Hey DIVERTfam!

We want to address the elephant in the room head on. COVID is creeping back into our lives and causing shut downs across the country again. No matter how COVID safe this park is, if the country is in lock down we will face difficulties opening and operating from a government restriction perspective. 

Here's the good news! We saw this second wave coming. Back in June we had to make the decision to push our launch date to Spring 2021, when what we wanted to do was launch in November, 2020. We did our homework, researched previous pandemics and stuck with the data. They all showed the likelihood of a second wave that we are experiencing now, and so we pushed out pop-up to avoid this second wave. 

Based on the data, Spring 2021 is when the second wave of the pandemic would be reduced to safe levels for outdoor and indoor operations to begin again. After a second lock down, people will be even more excited to get out of their houses, and start doing activities as a community again. DIVERT is positioned to offer up a sense of hope and normalcy that people can return to safely and confidently.  

While the vaccine still has to be proven and produced, Spring 2021 gives additional time for the vaccine to be made widely available before or shortly after we begin operations, giving consumers and operators an additional layer of comfort! 

Lastly, we worked with LA County to get our operation COVID Certified by going through their online training and certification! This certification gives DIVERT and others that go through this program priority in re-opening and additional comfort to the county, and guests! You can see our certification below! 

All in all, the impact that this second waves has on our development schedule currently is minimal, because we had planned for this to take place. Should that change, and the pandemic continues with lockdowns and delays, we are putting together a contingency plan for alternative launch dates and sites that give us flexibility with our current budget and timeline. Rest confidently, that should we need to initiate any of those contingency plans, we will let you know. For now, we are staying the course we already laid out, with this second wave as a key part of the strategic decision making process. 

We have some other (more exciting things) to updates for you, and you can look out for them in the next day or two! 

As always we are so grateful for your on-going feedback, support and involvement in DIVERT. Obviously, your investment brings great value to the project, but as early supporters of the DIVERT project we also highly value your input, and want to make sure we are building this project for our community of supporters! If you have any thoughts or input for us, please do not hesitate to reach out and give us your thoughts!