So true, great planning by Disney! Lets take a giant sports based bar with a 100 TVs, great menu and a huge bar and replace it with a Cake Shop. Just what the Boardwalk area needed. It is almost as if Disney does these things unpurpose
I feel as though it's in direct competition to Summer House on the Lake at DS. I don't know that I'm drawn to either, let alone both.
I asked Moe (the construction worker) and he said they are planning to open in 2027 now. The flooring will take 14 months but you should be able to eat cake off it, so there’s that.
I think WDI has very little to do with this project. They would have OK'd the design, but it's all third party designed and built like locations at Disney Springs.
I imagine it gets handled however the contract the tenant signed stipulated. For all we know, there may be penalties they’re already dealing with for taking longer than originally planned.
Makes me think of when they were building the Contemporary and Polynesian. Apparently US Steel wasn’t going to get them done in time so Roy ended the contract, hired all their workers, and finished it himself.
It would not be unusual if as part of the lease agreement they used a Disney approved or specified contractor(s).
6 more months should do it!
I think the same two guys who are building it are going to do the cooking as well.
