Disney Springs

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Disney Springs
Disney Springs
Disney Springs logo
Basic data
Location: Walt Disney World Resort
Lake Buena Vista (Florida)
Opening: March 22, 1975 (as Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village)
Total area: 486,000 m²
Owner : The Walt Disney Company
Operator: Walt Disney World
Website: www.disneysprings.com

Disney Springs (originally Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village , from 1977 Walt Disney World Village , from 1989 Disney Village Marketplace and from 1997 Downtown Disney ) is a shopping center with restaurants and entertainment in the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista near Orlando (Florida) . The complex was opened on March 22, 1975 and has since been expanded and renamed several times. It bears the current name Disney Springs since September 29, 2015. The 48.6 hectare complex consists of the four areas Marketplace , The Landing , Town Center and West Side . There are connections with other parts of Walt Disney World by buses and water taxis.

history

Early expansion and multiple changes of name

Aerial view of Disney Springs on May 8, 2016
Balloon Ride Characters in Flight

Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village, opened March 22, 1975, was designed as a shopping mall only. Two years after it opened, it was renamed Walt Disney World Village. Beginning under Michael Eisner's new direction in 1984, Disney looked for ways to keep visitors at Walt Disney World longer and prevent them from enjoying entertainment outside of Disney's leisure complex.

To keep up with the popular Church Street Station clubs in downtown Orlando, Disney announced the Pleasure Island expansion on July 21, 1986, which would create nightclubs where Disney would showcase its quality and creativity wanted to. Construction began the following August, and Pleasure Island opened on May 1, 1989, the same day as Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park . Later that year, the previous Walt Disney World Village was renamed Disney Village Marketplace.

In the mid-1990s, expansions began in Walt Disney World, with one billion US dollars invested in various projects. The first World of Disney store opened on October 2, 1996 in the Marketplace area.

On June 20, 1995, major improvements and additions to the complex were announced. Disney Village Marketplace and Pleasure Island were merged from September 7, 1997 under the new name Downtown Disney. On September 15, the third area, West Side, opened as a 27 hectare extension with shopping, dining and entertainment, including the Cirque du Soleil show La Nouba, the DisneyQuest indoor theme park and Virgin Megastore . The transformation of Mickey's Character Shop into World of Disney created the world's largest Disney store. In addition, the AMC Pleasure Island Theaters were expanded and a Rainforest Café and a Planet Hollywood were opened. The night clubs on Pleasure Island closed on September 27, 2008.

With Downtown Disney, a sister complex was created in the Disneyland Resort in California, which opened on January 12, 2001. Similar complexes had already been opened at other Disney Park locations: Disney Village on April 12, 1992 in Disneyland Resort Paris , Ikspiari in Tokyo Disney Resort on July 7, 2000 and Disneytown in Shanghai Disney Resort .

Renovation, expansion and renaming

The sources ( Engl. Springs) from Disney Springs, view of Town Center of The Landing from, left the welcome center in the gabled house

On March 14, 2013, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs announced that Downtown Disney would be redesigned and renamed Disney Springs. The three-year renovation and expansion project added 150 tenants, and two parking garages and a sales area almost twice as large were created.

The two parking garages were built on the areas of previous parking lots. In addition, new bridges were built to connect Disney Springs with Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort and the individual areas with each other. A high-line structure was erected in the West Side , it serves as a theme and provides shade. A new bus station was built for better transport connections. Furthermore, the Buena Vista Drive was widened and there was a new exit from Interstate 4 directly to Disney Springs. The renaming to Disney Springs took place on September 29, 2015. With the opening of Town Center on May 15, 2016, built south of The Landing on previous parking lots, the construction project was completed.

On March 17, 2020, Disney Springs was initially closed until the end of March due to the coronavirus pandemic . The NBA Experience and NBA Store are also due to close temporarily. According to Disney, it remained to be seen whether some restaurants and shops “might stay open”, but they are not owned by Disney. Unlike previously announced, Disney Springs and Disney's theme parks were still closed on April 3rd.

From May 20, 2020, Disney Springs was reopening in stages.

Areas

Disney Springs consists of four areas: Marketplace, The Landing, Town Center, and West Side. The complex is bordered by Lake Buena Vista to the north and parking garages and spaces to the south. Walt Disney Imagineering drew its inspiration for the design from real-life Florida coastal cities, including St. Augustine and Coral Gables .

