Railroader17 t1_jeb1fpj wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:36 PM

Reply to comment by respondin2u in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Probably didn't help that it was close to a Civil War Battlefield which caused historians to take action against them.

mobilehobo t1_jedy81f wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:32 AM

I saw another comment that said the proposed site is all subdivisions and housing now so that may have just been a convincing argument to win at the time