Please explain

[kendo911]

I am a new member and keep hearing about the possible Contemp announcement. While reading the threads I see one about Eagle Pines that did not make it.

What was the plans
What is done with the property now

Thanks

 

[Sammie]

3. Disney’s Villas at Eagle Pines, Walt Disney World
Welcome to the Disney Vacation Club resort on a 61-acre site along the award-winning Disney’s Eagle Pines Golf Course, in the northwest part of the massive Walt Disney World Resort. Enjoy the charm and elegance of Florida’s “Golden Age.”


Go back to the Florida of a hundred years ago at Disney’s Villas at Eagle Pines.
The resort looks as if it were designed by Addison Mizner (1872-1933), architect of Florida hotels and mansions where America’s early-20th-century elite could escape for the winter season. In places like Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Mizner’s Spanish Revival architecture combined Spanish, Moorish, Romanesque and Gothic forms, surrounded with tropical landscaping, to create an indigenous Florida style. (The actual architect for Disney’s Villas at Eagle Pines is Graham Gund, who also designed Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort and Disney’s Vero Beach Resort.)

The main building of the resort is a six-story, 270,000-square-foot “inn.” That’s where you’ll find the check-in area, the restaurant and lounge, the feature pool with a themed slide, retail space, an arcade, a common living room area, and a health club. The “inn” building and ten four-story Villa buildings provide a total of 800,000 square feet of space for 600 vacation home accommodations. Your room could have a pool view, forest view, or golf course view. If you want some outdoor exercise, try the tennis and basketball courts. Your kids will enjoy the playground.

There’s only one problem with the Villas at Eagle Pines. Although it was officially announced, it was never built.


Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa has an upstate New York theme.
On July 23, 2001, just 40 days before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Disney Vacation Development (DVD) announced plans for a huge timeshare resort at the Eagle Pines golf course, to be opened spring/summer 2004.

After September 11 and the downturn in attendance at Walt Disney World, Disney shut down the already floundering Villas at the Disney Institute, a resort comprised of various vacation apartments from the 1970s. The Disney Institute’s personal education, arts, and cultural enrichment programs for the public had already ended.

The programs of the Disney Institute had been modeled after the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. A decade earlier, Michael Eisner had chosen renowned architect Thomas Beeby to design the Disney Institute’s core buildings, which would be built in the middle of the older vacation apartments. Although Beeby did not copy the Chautauqua Institution’s National Historic Landmark architecture, he captured the tranquil character of Chautauqua through architectural elements that one would find in upstate New York locations.

On January 24, 2002, Disney officially announced a new Disney Vacation Club near Downtown Disney. It would reuse the existing Disney Institute main campus buildings and infrastructure. There was neither a name nor any concept art for the new resort.

With Beeby’s relatively new Disney Institute campus becoming the core of the new Disney Vacation Club resort, its upstate New York theme was set. (You don’t mess up the work of a renowned architect any more than you would altar the canvas of a renowned painter.) In September 2002, Disney announced the name Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa, and that its theme would be the New York horse-racing town of Saratoga Springs.

Neither announcement said that the Eagle Pines plan was sidetracked, but that’s what happened. Disney was still on target to open a huge, new, stand-alone DVC resort spring/summer 2004, but it would now be at the former Disney Institute site, and it wouldn’t use the theme of Florida’s “Golden Age.”

Disney announced the Eagle Pines resort, but they never “unannounced“ it. For years, it seemed as if the Eagle Pines plans could be dusted off some day. But that ended in March 2007 when The Walt Disney Company announced that Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts would develop a luxury hotel and fractional ownership homes on a 900-acre site that includes the Eagle Pine Golf Course, the Osprey Ridge Golf, and surrounding land. As part of that plan, the Osprey Ridge Golf Course will be upgraded, while the Eagle Pines Golf Course will be bulldozed for luxury single- and multi-family vacation homes.

 

[spiceycat]

Sammie you are good!!!

do you have the information on the one that Marriott took in California and Paris... okay they are years (and I mean years) older....

so would be surprised if anything on the internet.

 

[tjkraz]

That information was taken from Werner Weiss's Yesterland.com. Here is a link to the page:

http://www.yesterland.com/dvcnever.html

Probably better to link to it rather than a copy & paste without giving credit.

 

[dan and scott]

Eagle Pines... one can only dream................!!!
--probably would have plunked down some $$$$

seems like just yesterday DVC announced it

Scott

 

[CarolA]

(And anyone wonder if DVC Hawaii could be the next Eagle Pines?)

 

[Sammie]

That information was taken from Werner Weiss's Yesterland.com. Here is a link to the page:

http://www.yesterland.com/dvcnever.html

Probably better to link to it rather than a copy & paste without giving credit.

the credit was with the photo link.

 

[Sammie]

Sammie you are good!!!

do you have the information on the one that Marriott took in California and Paris... okay they are years (and I mean years) older....

so would be surprised if anything on the internet.

The info is from yesterland.com as was the photo.