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That's the mission of Disney's California Adventure, its newest theme park, which opened last week in Anaheim, across the street from the original Disneyland. Theme parks are something Disney has always done well. Last year the parks accounted for about 27% of the company's $25.4 billion in sales and nearly 50% of its $3.2 billion in operating profits. In the company's most recent quarter, "once again, parks and resorts proved to be an extraordinary driver of higher earnings," noted ceo Michael Eisner. The new 55-acre California Adventure is part of a $1.4 billion expansion that...
Outside lies Downtown Disney, an admission-free, quarter-mile-long shopping and dining esplanade for the adults. The mall, which has already proved popular in Florida's Disney World, was designed to attract not only theme-park guests but also local residents and conventiongoers from the newly renovated Anaheim Convention Center nearby. It will offer such grownup attractions as live entertainment at the House of Blues and the world's most elaborate sports bar at ESPN Zone. You will be able to get an adult beverage, both there and in one of the gourmet restaurants in the new park. (What...
...will visit the park in its first year--despite a weakening economy. That's on top of the 14 million that Disneyland already gets. The goal is to make these visitors, many from overseas, feel like they've hit all the tourist high points of California without ever leaving Anaheim...
...learned that the hard way in France, where the overly ambitious Disneyland Paris forced the company to take a write-down in 1993. "We probably built too many hotel rooms and sized the park a little larger than we needed to," admits Pressler. When it came to expanding in Anaheim, he says, "we wanted to make sure we were building smaller than we feel the demand is." Disney left nearly 30 acres vacant for expansion...
Villalobos and Meaney say Vasco introduced Stahl to a man she called Tony Satton, who lived in her condominium complex in Anaheim. The two men allegedly made a deal: some $30,000 for Satton to pull the trigger, feign a robbery attempt or create another diversion and disappear. What Stahl didn't know was that Satton as well was having an affair with Vasco. What Vasco didn't know was that Satton's real name was Dennis Earl Godley of Bellarthur, N.C., that he had a criminal record longer than her arm, that he was on the run from police...