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I'm assuming that area outside the berm won't be developed for quite some time, but isn't it a designated expansion pad? (Please correct me if I am wrong). If they do develop that area in the future, I imagine it will be organized somewhat like DL's ToonTown - a dead-end cul-de-sac beyond the...

Any expansion in Frontierland will require some major overhaul in order to provide access to TSI and (eventually) the back corner behind BTMR. Filling in the back part of the Rivers of America might be necessary to support the attraction, but it would likely not be the main access for the...

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This is great information - thanks! I'll have to check out that cabinet when I'm there in June. I really wish WDW had an equivalent exhibit for all of their upcoming projects, but it's great to hear that we'll be getting updated aerials for DCA every couple of months!

Great catch! :wave: And no problem, I love doing this sort of thing! I agree with you regarding the updated image - it looks just like an updated Google aerial! Usually the helicopter shots give us an angled view (like we get from Scott Keating), but this one is perfectly straight down, so we...

Good idea! I know this isn't really what you're looking for, but here are two aerials - at the exact same scale - for size comparisons. They're both horribly out of date, but the online mapping sites (like Google and Bing) haven't updated their aerials in a while. At least they have scale bars...

Here's an interesting tidbit from the Geotechnical Report submitted with the permit documents: "The building will be six to seven stories tall (T-shaped) with construction being concrete columns and post tensioned slabs. The building will extend into Seven Seas Lagoon. A small portion of the...

This is very helpful, and the layout looks exactly as I would expect it to. Good work! Since we're looking at 18 two-bedroom units per floor, the total number of units in the building likely will be in the 90-126 range, depending on the height of the building and the number of units on the...

Haha - point taken :)

That would be very helpful. My numbers are just based off of gross square footage comparisons, but they're very rough estimates at best. I could be off by quite a bit, especially since I didn't realize the BLT was primarily single-loaded corridors. How extraordinarily inefficient! I agree that...

This^ I don't think the proposed location will cause lots of problems, except during the construction phase. The view of the main building will not be lost, except for the people who make it all the way down to the beach by the wedding pavilion. The wedding pavilion will lose some of its...

Agreed. This will be their smallest DVC addition yet (at least at WDW, as DL's Grand Californian only has some 48 units).

For comparison purposes, here are the total units for other DVC resorts: Resort: Total # of units / Max. Available Rooms Old Key West: 531 / 761 Boardwalk Villas: 383 / 532 Wilderness Lodge Villas: 136 / 181 Beach Club Villas: 208 / 282 Saratoga Springs: 828 / 1260 Animal Kingdom Villas: 458 /...

I stand corrected - thanks very much for the calculations! I wonder what the final room count will be for this new DVC. At 15 stories, BLT has 295 two-bedroom villas. The GF has 867 rooms in 6 buildings, for an average of ~145 rooms per each 4- or 5-story building. If the new building is 6...

Great - thanks for the info! Does anyone know how many stories tall the new building will be?

Also, it looks like the tennis courts are now gone, and the walk to the Heath Club will be even longer since guests will have to take the new path that follows all the way around the new drop-off.

All I can say is that the new building footprint seems really small compared to the overall square footage of the resort. I'll have to pull it up in AutoCAD to get an estimate. It's certainly nowhere near the scale of the BLT, especially in terms of room count (since the building can only be so...

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Agreed. I am really surprised as well and hope it is part of a larger trend. Between the waterfalls/stream here and the numerous pools/rivers/waterfalls in the FLE, I hope we're seeing a change in their overall mindset.

Based on the plans, the existing transition under the Columbia Harbor House bridge is staying. Thank goodness, because I'm with John Hench - that is (by far) the most successful transition in the park. It also happens to be my favorite themed area in MK. Unfortunately, the area will lose some of...