Disney Launches "Storyliving" Neighborhoods, For People wanting more Disney in their Lives

[limitdis]

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/d...rhood-community-storyliving/story?id=82908390"These master-planned communities are intended to inspire residents to foster new friendships, pursue their interests and write the next exciting chapter in their lives -- all while enjoying the attention to detail, unique amenities and special touches that are Disney hallmarks," Disney said in a press release.

 

[Morieris]

I might have been curious if they started with a luxury apartment complex, but not a full fledged community. I have other interests than to want to be in the Disney Bubble all the time - literally.

 

[J-Dog]

Is this one of those communal-type living communities? Where everyone lives in their own house/apartment but everyone congregates in a central area to eat and hang-out?

These seem to be a trendy thing; one is being constructed in our town right now.

If so, it would be a hard pass for me. I like Disney, but I just don't like people enough for that.

 

[DLgal]

This is extremely tone deaf at this particular moment in time. Disney, what are you doing?

 

[larissawbb]

Didn’t they already try this before?

 

[cheryl.UK]

Yep. I remember going to Celebration just as the visitor/sales office opened. The rhetoric then was all about having communal this and that with each 'neighbourhood' having it's own primary school with a Montesori style ethos. Yards were to be small so that people would use communal pools and garden spaces... What they actually got was a large estate that some people viewed as a tourist attraction and very little of the community amenities promised. And then Disney pulled out.

 

[Morieris]

This is extremely tone deaf at this particular moment in time. Disney, what are you doing?

They said "We know how to solve the housing crisis!"

 

[lockets]

Yep. I remember going to Celebration just as the visitor/sales office opened. The rhetoric then was all about having communal this and that with each 'neighbourhood' having it's own primary school with a Montesori style ethos. Yards were to be small so that people would use communal pools and garden spaces... What they actually got was a large estate that some people viewed as a tourist attraction and very little of the community amenities promised. And then Disney pulled out.

Yep. From Wiki’s page on Celebration:

“After founding Celebration, Disney followed its plans to divest most of its control of the town. Several Disney business units continue to occupy the town's office buildings. Walt Disney World operates two utility companies, Smart City Telecom and Reedy Creek Energy Services, that provide services to the town. The town itself is connected to the Walt Disney World resorts via one of its primary streets, World Drive, which begins near the Magic Kingdom. In 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported that Celebration Town Center condominium owners "are battling leaky roofs, balconies that have become separated from the sides of buildings and mold spreading in their walls. Their properties have become so dilapidated, they say, they're having trouble selling them. An April 2016 civil suit seeks to force the Town Center Foundation, a controlling entity under sole direction of Lexin Capital, "which took control of part of Celebration in 2004, to pay for upward of $15 million to $20 million in repairs" which were deferred over ten years.”

 

[lockets]

Is this one of those communal-type living communities? Where everyone lives in their own house/apartment but everyone congregates in a central area to eat and hang-out?

These seem to be a trendy thing; one is being constructed in our town right now.

If so, it would be a hard pass for me. I like Disney, but I just don't like people enough for that.

It was certainly an office space trend pre pandemic where I live. Of course now 50% of workers in my city aren’t even back in the office yet and no one wants to be in the same room as each other. I didn’t know this was a thing in housing. But when I received their email on this I was trying to figure that out and it wasn’t clear. Just seemed to talk about imagineers designing it. But what exactly “it” is IDK… Anyway your comment about people is too funny!

 

[Disneytrippin']

Ahhh yes. Communal living.

 

[PurplePigment]

-- all while enjoying the attention to detail, unique amenities and special touches that are Disney hallmarks," Disney said in a press release.

So, a big price hike for the privilege of having princesses, Marvel, and Star Wars stamped on everything, I'm guessing.

 

[Pupstitch]

I can't even begin to imagine how expensive the market will be especially in the desert in California.

 

[Redart59]

I just watched the video and read the YouTube comments and am a bit confused why people are so mad about it.

I have zero interest in living in California and from the sounds of if couldn’t afford to live there even if I wanted to but I don’t get the hate for those who have interest.

 

[hhisc16]

I hope history does not repeat itself...

 

[Brocktoon]

After all recent cost/business decisions made by Chapek recently along with Disney's history with Celebration ... I can't see there being a huge amount of interest. I guess my advice would be buyer beware

 

[Karin1984]

I'm curious what will happen when there is any kind of crime. Where people live together there is trouble. Imagine a headline like: Murder in Disney community.

 

[Kennywood]

If you thought the average HOA was a pain, just wait for this......

 

[DLgal]

I'm curious what will happen when there is any kind of crime. Where people live together there is trouble. Imagine a headline like: Murder in Disney community.

This isn't going to be an isolated commune or anything. My goodness, it's just a master planned community within an already established city. There are already hundreds of these around. I live in one, our entire city is made up of 34 different "villages" and each one is basically like this to some extent. It's just that Disney is slapping their name on it, rather than any other random HOA.

 

[PlutoIsHere]

After all recent cost/business decisions made by Chapek recently along with Disney's history with Celebration ... I can't see there being a huge amount of interest. I guess my advice would be buyer beware

It feels like people love to be outraged and upset more often than not nowadays. So much. Negativity everywhere all the time.

 

[Karin1984]

This isn't going to be an isolated commune or anything. My goodness, it's just a master planned community within an already established city. There are already hundreds of these around. I live in one, our entire city is made up of 34 different "villages" and each one is basically like this to some extent. It's just that Disney is slapping their name on it, rather than any other random HOA.

My apologies, the concept is foreign to me. I had never heard of such a thing, it doesn't exist in my country.

It came across to me as an isolated perfect community where the sun always shines, birds always sing and nothing ever goes wrong. A bit like Stepford, for people who want to live in a fantasy world.

So, how does this work, a company decides to build a couple of houses, adds some stores, calls it a community with signs everywhere 'sponsored by x'?