Creative Director Dave Hoffman said, "Each neighborhood reflects its function and [the fictional] period in which it was created." According to the fictional history of the city, it was founded by ranchers in the mid-1800s when they found the sources . springs), and the city then expanded from there.

  • Marketplace

  • The Landing

  • Town Center

  • West side

Marketplace

Marketplace contains shops and restaurants in remembrance of the American Craftsman style of the 1930s. This is where the first Earl of Sandwich chain restaurant is located. On October 14th, 2008 the T-Rex Cafe opened, in which there are animatronic dinosaurs . Like the Rainforest Cafe there, it belongs to Landry's restaurants. In 2015 the Marketplace Causeway was built and opened, it spans the Village Lake and connects the Rainforest Cafe with the Lego Store.

The Landing

The Landing is the fictional transport hub and port of the city. There are restaurants and shops with a maritime theme, including Jack Lindsey's Hangar Bar, a cellar bar based on the Indiana Jones films, and The Boathouse with a port for amphibious vehicles , which allows trips across Lake Buena Vista.

The Landing's location was previously Pleasure Island, a nighttime entertainment district with two comedy clubs and four dance clubs. These closed on September 27, 2008. On November 18, 2010, Disney announced a project called Hyperion Wharf to replace Pleasure Island. For this purpose, there would have been extensive renovations and a change of theme to an entertainment district with a quay theme. Restaurants and shops would also have been added. In July 2011 it was announced that these plans would be delayed. The plans were later abandoned because it seemed better to overtake Downtown Disney. As part of the Disney Springs announcement, Pleasure Island was re-themed as The Landing in 2015.

The Empress Lilly

The former Empress Lilly , now the Paddlefish restaurant

The structure, which was originally called Empress Lilly , is a paddle- wheeled riverboat building on Village Lake. It is 67 meters long and 19 meters wide.

It opened on May 1, 1976 when it was christened by Walt Disney's widow Lillian Disney , after whom it is named. There were four entertainment and dining areas. In the mid-1990s, Levy Restaurants signed a contract to operate the “ship” for twenty years. The Empress Lilly was closed on April 22, 1995, the interior fittings and the paddle wheel were removed without replacement. On March 10, 1996, the Fulton's Crab House restaurant opened there. In 2016 the restaurant was renovated and reopened as Paddlefish. As part of the renovation work, the facade was changed, and new chimneys and paddle wheels were installed.

Town Center

Town Center is the fictional main business district of the city. The area was built in the Spanish colonial style of the 1920s. This is also where the man-made springs Disney Springs was named after are located.

The area was built on former parking lots and opened in 2016. Many well-known shops have branches there. The area will open in several phases, the first phase stores opened on May 15, 2016. These include branches of Anthropology , Uniqlo , Sephora , L'Occitane en Provence , Pandora , UGG, Johnston & Murphy, Zara , Kate Spade and Trophy Room .

West side

West Side represents the city's exhibition center in the style of the 1950s.

The expansion of the existing AMC Theater Pleasue Island 24 opened in 1997 together with Downtown Disney West Side. Renovations began at the end of 2010. Since then, food has also been sold in the cinemas. It was also renamed AMC Downtown Disney. In 1997 Disney had a plan to open an entertainment complex called Planet Movies by AMC, combining the Planet Hollywood restaurant with the existing cinema. However, the plan failed due to Planet Hollywood's financial problems. The complex is now called AMC Disney Springs 24. The DisneyQuest indoor theme park was located in the West Side until it was closed on July 2, 2017. This was demolished and replaced by the NBA Experience, which opened on August 12, 2019. There is also a plan to reopen the theater that hosted the La Nouba show with a new Cirque du Soleil show that “will pay homage to Disney’s rich history of animation with a vivid story such as only the Cirque you can tell Soleil. "

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Panoramic views of The Springs and The Landing as seen from Town Center

