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Originally Posted by Locofresh55
I've never seen Casa Grande as having that kind of appeal to draw in projects like this. All desert cities can't be like Dubai or Vegas. This just seems too extravagant to put in Casa Grande.
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Not saying you all are wrong but I lived in Central Florida when Disney decided to build a theme park there in the middle of nowhere about as far south of town as Casa Grande is from Phoenix or Tucson. In those days, not that many people outside Florida had even heard of Orlando. To most, Florida meant Miami or Tampa or maybe Jacksonville.
The problems with this idea are 2 as I see it but location isn't one of them. They are that these developers don't have Disney's resources and especially they don't have Disney's brand. Everybody knew who Mickey Mouse was and back then most families were tuning in to Mckey Mouse Club on TV and had seen all th films and TV shows (Davy Crockett etc). And in the eastern half of the country a lot of kids wished they lived in southern CA so they could go to Disneyland in Anaheim. This Arizona idea doesn't grab the imagination that way. But still, I never say never.