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[TP2000]

Is there anything specific driving the current development boom?

There's five words that describe the incredible hotel building boom in Anaheim's Resort District.

The first two words changed the game radically about five years ago: Cars Land.

The last three words, based on the success of Cars Land, are widely anticipated to reshape the theme park industry in SoCal and make Anaheim's business boom even more by 2019: Star Wars Land.

A secondary factor could be the current expansion of the largest convention center on the west coast, the Anaheim Convention Center. But since Anaheim's convention center has been the largest and busiest on the west coast for decades now, the latest expansion will just grow the convention business incrementally. And the latest expansion is really more about giving clients the ability to host events that corporate clients want now, namely with lots of breakout rooms and smaller event spaces instead of just giant exhibit halls.

The Anaheim Convention Center expansion is what is driving the three new Four-Diamon luxury hotels, whereas the mid-range hotels built in the last few years are driven more by Disneyland's booming family tourist business.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

Garden Grove's city council had a really delusional period where they thought they were going to get a non-Disney theme park built, and/or an NFL stadium, and/or an Indian Casino, and/or a canal-lined shopping center. For about a decade there was a constant stream of fantastical sketches of all these proposed projects that always had sketchy funding sources.

Oh god, I remember that.

 

[Ismael Flores]

I'm really surprised why Disney isn't buying these old properties at the edge of its existing properties. If they ever decide to build a third gate now they will have thes huge hotels at almost every corner of the park. They will need huge show buildings or rockwork to hide them from being eyesores within park

 

[TP2000]

I'm really surprised why Disney isn't buying these old properties at the edge of its existing properties. If they ever decide to build a third gate now they will have thes huge hotels at almost every corner of the park. They will need huge show buildings or rockwork to hide them from being eyesores within park

I think the "third gate" doesn't really exist beyond the musings of Internet fan forums and a few wide-eyed Imagineering college interns.

The city of Anaheim has plans for that property; to run Gene Autry Way right through the middle of it to link to Convention Way. From an Anaheim Planning Commission document, the uncompleted section of Gene Autry Way through the "third gate" area is in purple.

And Disney has made no attempts to use that property beyond cheap parking lots, and no attempts to piece together many of the properties around it that came up for sale over the last 10 years.

Disney could have been buying these properties just for use as parking for 10 or 20 years, which they desperately need and would pay for itself at $18 per car per day, but they didn't. If they have no desire to even expand their existing parking lots here, why would they have any desire to build an entirely new theme park here?

The third gate is just wishful thinking, and whatever blue sky ideas for it that may have existed in 1999 died on or around February 8th, 2001 when DCA fell flat on its face and became the biggest corporate failure since New Coke or the Edsel.

Speaking of the Edsel, tomorrow is DCA's 16th birthday!

 

[Deleted member 107043]

I think the "third gate" doesn't really exist beyond the musings of Internet fan forums and a few wide-eyed Imagineering college interns.

So glad somebody else said this.

 

[Curious Constance]

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I think the "third gate" doesn't really exist beyond the musings of Internet fan forums and a few wide-eyed Imagineering college interns.

I never tire of your descriptions of people. Hahahaha.

 

[yookeroo]

I think the "third gate" doesn't really exist beyond the musings of Internet fan forums and a few wide-eyed Imagineering college interns.

Which is why it always amused me to see the argument that the mythical third gate as the best place for Star Wars Land. We're decades away from a third park. And even that's a long shot.

 

[jamesv159]

I think the "third gate" doesn't really exist beyond the musings of Internet fan forums and a few wide-eyed Imagineering college interns.

The city of Anaheim has plans for that property; to run Gene Autry Way right through the middle of it to link to Convention Way. From an Anaheim Planning Commission document, the uncompleted section of Gene Autry Way through the "third gate" area is in purple.

And Disney has made no attempts to use that property beyond cheap parking lots, and no attempts to piece together many of the properties around it that came up for sale over the last 10 years.

Disney could have been buying these properties just for use as parking for 10 or 20 years, which they desperately need and would pay for itself at $18 per car per day, but they didn't. If they have no desire to even expand their existing parking lots here, why would they have any desire to build an entirely new theme park here?

The third gate is just wishful thinking, and whatever blue sky ideas for it that may have existed in 1999 died on or around February 8th, 2001 when DCA fell flat on its face and became the biggest corporate failure since New Coke or the Edsel.

Speaking of the Edsel, tomorrow is DCA's 16th birthday!

If I remember correctly, Anaheim did plan to run Gene Autry Way through the strawberry farm. Once Disney bought the property, those plans were scrapped.

 

[Phroobar]

Which is why it always amused me to see the argument that the mythical third gate as the best place for Star Wars Land. We're decades away from a third park. And even that's a long shot.

That is the Disney fan's way of saying not in my Disneyland back yard!