It's a valuable link to what almost certainly will become a new parking structure in the future. If only they could buy up the rest of the block - it's all ugly.
As the article eludes, good luck getting ahold of any of those properties.
View attachment 91407 Interesting when you look at it on google maps. Directly across Harbor Blvd. from both parks but everything around it are corporate owned hotels. As the article eludes, good luck getting ahold of any of those properties. And how to access it from Harbor. A castmember parking lot is all I can envision. But yet a good start towards expansion. $32 million. Wowsers!
This might have just been opportunistic -- family was willing to sell so Disney picked it up with no particular plans.
I would prefer they didn't. I like being able to stay close to the parks without having to pay $300 a night.It's a valuable link to what almost certainly will become a new parking structure in the future. If only they could buy up the rest of the block - it's all ugly.
I can easily see a straight path for the Monorail to connect into a new parking structure or even maybe another land like a Star Wars Land only accessible by Monorail or Star Tours Shuttle kind of like the Florida Harry Potter Land.
This was my thought. Not a new land but access to add'l parking at some point. Build a new structure on the old Grand site, figure out a way to buy the land north of that and you have a nice route to the Harbor entrance. Of course, it could just be one of those opportunistic things. Buy the hotel if it becomes available and figure out what to do with it later. They could also choose to redevelop into a new hotel...the long rumored boutique hotel. Small but higher priced. Will be interesting to see what happens.I can easily see a straight path for the Monorail to connect into a new parking structure or even maybe another land like a Star Wars Land only accessible by Monorail or Star Tours Shuttle kind of like the Florida Harry Potter Land.
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