What happened to Disney's America Park?

[ArielRae]

Found this video about Disney's America

 

[Robo]

The residents of the area did not want Disney to build it.
This was a huge news story that lasted for many months back when it was happening (years ago.)

BTW, it is completely misleading calling it "abandoned."
It never happened at all.
The PLAN to build it was abandoned... not the park (which simply never was, to begin-with.)

 

[anditoo72]

That was pretty cool to see, thanks for posting!!!

 

[minnie mum]

I assume the question in your title was rhetorical, since they explained in the video why the park was never built. And I agree that the wording is misleading, since the park never got past the planning stage.

 

[Criickette]

Disney's America would have been great! The concept was awesome and it would have been relatively close to Washington, DC...and Colonial Williamsburg. Plus many of WDW's visitors come from the mid-Atlantic states. Aahh, what could have been.

 

[Taylor Nicole]

This video is apart of his Abandoned series, that's why abandoned is in the title.

 

[klmall]

I remember when I first read about the possible building of this park about 1 hour from our home. We were so excited but knew, given the required construction, changes in traffic patterns etc. that it would never happen! It was set to be built in an area without adequate roads etc.

If the possible disturbance of a fairly common type of butterfly in an adjoining wetlands area completely stops the building of a necessary, long- planned and approved highway then a big amusement park would be the equivalent of threatening to drop a 'nuclear bomb' in that area.

You have to understand that the Washington, DC metropolitan region is very unique (I lived there for more than 50 years). Almost everything local is actually national in scope with hundreds of powerful, educated lawyers and action groups and the federal government resident in most neighborhoods.

Off topic but illustrates my point: my sister-in-law in Junction City, Kansas, a good sized town called and asked me if it was okay for a public high school to make a PA announcement during the school day that free Bibles were available for students to pick up at lunch in the cafeteria. This kind of thing would NEVER happen in most schools in the DC metro region; it wouldn't even cross a public official's mind to consider it.

 

[Criickette]

You have to understand that the Washington, DC metropolitan region is very unique (I lived there for more than 50 years). Almost everything local is actually national in scope with hundreds of powerful, educated lawyers and action groups and the federal government resident in most neighborhoods.

Off topic but illustrates my point: my sister-in-law in Junction City, Kansas, a good sized town called and asked me if it was okay for a public high school to make a PA announcement during the school day that free Bibles were available for students to pick up at lunch in the cafeteria. This kind of thing would NEVER happen in most schools in the DC metro region; it wouldn't even cross a public official's mind to consider it.

I agree that DC has a very unique "vibe". I had many job interviews and offers in thee area post grad school. Money was amazing but no way did I feel comfortable with this area and the persona that it tried to project. Was strange (my only way to describe it). However, a lot of the DC area could use some help so something like this could have benefited it greatly.

Small note about the "PA announcement", that would never be accepted where I live either.