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

Reply to comment by Railroader17 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

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