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Anaheim RV Park is permanantly closing
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TP2000
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Well, that's sad. There are quite a few businesses in the Anaheim Resort District that are not going to be reopening, or have already closed permanently. Especially these smaller family-owned businesses who don't have a corporate office to fall back on.
This was the closest RV park to Disneyland, just across the freeway and next door to the massive American Sports Center (which used to do booming business, but has been closed for six months). I believe it was the only RV park left in the Resort District. I wonder what will become of the property?
I'm not familiar with the family who owns this property, but a quick Google search led me to this heartbreaking video they made in 2016 to celebrate their 60th Anniversary. This family opened this RV park a year after Disneyland opened.
This was the closest RV park to Disneyland, just across the freeway and next door to the massive American Sports Center (which used to do booming business, but has been closed for six months). I believe it was the only RV park left in the Resort District. I wonder what will become of the property?
I'm not familiar with the family who owns this property, but a quick Google search led me to this heartbreaking video they made in 2016 to celebrate their 60th Anniversary. This family opened this RV park a year after Disneyland opened.
Anaheim RV Park, Disneyland Camping, Orange County
Welcome to Anaheim RV Park in Orange County, California. We offer RV Camping near Disneyland, California. Call to book your next stay at 714-774-3860"
www.anaheimrvpark.com
Stevek
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Well, that's sad. There are quite a few businesses in the Anaheim Resort District that are not going to be reopening, or have already closed permanently. Especially these smaller family-owned businesses who don't have a corporate office to fall back on.
This was the closest RV park to Disneyland, just across the freeway and next door to the massive American Sports Center (which used to do booming business, but has been closed for six months). I believe it was the only RV park left in the Resort District. I wonder what will become of the property?
I'm not familiar with the family who owns this property, but a quick Google search led me to this heartbreaking video they made in 2016 to celebrate their 60th Anniversary. This family opened this RV park a year after Disneyland opened.
Anaheim RV Park, Disneyland Camping, Orange County
Welcome to Anaheim RV Park in Orange County, California. We offer RV Camping near Disneyland, California. Call to book your next stay at 714-774-3860"www.anaheimrvpark.com
Drove down Anaheim Blvd from my office on Broadway a thousand times...never had a clue this RV park was there. Disney should start scooping up this land...this wouldn't be a bad location if they needed offsite storage should they want to expand the part further back beyond Runaway Railway/Galaxy's Edge.
Truly sucks that these folks are being impacted by this farging virus.
George Lucas on a Bench
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This sucks.
Is a very nice RV park and a great way to visit the parks! Last year we watched the fireworks in the comfort of our lawn chairs when the kids were too tired to soldier on at the park. Lots of our friends and family have stayed here as well. Very sad to see them close, and that video makes it even more heartbreaking!
The longer Disneyland is closed, the more small businesses will shut down.
Stevek
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Interesting...it's not like I would consider it the best area in Anaheim but far from the worst. Would have never even guessed it would be popular in that location. In any case, very sad.
TP2000
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Like @Stevek I had no idea it was even there! But from their website and that video, it looked like a happy little RV park in a convenient location. It makes me sad to think they've had to close, but I hope the family can get a good price for the land.
We'd talked about this at the start of summer when the park had only been closed for a few months, but I have a couple friends in the commercial real estate game and they had dire warnings for the Resort District when the Disneyland closure wasn't even 3 months old. Now it's been 6 months, and still no word on when the park will reopen and in what sort of extremely limited capacity.
When I finish with my San Diego summer time and return home, I will catch up with them and see how bad things have gotten over the summer.
The damage already done to the Resort District is massive, and once Disneyland reopens later this year (hopefully), it will be apparent how many businesses didn't make it. The fact that giant, international conventions of 50,000 to 100,000 attendees once scheduled for the Anaheim Convention Center have already been cancelled into early 2021 is not going to make the recovery fast.
We talk a lot about Disneyland obviously, but we often forget that the Anaheim Convention Center is the largest convention center on the West Coast by a longshot, and it hosts some of the largest and most lucrative conventions in the entire West, second only to Las Vegas. But Anaheim's center is far larger and more impactful than LA, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle or Portland.
