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A longtime amusement park, reminiscence maker, and Pensacola landmark is disappearing. Demolition crews are tearing down the rides, slides, and arcades which might be sprawled throughout almost 20 acres on the web site of the previous Sam’s Fun City and Splash City Adventures simply north of Pensacola’s Car City.
According to the Escambia County Property Appraiser’s web site, Destiny Worship Center, primarily based in Miramar Beach, bought the property at 6709 Pensacola Blvd. in March 2026, for $2.75 million.
In December 2025, the church additionally bought the AMC Classic film theatre subsequent door at 6595 N. “W” St. for $6 million.
Messages to Destiny Worship Center weren’t instantly returned and there’s no phrase but on the church’s plans for the properties, however the movie show stays open.
The amusement and water park was working as Splash City Adventures for a number of years till it closed completely on the finish of the 2025 season with no plans to reopen.
Before the homeowners of Splash City Adventures purchased it in 2022, the park was generally known as Sam’s Fun City for 22 years.
Many individuals bear in mind the park as a preferred, family-friendly leisure advanced for kids of all ages earlier than it was shuttered final yr.
Demolition Pros started razing the buildings and buildings on the property on Aug. 18 and say it’ll take about three months to clear all of it.
Sam’s Fun City Splash waterpark is torn down
Demolition Pros has begun demolition of the 14-acre former waterpark, Sam’s Fun City, on Pensacola Boulevard.
“We promised them a good flat slate for them to start doing whatever they want to do,” stated companion Ron Strobo.
Fourteen acres of the 20-acre property are below concrete. All of it’ll go — plus 400,000 sq. ft of concrete and asphalt, two 20,000-square-foot steel buildings and metal construction, the lazy river, the wave pool, in addition to all of the slides and the handled wooden pilings holding them up.
The prepare experience and bumper automobile pavilion are already gone.
Ron Strobo’s son and enterprise companion, Brandon, remembers visiting Sam’s Fun City as a child.
“This used to be the spot back in the day,” Brandon said. “I probably had two or three birthday parties, would come here with my cousins. I remember when they first opened the water park, and it was such a big deal. They had a wave pool and all the slides. We have a lot of good memories here, and I know a lot of people are sad to see it go, but I think it was time for something to be done.”
The property had fallen into disrepair, becoming a site for homeless campers and a target for looters.
Sam’s Fun City Splash City Adventures park before demolition
Pensacola amusement park, once home to Sam’s Fun City and Splash City Adventures, is being demolished. This video shows its condition before demo began.
Provided by Partridge Drones and Brandon Strobo
The Strobos said they are still having to clear campers and looters from the property. The company has taken measures to barricade and secure the site.
“Over the last three weeks, every time we came out here, homeless people were asleep in one of the buildings,” Ron Strobo said. “We’ve got it barricaded off now, and we still got a call last night at 10:30 that people were on site, and they’re probably just trying to get stuff. We’ve locked all the fences and everything for safety and to keep people out,” Ron said.
Demolition Pros, run by the Strobos and their business partner Michael Huffner, has offices in Panama City Beach and Pensacola. They say this undertaking is their largest project to date.
About 10 employees are currently working on-site, with three crews rotating to handle this and other simultaneous residential and commercial projects.
The process involves continuous tear-down, loading, and hauling to prevent debris accumulation, but the Strobos say approximately 80% of the total debris, which is primarily concrete and metal, is recyclable.
They’re posting videos of the park’s demolition and other projects on their social media including their business accounts on Instagram and Facebook. They have an aerial drone view of the amusement park before they started tearing it down as well as videos of the progress along the way.
If Destiny Worship Center builds a church at the site, it will be the organization’s seventh church campus, with other locations in Destin, Freeport, Panama City Beach, Crestview, Fort Walton Beach and Navarre.
The church also owns a portion of the Pensacola Square Shopping Center at 6235 N. Davis Highway. It was purchased for $7 million in 2024.
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