2023-05-18 19:46:14
Disney, in the midst of a political battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, announced Thursday that the group was giving up building a nearly $900 million campus there which was to accommodate employees near its amusement park.
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The group, which recently initiated significant cost reductions, mainly puts forward economic reasons.
But the decision comes once morest a backdrop of strong tensions with local authorities.
Ron DeSantis, a rising star of the American hard right, ended the company’s special status in his state in February.
Disney responded by filing a complaint, saying it was “targeted revenge” once morest the group for denouncing a bill in 2022 that restricted the teaching of subjects related to sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida elementary schools.
The company had announced in July 2021 its intention to ask employees to move to settle in Florida on a new campus, the cost of which, according to press reports, was estimated at the time at $ 864 million.
“This decision was not easy to make, but I believe it is the right one,” noted Josh D’Amaro in the memo on Thursday.
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