To have that center completely shuttered for 10 months or longer is a death blow.
NAMM cancels 2021 convention in Anaheim due to coronavirus
The annual event, scheduled for the week of Jan. 18, will instead host a virtual Believe in Music week.
www.ocregister.com
the.dreamfinder
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Hope Mickey’s got his checkbook ready.
Figments Friend
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Wouldn't surprise me if it's already a done deal.
Mice are 'sneaky' like that...
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TP2000
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Wouldn't surprise me if it's already a done deal.
Mice are 'sneaky' like that...
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If you see this realtor sign go up on this property, it's a done deal and Mickey owns it. This is Mickey's man in Anaheim...
TP2000
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I'm quoting myself, not because I'm losing it (already lost it years ago, actually), but because of today's news that the American Sports Center just across Anaheim Blvd. from this RV park is closing effective immediately. They have bailed on their lease and the center will be reverted to warehouse facilities.
The business model for the entire Anaheim Resort District is crumbling before our eyes. The sudden closure of American Sports Center is a tough blow for the ability of the Resort District to attract lucrative visitors from beyond SoCal, especially in the off-season and shoulder seasons when hotel occupancy is lower than peak vacation times.
I will now most definitely be checking in with some friends who are in the commercial real estate biz when I return to OC. I might even just call them up over this American Sports Center news, as that is devastating. They had been quite worried about GardenWalk and some of the older big businesses near the Convention Center, but this closure just bombed out the eastern flanks of the Resort District and shot a hole into several brand new hotels there; notably the Radisson Blu and the Cambria.
Yikes!
Yep, but I honestly thought they were building too many new, high end hotels and not enough affordable options anyway.I'm quoting myself, not because I'm losing it (already lost it years ago, actually), but because of today's news that the American Sports Center just across Anaheim Blvd. from this RV park is closing effective immediately. They have bailed on their lease and the center will be reverted to warehouse facilities.
The business model for the entire Anaheim Resort District is crumbling before our eyes. The sudden closure of American Sports Center is a tough blow for the ability of the Resort District to attract lucrative visitors from beyond SoCal, especially in the off-season and shoulder seasons when hotel occupancy is lower than peak vacation times.
I will now most definitely be checking in with some friends who are in the commercial real estate biz when I return to OC. I might even just call them up over this American Sports Center news, as that is devastating. They had been quite worried about GardenWalk and some of the older big businesses near the Convention Center, but this closure just bombed out the eastern flanks of the Resort District and shot a hole into several brand new hotels there; notably the Radisson Blu and the Cambria.
Yikes!
TP2000
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Eh, almost everything built in Anaheim in the last five years were from the lower end of mid-range hotel brands.
The lower end of the mid-range that offer limited or self service, and perhaps have a small pool, a laundromat, and a lobby Starbucks as their only real amenities. The newest hotels in the Resort District read like a who's-who of limited service mid-range hotels with brands like Hyatt House, Hampton Inn, Element, Indigo, Holiday Inn Express, Comfort Inn, etc., etc.
And to be honest, almost all of those new hotels were built in that lower-middle style of corporate architecture. Universally five-story bland, stucco boxes plopped on a surface parking lot with low-maintenance shrubs planted around the perimeter. This is not luxury or expensive hospitality by any stretch of the imagination. This is cheap and limited-service lodging, 21st century style. Clean, safe, modern, but very limited and inexpensive.
The Cambria is solidly mid-range, but offers more amenities than the limited service brands above. The Radisson Blu will be in that same mid-range with more amenities than a Holiday Inn Express. If a family can't afford the $200 per night range of the Cambria, or the $150 range of the corporate stucco boxes, there are still a few older Motel 6 type properties around the Resort District.
The only truly high-end hotels are the two 4-Diamond properties opening this year; the JW Marriott and the Westin. But those were aimed more at the convention crowd instead of the family fun crowd. Of course, the Anaheim Convention Center has cancellations now stretching into 2021, so that entire business model has collapsed even harder than the theme park model.
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Not for hotels, even the "cheapest" hotel is more expensive than staying in a value resort on property (comparing similar seasons) at Disney World.
Darkbeer1
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