There is a thread where this is discussed already:
https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/anaheim-gardenwalk-development-status-report-10-17-2017.934970/
According to sales information online, the following parcels are for sale:
082-551-04
082-551-05
082-551-11
These three parcels make up the area in red. The areas in blue are what Disney currently owns.
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No, it is showing the "retail" space. The Parking Structure and Time Share (To be built on top of the structure), and the two Hotel Lots are the others. (The city owns the Fire Station land in between the two Hotel Lots, which they got as part of the approval process).
Hardly simple since it requires the easements from Anaheim to cross the public roads. Disney ran into roadblocks from trying to get a simple bridge over Harbor Blvd. It would take a lot of planning and designs to cross the city streets and along Harbor Blvd. It has to find a route along Disney’s properties and any it doesn’t own. AGW is already developed. There’s no route through it for the monorail or people mover. The remaining solution is many shuttles through city streets for tens of thousands of guests. This will prove impossible.Adding a monorail to connect the main esplanade to a third gate is a rather simple and effective fix for your transportation problem. Shuttles, as well. The installation of a People Mover from where the Eastern Gateway parking lot to the third gate would be far more of a problem but still very much possible.
That article doesn’t really discuss how it wouldn’t work. It won’t work because the land is already developed. There’s no transportation to get anyone from the various locations within Disneyland Resort to the third park especially through AGW. There’s a lot of people to move. The AGW parking lot is small and useless to park enough people to the third park. DCA hasn’t fully built out it’s capacity. The Eastern Gateway is logically the better choice as a third park although a small park. Just build a pedestrian bridge. Disney will again conclude there should be no third park. There’s just no way to make it work.
Considering I already said the parking garage is too small to serve the theme park, this won’t work. The mall should be demolished and started over again, but Darkbeer already said the hotel leases must be played out so Disney could find itself with a white elephant for decades. And if the hotels are built, Disney cannot demolish ever. The opportunity to make it work is in the past.As others have said Disney could either repurpose the mall as an eastern version of the Downtown Disney “marketplace” or level it and create a customized pedestrian lane to the third park. Presumably any plans for a third theme park would have to rely heavily on pedestrian access to the current parks via the Eastern Gateway and it’s proposed parking garage. I certainly won’t be holding my breath waiting for Disney to announce that kind investment in Anaheim, but I’m willing to play along for fun since speculating is what we do here.
Considering I already said the parking garage is too small to serve the theme park, this won’t work.
Last week the The Disney Blog posted a story speculating on what we've been discussing here - how Disney would benefit from purchasing AGW to connect the current theme parks, hotels, and retail to a third park on the existing Disney parking lot bordering Katella. No big news or revelations, but still relevant.
http://thedisneyblog.com/2018/01/18/roadmap-third-gate-disneyland-needs-gardenwalk/
The bigger issue is how to get guests from Mickey and Friends parking structure to the third park. This lot will be expanded by 6,300 spaces to a total of 16,000+ spaces.
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