HobbitFoot t1_jeah2hl wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:26 PM

Reply to comment by wickethewok in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Disney probably got burnt out on its expansion program, including trying and failing to build a theme park in Virginia.

DavoTB t1_jeaphjp wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:20 PM

Poor choice of location near the Civil War battlefield, but otherwise, not a bad thought…would’ve been popular otherwise.

ultragoodname t1_jeb2134 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:40 PM

The land were they were originally gonna put the park is now a bunch of suburbs

ModifiedAmusment t1_jecvcoi wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:11 AM

Yea, Dominion Valley off rt15

Minion_Soldier t1_jebn672 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:54 PM

If we can't build things anywhere in Virginia that could be considered a "historic site", then basically the entire state should be off limits for new construction. And considering the planned Disney site is now subdivisions and data centers, I have doubts the site really had much historic value.