New theme park competition coming for WDW in Florida!

[Progress.City]

Don't know if this has made the news in Orlando, but a new Florida theme park has just been approved for Miami that could become competition for WDW!

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...ticle18503702.html#/tabPane=tabs-b0710947-1-1

 

[Animaniac93-98]

The article describes the project as a mall with some supplementary attractions. I don't think it's going to directly compete with Disney or Universal.

 

[Sped2424]

i feel like I see this exact same thread + title at least 4 times every year.

 

[Progress.City]

It's being built by the same company that owns the largest mall, which is in Canada. That mall has a water park and other attractions. This mall looks like it will play up the the theme park aspect of it even more. It's competition no matter how you slice it. This may be the reason why some families decide to spend an extra day in Miami versus Orlando when they plan their Florida vacation!

 

[Bolt]

Miami is pretty miserable.

 

[Progress.City]

i feel like I see this exact same thread + title at least 4 times every year.

Huh? This is the first time this has been proposed.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Don't know if this has made the news in Orlando, but a new Florida theme park has just been approved for Miami that could become competition for WDW!

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...ticle18503702.html#/tabPane=tabs-b0710947-1-1

Dude..... I'm not sure what you're on, but share with the class. Its good stuff because theres no way, no how this could be competition for the premier family entertainment destination on the planet.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I think it'll be popular with people who have a cruise leaving Miami and fly down the day before the ship leaves.

I don't see the snowbirds and north-easterners getting excited about an indoor ski slope.

 

[Progress.City]

Miami is pretty miserable.

We're getting All Aboard Florida, which is a fast conventional train to Orlando, and multi-billion dollar mega developments for downtown that will transform the look of the city to something right out of science fiction! Miami is gonna be hot in the near future!

 

[Progress.City]

Dude..... I'm not sure what you're on, but share with the class. Its good stuff because theres no way, no how this could be competition for the premier family entertainment destination on the planet.

I know, but they will try to get their slice.

 

[Sped2424]

Huh? This is the first time this has been proposed.

This specific project yes but the *Company decides to build some form of entertainment in florida, could this be competition for Disney/incentive for them to shape up?* type threads are quite common :I

 

[Progress.City]

This specific project yes but the *Company decides to build some form of entertainment in florida, could this be competition for Disney/incentive for them to shape up?* type threads are quite common :I

I had to give it a WDW angle to make it fit in this thread. That's why I give it its subject name.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I know, but they will try to get their slice.

Four Hours away. Might as well be another state.

 

[DisneyGentleman]

The article describes the project as a mall with some supplementary attractions.

Oh, you mean it's just like EPCOT...

 

[actioncookbook]

Wow. I literally cannot even. Congrats OP your delusional ideas of what the word competition means have left me unable to process a coherent counter point.

 

[Progress.City]

Four Hours away. Might as well be another state.

All aboard Florida will make it just three hours.

 

[marni1971]

It's a themed shopping mall.

Hardly WDW news.

 

[GymLeaderPhil]

But Disney doesn't have a Cinnabon. Can't compete with that!

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Don't know if this has made the news in Orlando, but a new Florida theme park has just been approved for Miami that could become competition for WDW!

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...ticle18503702.html#/tabPane=tabs-b0710947-1-1

If build it will definitely impact tourism patterns. Not so much as direct competition. I think it will strengthen cruises, and strengthen Miami as a cruise destination. And it will certainly impact the ever-growing South American market with their love for ostentatious spending.

The company that owns and runs the largest mall in America wants to build an even bigger one in northwestern Miami-Dade, a roughly 200-acre entertainment complex with submarines, a Legoland, sea lions and an artificial ski slope.

Backed by the owner of Minnesota’s Mall of America, American Dream Miami is proposed for land at the intersection of Florida’s Turnpike and Interstate 75 near Miami Lakes. It’s projected to cost as much as $4 billion to build and employ 25,000 people once opened, more than enough to give it Miami-Dade’s largest private-sector payroll.​

 

[Hakunamatata]

Dude..... I'm not sure what you're on, but share with the class. Its good stuff because theres no way, no how this could be competition for the premier family entertainment destination on the planet.

Sure it is. I know that on the at minimum 40+ vacations to Florida I've been on Miami has been a side destination like almost zero times.