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If you live in that town and work for Disney you probably think it's working just fine.
by inestyne 9y ago
If you live in that town and work for Disney you probably think it's working just fine.
- kevinh 9y agoFrom the article: > Chris Shively, an Anaheim resident and server at Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland, drives by the Mickey & Friends garage each day knowing that city tax dollars are paying for the facility. > “It’s a company — they have their own best interests,” he said. “But it is definitely something where the company, Disney, got a great deal — a deal that we are paying for. Absolutely frustrating.”
- tomjakubowski 9y agoAnaheim's population is roughly 350k. Disneyland has 22k employees. Obviously, not all of them live in Anaheim; anecdotally, at one time I knew a handful of Disneyland employees and only one of them lived in the city. I'm sure Disney corporate, headquartered in nearish-by Burbank, employs some Anaheim residents too, but you're still talking about a small minority of Anaheim's citizens. It's also not clear why an ordinary Anaheim citizen and employee of Disney would be happy with this arrangement.
- kbart 9y agoI certainly would be pissed finding out that my city officials effectively donated billion to a private company.