Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus, cancels mass employee relocation

[Joe Cool]

Source: CNBC

Disney will no longer be moving forward with the construction of its Lake Nona, Florida, employee campus.
The company will also no longer be requiring California-based employees to relocate.
The announcement comes amid a bitter feud between the company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis centered in part around the company’s special district and development plans.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/18/disney-scraps-lake-nona-florida-campus.html

[riversedge]

1. I would venture to say that CA employees not eager to move to DeSantis Church-aka Florida!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. That was 8 buildings, 2,000 employees, and an $864,000,000 investment. Desantis cheers

Floridians are horrified at the damage DeSaintless is doing to Florida.

[lapfog_1]

5. and all because Disney refused to discriminate against gay and trans people

as required by Ron DeStupid - mini dictator of Floriduh

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. magats think they are winning by restricting dirty bombs and "perverts"

(emphasis added)

Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus, mass employee relocation amid DeSantis feud
2023-05-18. · 15 of 15
jeffersondem to tkocur
I like DeSantis, but I never thought that his pushback on Disney would result in success this soon.

Apparently thousands of Disney perverts will not be moving to Florida - that means they will not be voting in Florida!

Why didn't other Republicans think of taking action before.

And DeSantis has stopped Disney from getting its hands on nuclear materials without state oversight. The last thing Florida needs is material for dirty bombs floating around in Disney's swamps unsupervised.

[lapfog_1]

32. think of the manatees

which the "woke" crowd were going to ask about their pronouns!

[tanyev]

38. Newsflash for them, people don't fly in from all over the world for Busch Gardens.

Now I personally liked Busch Gardens, more than Disney World in fact, but I’m sure it’s one of many, many attractions that gets business because it’s something tourists decided to do in addition to visiting Disney parks.

[CentralMass]

6. Yet Ron D seems to have a lock on votes in the state.

[MOMFUDSKI]

23. This cretin is SO

fucking up my State of Florida. I would think the biz world is taking a good look at this anti-biz short guy. Will see how bruised he gets before this is all over.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Put that in your "anti-woke" pipe and shove it up your ass Deathsantis. Fuck that clown. Sideways.

[Cronezilla]

17. Anyone here remember the movie "Little Nicky"w/ Adam Sandler?

*Go pick your pineapple, Ron! Preferably a green one, 8 lbs minimum!*

[Comfortably_Numb]

22. Not familiar but lmao at the mental image.

[geardaddy]

36. Here you go.

LOL

[Cronezilla]

46. That's the one!

Thank you SO much for posting this, geardaddy!

[geardaddy]

49. You bet!

[oldsoftie]

4. How much did THAT cost your state, dickhead?

[cactusfractal]

7. Wannabe tyrant DeSantis needs to...

water the tree of liberty.

Today.

[PortTack]

8. I hope that doesn't mean Disney thinks it isn't going to be successful in their law suit!

[ificandream]

13. I think it's a signal that Disney is on the offensive.

This and the lawsuit are clear signs to DuhSantis that Disney isn't taking his shit lying down.

[PortTack]

33. Thx!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. LOL

Disney cancels planned Florida campus in Lake Nona

Company cited "new leadership and changing business conditions," a memo said.


By Max Zahn
May 18, 2023, 2:27 PM

Disney announced on Thursday that it canceled plans for a new campus near Orlando, Florida.

The development was planned for the Lake Nona region.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.



Disney is the parent company of ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/disney-cancels-planned-florida-campus-lake-nona/story?id=99434592

Disney cancels plan to move 2,000 workers to Florida amid DeSantis fight

By Ryan Faughnder Company Town Senior Editor
May 18, 2023 11:15 AM PT


Walt Disney Co. has canceled its plan to open a new Florida campus that would’ve relocated some 2,000 employees to the state, a change that comes as the company is engaged in a long brawl with the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. The company in July 2021 said it planned to move staffers, including many theme park designers (known as Imagineers) and consumer products workers, to new office space in the Orlando community of Lake Nona to take advantage of roughly $570 million in tax breaks.

Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney’s parks, experiences and products division, on Thursday said in an email to staff that the relocation is no longer happening, citing “new leadership and changing business conditions.”

“Given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project, including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with construction of the campus,” D’Amaro said. “This was not an easy decision to make, but I believe it is the right one. As a result, we will no longer be asking our employees to relocate.”

