One thing we likely have little knowledge of is the ground capabilities there. The ground might be too unstable for the weight and load of a parking garage. Or it could just be a question of space and cost.
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Disney also made Reedy Creek build and operate those garages, making the "municipality" float bonds to pay for them. It's part of the shadiness that was Reedy Creek. While I diagree with De Santis' motives on taking over Reedy Creek, there was a lot of that kind of shifting of responsibility for improvements from the company to the municipality when it suited them.
At this point they COULD build a garage just about anywhere, but it's still cheaper to build surface parking and tear out more trees.
I know I will be on the lonesome on this but:
In a situation like this that should be what they do and in a legal sense it makes a lot of sense. Make Reedy Creek responsible for all infrastructure so if something happened it’s on ‘public property’ rather than ‘private land’. The outcomes of those lawsuits would be really different based on what type of property it happens on.
Biggest thing I would have liked to see the difference on would have been better standardization of what makes it Reedy Creek/Disney.
Agreed— that’s why all Disney parking and transportation should have been run by Reedy Creek since it’s run as a free public service. They could have issued bonds for extending the Monorail, additional boats and buses, etc.
Instead they picked and chose things to financial advantage of the company
Instead they picked and chose things to financial advantage of the company
There’s also an employee garage behind the Animation building, and it’s been there for ages. So “the soil can’t support it” is baseless.
Universal built a parking garage for employees on what was originally storm water retention space. So much is possible.
Also they're building a coaster on the former parking lot now. So maybe we are not giving the soil enough credit:
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No it’s not. Soil can be different in its ability to hold, especially in swamp areas like Florida. You can be at a spot where the depth and dampness of the soil is fine, and go 100 feet away and suddenly it isn’t.
I mean sure. It’s possible it’s unsuitable land to build on. Also possible it is?
Just because it was a surface lot, doesn’t mean it can’t be anything else? The other option would be to build a satellite lot and bus CMs over so Guests have more spaces (they used to do this during Winter Peak making CMs park at Epcot). But I don’t think that’s a good long-term solution.
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Key point there is it's not a park or a hotel. And Disney Springs did have limits on what it could do with parking as the whole area expanded, because it was already locked in by existing roads, water, and the nearby hotels. Thus, garages. Not sold on the idea that DHS in a similar situation.
Regarding Animation Academy, it certainly sounded like that experience would be moving to this new version, though it wasn't said explicitly. That could signal some sort of reshuffling to take that out of Rafiki's Planet Watch in Animal Kingdom and open that space for something else.
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if they didn't put Indiana jones & enchanto into dinoland usa, then that space would been a perfect candidate but that would be a different story
that's the point, if they didn't put these in dinoland, then rafikis would been a candidate for tropical america
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They ARE putting those on the Dinoland plot right now. It's not a question.
Anyway...
I agree with @themeparktribune that the animation experience seems like an almost required fit for this space and I'd definitely love to see it relocated out of Planet Watch.
If you haven't listened to the latest Disney Dish with Jim Hill and Len Testa, they say this is likely a temporary fix for Animation Courtyard ahead of some larger project sometime in the 2030s.
I have a hard time with statements like this. Launch Bay was also supposed to be temporary when it opened in 2015, and it lasted far longer than expected. "Disney Temporary" can be almost any length of time. I don't think there's any way we could predict where the company will be in ten years - and there are far older things in the park that feel like they are getting long in the tooth.
This is really a problem for a future Exec to figure out, if it's seen as a problem at all in a few years' time.
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