheduled to open by the end of next year.
The Village’s general contractor, Welty Building Construction, provided daily work logs to the Canton Building Department to show that water park construction never fully ceased and, therefore, did not require them to reapply for a building permit. The hotel will require a complete site plan review before construction begins.
“While there were periods of slowed progress, the project remained active and was never abandoned or shut down,” Paul A. Becks, president of Welty Building Construction, wrote in a letter to the city’s chief building official.
Welty’s “manpower report” listed total hours per day by company, showing workers spent over 6,000 hours on site in December 2023. There were 4,201 hours recorded throughout all of 2024 and 1,068 hours recorded throughout all of 2025.
Representatives of Welty have referred media requests to Graffice.
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This article originally appeared on The Repository: Former I-X Center wheel among Hall of Fame Village’s rides for sale
Reporting by Kelly Byer, Canton Repository / The Repository
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