While some employees have already moved to Central Florida, the plan faced considerable pushback from other workers, especially as the political climate in the state became openly hostile toward Disney and DeSantis embraced legislation that many people viewed as anti-LGBTQ+.

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-05-18/disney-cancels-plan-to-move-2-000-workers-to-florida-amid-desantis-fight

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Who is surprised by this?

Iger and Disney are going to cut back on investment in Florida

[sakabatou]

11. No one should be

Makes me wonder where any new investments would be.

[CincyDem]

12. He said as much in the most recent earning call.

Something to the effect of …we’ve got 17 billion of spending on the books for Florida upgrades and expansions over the next 10 years. We are exploring options for that spending that we’re not even thought of 2-3 years ago.

[ificandream]

14. Yup. You don't mess with the Mouse.

[Cha]

15. TY for that.

[Cha]

16. Yeah, Why Should Disney Invest

more in Florida when deSatan is going around spewing Lies about them.

Saying "Disney has a Jihad against him and is bad for all of Florida."

Little ronniie pudding fingers also has his fingers in Florida's pension fund.

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

27. BOOM! Disney to DeSantis.....

BOOM! Disney to DeSantis.....

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Cha]

29. BOOM is Right! TY rivers!!

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Warpy]

18. If the next governor is a fundagelical Republican

I can see them relocating, completely, removing the attractions and selling the bare buildings and landscaped grounds to a consortium of megachurch preachers to turn it into a fabulous bible theme park.

I would suspect Disney is even now scouting properties in saner states with decent weather year round.

[moose65]

20. Yep

Wouldn't Arizona and Nevada be good candidates?? I think so!

Or I wish Disney would build something in Wyoming and help turn that state blue, but it's probably too cold.

[Warpy]

34. Too close to CA and too hot most of the year

I'm thinking GA, SC, even AL or MS. All are temperate during the winter, at least near the coast, and even more accessible to tourists from eastern high population centers.

[machoneman]

19. Many here say well, he won't be the governor forever. True, but the R's here are raising a new...

batch of similarly brainless, authoritarian and people-skill-less future DeSatans. Yeah, he may be gone, but we may get worse!

[IronLionZion]

21. DeathSentence is such a job creator

One has to question the value of attacking a company that is popular with many American families of all types. People love Disney.

[MOMFUDSKI]

24. rethugs have a very

narrow range.

[riversedge]

25. BOOM! Disney to DeSantis.....

BOOM! Disney to DeSantis.....

Link to tweet

?s=20

[usonian]

26. Number of Californians who were excited about lower taxes in Florida and losing all their rights?

Hint: Look at the L.A. Lakers roster.



They don't seem to want that lower tax.

[Biophilic]

28. Just once I'd like to see DeSantis do something

Positive for Florida. So far it’s all for Ron and screw the rest of you peasants.

[padah513]

30. Yep and I want to see how he spins this.

[PortTack]

35. Right now...since he said Disney was bringing jihad against him and Disney was a danger to all of

Fl I imagine he’ll spin it as a very good thing.

He’s brain dead

[onethatcares]

44. he says the voters want this

the fuck, we want decent housing, jobs, homeowners insurance, clean water and air, and un corrupted representatives.

[tanyev]

37. Wompity womp.

[Kennah]

39. Mickey says hi

[mn9driver]

40. FAFO, Ronnie.

Too bad for the people of Florida that you are a slow learner.

[dalton99a]

41. But no one could have foreseen this

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Heckuva job DeShithead

[Linda Ed]

43. Desantis won'tn make it to first base

with a VP candidate like her...Besides that, his lawsuit with Disney is going to squash him after Disney let go of it's extension of Disney for billions of dollars and will lose 20,000 employees in Florida because of it... He best stay right where he is and fight his court battles and be a loser in his next election

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. California Governor Gavin Newsom out with a statement this afternoon, praising Disney

Link to tweet

[Karma13612]

47. I would not be at all surprised

If there had been some MAJOR push-back from those employees ear-marked for the move.

Going from super blue progressive California to America’s answer to Gilead?

Yea, I bet some were threatening to quit instead of taking the transfer.

[pstokely]

48. and the FL talent pool probably wasn't large enough to replace employees who wouldn't move from CA

but with remote work, does it even matter? how many people moved from CA when Toyota when went to Dallas and Nissan went to Nashville?