Disney has scrapped plans to build a $1bn corporate campus in Florida in its ongoing battle with the state’s governor Ron DeSantis.
Josh D’Amaro, the Walt Disney Company’s parks chief, said in an e-mail to employees on Thursday that “changing business conditions” had prompted it to reconsider its 2021 plan to relocate 2,000 employees to a new campus in Lake Nona.
A week ago, Disney chief executive Bob Iger publicly questioned Florida’s interest in the company’s continued investment in the state.
The decision follows DeSantis’s move to strip Disney of its self-governing powers of its Orlando resort. That, in turn, followed Disney’s criticism of legislation passed by DeSantis that limited the discussion of gender identity and sexuality in elementary schools.