Incidents

  • On December 25, 2015, a fight broke out in Bongo's Cuban Cafe between a 70-year-old man and employees of the restaurant. The man was escorted out of the cafe after he tore an employee's biceps. He was later arrested outside a Starbucks store. During the fight, someone falsely reported a shot in the restaurant, as the rumor spread quickly, causing mass panic. No weapon was found on the suspect and he was charged with assault.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Walt Disney World Diversifies Entertainment at Florida Park. . In: St. Petersburg Times , February 10, 1997. Retrieved September 18, 2015. 
  3. ↑ Smith, Dave. Page 620. Disney A to Z - The Updated Official Encyclopedia. 1998. Retrieved from Ken Polsson: Chronology of Walt Disney World (1995-end) . Ken Polsson. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ Crystal blue waters flow through the center of Disney Springs . Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  5. ^ A b Brooks Barnes: Disney Announces Overhaul to Its Retail Complex in Orlando ... Again. . In: The New York Times , March 14, 2013. 
  6. ↑ Disney Springs . In: wdwmagic.com . Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ The New Disney Springs Bus Loop is Now Open for Disney Resort Guests ( en-us ). Accessed September 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Disney Springs FAQ: Roadwork | Walt Disney World Resort . Archived from the original on September 11, 2016.
  9. ^ Dewayne Bevil: Downtown Disney name change kicks in today . Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  10. ^ A b Corinne Andersson: PHOTOS: Disney Tidbits Disney Springs . May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ Disney Springs closing company-owned restaurants, stores ( s ) Retrieved on March 19, 2020th
  12. ↑ Daniel Dahm: Coronavirus: Disney closes resort hotels, shops at Disney Springs ( en ) March 16, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  13. ↑ Disney halting annual pass payments while parks are closed, refunding some payments , WFTS-TV. April 3, 2020. 
  14. ↑ Matt Simon: Disney Springs Begins Phased Reopening on May 20 . In: Disney Parks Blog . May 7, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
  15. ↑ a b c d e f Disney Springs: The story behind Disney World's former Downtown Disney . In: USA Today , June 1, 2016. 
  16. ↑ PHOTOS - Disney Springs Marketplace causeway construction . In: wdwmagic.com . Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  17. ↑ Darcy Clark: The Village Causeway Opens to Guests at Downtown Disney Marketplace at Walt Disney World Resort . Disney Parks Blog. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  18. ↑ Disney Imagineering details Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar . In: Orlando Sentinel , February 10, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2016. 
  19. ^ Disney to convert Pleasure Island into wharf-themed district . In: tribunedigital-orlandosentinel . Retrieved November 18, 2010.
  20. ↑ Hyperion Wharf delayed: Disney says its Hyperion Wharf project, which was to replace Pleasure Island, has been delayed . In: tribunedigital-orlandosentinel . Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  21. ↑ Disney officially announce Disney Springs . In: wdwmagic.com . Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  22. ↑ a b Looking Back At The Empress Lilly . Retrieved November 5, 2015.
  23. ↑ Paddlefish Opens in Fall 2016 at Disney Springs . In: Disney Parks Blog . Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  24. ↑ Deanna Ferrante: Disney is literally putting the 'springs' in Disney Springs with new 'natural' water feature . Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  25. ↑ Jennifer Fickley-Baker: All in the Details: Putting the 'Springs' Into Disney Springs ( en-us ) Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  26. ^ Dewayne Bevil: Town Center is next phase of Downtown Disney project - Orlando Sentinel . In: OrlandoSentinel.com . May 12, 2015. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  27. ↑ More than 30 stores and restaurants coming to Disney Springs . In: Orlando Attractions Magazine . Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  28. ↑ Town Center is Now Open at Disney Springs . In: Disney Parks Blog . Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  29. ↑ AMC Disney Springs 24 with Dine-in Theaters . AMC theaters. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  30. ↑ Chip Skambis: DisneyQuest to close Sunday . Cox Media Group. July 2, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
  31. ↑ Dewayne Bevil: Video: DisneyQuest demolition . October 20, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  32. ↑ Pictures: NBA Experience Opens at Disney Springs . Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  33. ↑ NBA Experience Opens at Disney Springs ( en ) Retrieved on August 14 of 2019.
  34. ^ New Cirque du Soleil Show in Development for Disney Springs (en-us) . In: Disney Parks Blog . Retrieved October 26, 2018. 
  35. ↑ Deputies: 70-year-old man's scuffle about food led to chaotic scene at Disney Springs . Retrieved December 27, 2015.

Web links

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