Disney facing lawsuit over failed Lake Nona campus
The Walt Disney Co. is being sued by a pair of employees over the company’s botched attempt to relocate the Imagineering headquarters from California to Florida, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Under then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek, the company planned to move 2,000 employees to Lake Nona — a neighborhood of Orlando that’s been booming with redevelopment and growth. But the entertainment company faced push back from employees who didn’t want to work 20 miles from Disney World and leave their homes.
In the end, Disney nixed the move as the company dealt with a political blowback in the Sunshine State while seeing a new leader take charge.
The company was feuding with Gov. Ron DeSantis over the...
