DznyRktekt
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Great memories of listening to Future Corps use that breezeway for an acoustical amplifier.
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News New Park Entrance coming to Epcot
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Great memories of walking into Sunrise Terrace.
trainplane3
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Sounds like a good idea to remove a roof because Florida never ever gets rain and people never like to take breaks from the sun.
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tparris
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I’ve been wondering, how are they going to handle the demo of West, but keep the breezeway open? Unless they open a backstage path for guests to use temporarily?
At a hunch demolish enough of the building to build a walkway. Close the rest and demo that. Kind of like Leave a Tombstone.
Such a wrong decision.
tparris
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I’m curious as to how they’re going to demolish the roof of the breezeway. If they demolish half of the building first, the breezeway roof would be coming down with it
Notes from Neverland
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Let's hope there's more natural shade added or Epcot's concrete jungle might be getting even worse to tolerate.
It’s an over engineered steel framed behemoth. The roof will come down when they want it to.
For example they could remove the Art of Disney which was a 1994 addition, make that a pathway to the Seas, remove everything around to Fountainview, open the breezeway path that’s now minus a roof, demolish Fountainview and Club Cool, then reroute the path back to where the breezeway used to be.
One things for sure. The numerous, easy to capture photos of the impending demise will make for uneasy viewing for many people. Myself included.
tparris
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Do you know how long it will be, after the closure, until they start demoing?
That I do not.
tparris
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I’m hoping to make it back before that happens, so hopefully later
DreamfinderGuy
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My money is on January. Most big projects start after the holidays
BoarderPhreak
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I'm thinking January too. I'll be there in December. 
DreamfinderGuy
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My big question is why. What’s the appeal to taking down CC West when the space is massive and easily expandable? Seems like it would be cost effective and much more appealing just to retrofit rather than destroy and rebuild.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Could they have put the rumored festival center somewhere in the existing building?
HauntedMansionFLA
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People in the construction business say is easier and cheaper to knock down and rebuild. Plus, you have fire codes etc. ect.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Food and Wine ends November 23.
Rich Brownn
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My understanding is to open up the view, so people can see the attractions beyond.
This is quite true. It is not a universal constant for every project, but I have seen numerous projects made much more expensive, complicated, etc., due to an ARB or HPS requiring a remodel vs demo and new construction.
Absolutely