Disney has not said much of anything regarding the tenants of Disney Springs. It's mostly speculation from what has occurred since Pleasure Island's closing. I personally would be surprised to see most of the new space filled with third party operators just because they have had such difficulties in recent years.
Then where is this grand long list? Why don't you give us ten new third party operators who signed on for Flamingo Crossing and/or the various Downtown Disney projects.
If this is the case I would assume we will see a stop in construction once the garages go up. There is no reason to build a bunch of additional store fronts that will end up vacant. They will likely flesh out the PI area which is already heavily under construction but the main area shown in the concept art that looks like a traditional mall layout would have to be scrapped. I think that's the area in front of where PI is now (in front of T-Rex) that extends out into what was the parking lot/bus stop area. I think it's called Town Center in the original art or something along those lines. They announced that Disney Springs would double the number of stores/restaurants from 75 to 150. The vast majority of the new locations were going to be in the Town Center expansion. I would assume they could keep the new theming for West Side and the Landing area (PI) without building the Town Center. It wouldn't be the first Disney project to change plans half way through.
That may be, but it wouldn't really impact the announcement of tenants. Who puts off going to buy pants because The Gap is going to move in a year or two? The foreign tourists who buy in bulk are also coming now. It's a very now business, not one planned months or years ahead.
These are mostly large businesses. It doesn't get that personal. The current mall has an existing agreement they have to honor, it's not like they can just raise the rent or kick the store out. Exclusivity deals would not be contingent on not making an announcement.
I guess all I'm saying is does anyone actually know for a fact that they have no tenants lined up or is this just all assumptions based on the fact that no tenant list has been announced? From what I'm reading here it's just assumptions. If it's just assumptions then really no new news here. The day after the Disney Springs announcement we started hearing grumblings that they would not find vendors willing to move in. If someone with some inside info can confirm this then that would be news. We'll have to wait and see, but I stand by my other statement. They will not build 75 storefronts and leave them vacant so if they have no tenents then a portion of the project will be canceled. Do they need both parking garages if they aren't significantly expanding the size? Maybe we'll know by the end of the year if they never start building the second garage.
Maybe some were burned by Disney in the past. They had several attempts at new shopping centers that never got off of the ground. If it was me I would wait until I was certain they were actually going through with the plans before publicly admitting to being involved and potentially disrupting my operation in an existing location.
I never really fully understood the desire to bring in all 3rd party vendors (especially for restaurants). I could see having a mix, but there are huge profits in food and especially alcohol. I know they gave up on PI, but not having the large overhead of nightclubs would make it more profitable too.
the scale of the projects going on at WDW and the fact that so few of the fan base are even aware of them. WDWMagic readers are very much the exception to the rule. 
