Originally Posted By fan-o-fun My husband recently responded to a search by Disney for Program Director and Project Managers for a venture here in Texas...
Originally Posted By SuperDry Could this be for the Adventures By Disney or whatever those travel tours are? Or, perhaps DCL will be making stops in Galveston sometime in the future. I doubt that this has anything to do with building a theme park in Texas.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I would have thought either a DTD in Austin, Houstin or Dallas is quite feasible, or a DVC Dude ranch.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey Everyone knows that Disney is going to build their first completely submerged park here in New Orleans once we sink into the Gulf of Mexico .
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Wasn't there also a waterpark built on the site of Disney's America? I remember seeing the story about what happened after Disney bailed out. Yeah, what's there now is a WHOLE lot better than a theme park, right?
Originally Posted By danyoung Looking on the Disney careers website, they have several listings in the Dallas area for radio positions, and one as a secretary to a consumer advocate in Houston. Nothing about a park, tho. . .
Originally Posted By PITis2cool4you dude, i think its tottally freaking cool that disneyland is gonna be in texas! there needs to be another park and texas is the best place for it! b/c its the 2nd largest state, and no one wants to go to alaska (biggest state) b/c its so flippin cold up there. and its out of the way. b/c you either have to drive or fly and if you drive you have to go through canada wich then you have to deal with passports and all that junk so i think Texas is the best place to build disneyland michelle
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^^ It's just a rumor, pit. Disney is not building parks in Texas anytime soon.
Originally Posted By Mickey4President I was telling my mom about this post and she reminded me of another one that I had forgotten about in my last post. She said at one time Disney was going to put a park near Decatur TX. She said according to her cousin, who was a realator in Decatur at the time, that Disney even came out and looked at some land. For those that don't know, Decatur is north west of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. According to her, the deal was x'd as soon as they saw how many oil wells were on the land.
Originally Posted By danyoung >She said according to her cousin, who was a realator in Decatur at the time, that Disney even came out and looked at some land.< With all due respect to your mom and her cousin, I really doubt that Disney would be looking at land under the Disney name. Remember how they bought all the land in Florida under a variety of assumed names? And how as soon as it was revealed that it was Disney making the purchases, the cost for the surrounding land shot up sky high? I just don't see Disney coming into any area and saying "Hi, we're Disney, and we're looking to buy land".
Originally Posted By Mickey4President "With all due respect to your mom and her cousin, I really doubt that Disney would be looking at land under the Disney name. Remember how they bought all the land in Florida under a variety of assumed names? And how as soon as it was revealed that it was Disney making the purchases, the cost for the surrounding land shot up sky high? I just don't see Disney coming into any area and saying "Hi, we're Disney, and we're looking to buy land"." Thank you for helping me prove the point that I was trying to make with my last post. Eventhough, her cousin is a realtor,and would know about anyone buying a large amount of land in Decatur, Disney wouldn't say it was for Disney even if they did look at land in Texas. So for this Texan who longs to see a Disney catle in the Lone Star State, until I see that castle being built, it's all just entertaining rumors.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 This rumor has been around since at least the early 80s. I remember hearing it as a child from cast members at Silver Dollar City near Branson, saying Disney was trying to compete for Branson's tourism dollars by building a park closer to it.
Originally Posted By mabber The Disney Co. Has purchased property in the North Frisco area. They also purchased property in the New Braunfels area ten years ago. Plans are to build a Texas Themed resort with a park in both locations. The New Braunfels resort will try to pull of of the local waterpark and also the parks in the San Antonio area. The Frisco area Resort will be larger then the failing Six Flags set up. It will also have a very large Hotel and two smaller ones. The biggest sign will be the extended Hotels around Frisco. You will see that they are building very quickly. The new park is to have a large open air theater to go along with rock concerts and ABC television productions.
Originally Posted By danyoung mabber, that's an awful lot of information that no one else has ever heard a hint of. Do you mind backing up your information?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< The Disney Co. Has purchased property in the North Frisco area. >>> This should be very easy to track down. Most appraisal districts have searchable online tax rolls, including Collin County TX where Frisco is located. There's only one piece of property in the county whose owner has "Disney" in the name, and it appears to be a residence. In case "North Frisco area" is actually in the county to the north, I searched there too (in Greyson County). Nothing there owned by Disney. If you think the Disney Co owns land in these areas, please provide a link to the entry on the tax rolls that support this. This should be very easy to do. Maybe you can tell us what the name of the holding company is, or in what other county this is in, if I have those details wrong. Plus, then we'd get to see how big the plot of land is.
Originally Posted By Labuda "mabber, that's an awful lot of information that no one else has ever heard a hint of. Do you mind backing up your information?" hehe Yeah, that'll happen!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Number of mabber posts to date: 1 I'd bet money his/her job is to perpetuate rumors on the internet. LOL.
Originally Posted By mabber I just copied & pasted that information from another website. I have no idea if it's true. I do live in Frisco and have heard about Disney buying land there but that's all I know.
