Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus as fight with Gov. Ron DeSantis continues

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Plans for a new Disney campus in Florida are off the table. I'm Lisa dwyer. The Walt Disney Company says it's scrapping plans to build a new campus in Central Florida. The company had planned to relocate about 2000 employees from Southern California to Florida to work in digital technology, finance, and product development. Disney's announcement follows a year of attacks from Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the legislature, Disney filed a First Amendment lawsuit against desantis and other officials last month. Disney had planned to build the campus about 20 miles from the giant Walt Disney World theme park resort, but a company official says in a memo to employees that new leadership and changing business conditions prompted Disney to abandon those plans, I'm Lisa dwyer

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