Disney Assembled Cast Of Buyers To Amass Land Stage For Kingdom
FLASHBACK - ORANGE COUNTY HISTORY
By Mark Andrews, of The Sentinel Staff
May 30, 1993
Working under a strict cloak of secrecy, real estate agents who didn't know the identity of their client began making offers to landowners in southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties in April 1964 - shortly after Walt Disney chose the site for his new theme park.
Careful not to let property owners know the extent of their land-buying appetites, the agents quietly negotiated one deal after another - sometimes lining up contracts to buy