So far it looks like they may sell some of the lots but maintain control of the roadways and the surrounding “buffer” area. I would think they’d be cautious of how this area develops and not want to give up total control.
Except for the whole urban sprawl thing impinging on WDW, like the strip mall development near AKL.
I was thinking about that location. I'm a bit stuck between Homewood suites and Disney Springs Doubletree. I like the newness of Homewood suites, but I'm without a car and going to Homewood would make me 100% dependent on Uber. (Car rentals look crazy expensive for a while.) Also, I'm assuming that there's a relatively good chance that Fastpass and such may return, making the benefits of Doubletree attractive.
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If it’s not their land they don’t really have much control over that. It’s going to be a shopping plaza. I’m assuming/hoping they’ll add a berm in that area now that it’s needed.Off topic but what is being built on 192 next to Texas Roadhouse by Target that is exposing AKL? I don’t think that would be Disney related, yet I’m surprised they are allowing AKL to be exposed like that. Then again, they don’t care about that kind of stuff now a days
Off topic but what is being built on 192 next to Texas Roadhouse by Target that is exposing AKL? I don’t think that would be Disney related, yet I’m surprised they are allowing AKL to be exposed like that. Then again, they don’t care about that kind of stuff now a days
Once it’s all built and landscaped DAK lodges should still feel pretty secluded. It’s just jarring right now because it’s a flat field.
The published site plan shows no landscaping. There is a small strip of grass but otherwise the parking lots and roads go right up to the property line for almost its entire perimeter, including at the apartments closest to the Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge.
I meant on Disney’s side. I’m assuming hoping they install a berm in this area.
I agree, I just meant the area surrounding the development probably going to remain a buffer area (in purple)
Disney is pretty much not allowed to build a traditional berm in this area. You are not allowed to modify your site so that storm water flows onto others’ property. Any berm would likely have to be single sided with a retaining wall along the property line. The distance between the roads and property line also get tight right there at the corner closest to the Lodge, about 25 feet. So this would be a rather intense construction project. It’d be a lot easier if they acquired the property in between (the L shaped patch of dirt is a separate lot), but that too wouldn’t be cheap.
I think they can afford it and the whole development, but they should have bought the land well before the developer began prepping the land.
Afford it? Sure. But they make the people staying at Caribbean Beach look at the Riviera so I don’t think they care about sight lines from the hotels.
Curious to see what they’ll do, hopefully more than nothing like the backside of rat
Probably will look just like Carribean Beach, which has the exact same issue with the backside of Bonnet Creek resort
