if you were talking general corporate activities... I'd agree more. But you're talking about the executives who lead over 75k employees.. which is a large portion of the company.. in topics that largely are about employees. They wouldn't be voiceless in such matters.
Magical sweat. Part of the perks of staying onsite lol
True. Lost economic impact to the area: taxes, gasoline, utilities, every day spending, etc.
Well the "hotel" wasn't doing well anyway and was losing money. Might as well cut its losses regarding its WDW expenditures. While the DeSantis admin has a point about Disney stock being down etc., you can't argue with the loss of the economic impact to the area from Disney employees who would otherwise simply live in Central Fla.
Hopefully for the state this is a one off and not the start of a trend. FL spent decades building a business friendly reputation but that’s at best on hold for now and at worst starting to be wiped out completely. All for the benefit of one man’s ego
. We talked about this a year ago when this all started. Many of us thought “cooler heads would prevail”. Many DeSantis backers claimed he didn’t really want to hurt Disney’s business in FL and it was just a stunt and PR. Looks like we were all wrong. Other businesses have taken notice too. I work for a company that does large projects all over the country and FL is on a watch list now for political uncertainty. It doesn’t mean people won’t invest there, just that there’s a higher risk premium on any project making them less appealing.Not surprising , several years ago one proudly boasted on record " We won with the highly educated , we won with the poorly educated , I love the poorly educated". I've read recent posts on Fox on Disney/DeSantis , wow some are really lining up and drinking the Kool-Aid.Everyone buying the PR spin I see. Iger rubbing his hands together.
The cancelling of this project is also in the financial interest of DIS.
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Considering the project was already launched after all the uncertainty commercial real estate was facing post-pandemic... You'd expect that to already be baked in. Disney was looking to build a purpose built campus... not just get A+ office space at the best rate around.
As they say a win win for the mouse
death to apple news URLs - I don't want their stinkin appLead story on the Apple News feed:
Disney cancels plans for $1 billion campus, 2,000 jobs in Florida — Reuters
Walt Disney Co is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in central Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees, according to an e-mail to employees on Thursday, against the backdrop of its ongoing legal battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Fine I’ll put you in touch with my Apple hating son. My point was a lot of people do have them and this is what they’re seeing.death to apple news URLs - I don't want their stinkin app
The problem there will be the housing shortage. California has something like 2.5 well paid jobs for every house that's actually available to purchase.
I just say get the URL from the site instead of apple's lame share. I can't even click the link in my desktop browser without it going to try to install apps. It's not that I hate apple... I hate sites that try to funnel you through their apps instead of the web. Like apple news and podcasts
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Doesn’t Disney own the land already? So if real estate value is dropping isn’t it worth less now if they dump it back on market? Not moving the jobs saves them some relocation costs and obviously the cost of constructing the building but they also lose the tax credits. Short term it’s a financial gain to cancel but long term it’s harder to say.
Okay but my entire point was the positioning of the news article as the lead on Apple’s news feed. I get what you’re saying though.I just say get the URL from the site instead of apple's lame share. I can't even click the link in my desktop browser without it going to try to install apps. It's not that I hate apple... I hate sites that try to funnel you through their apps instead of the web. Like apple news and podcasts
Disney cancels plans for $1 billion campus, 2,000 jobs in Florida
Walt Disney Co is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in central Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees, according to an e-mail to employees.
Class A space is dropping but land will be fine. They will make at least 10% on the purchase
So do WDW CMs, Central Florida housing isn’t much better.
It’s a far superior reading experience than any news media sitedeath to apple news URLs - I don't want their stinkin app
