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saying about why it s pulling this project? reporter: well, jake, i received a memo from a disney spokesperson today written by the disney chairman of parks experiences and products, josh demaro, not naming desantis. but i do want to read you part of that statement because they give this reason. given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with the construction of the campus. this was not an easy decision to make but i believe it is the right one. so there were already some of these 2,000 people who already started to move to florida. they said that they would work individually case by case for their options including the option of moving back here to southern california, where those employees will remain in burbank in the los angeles area. you used the word mousetrap. that is actually also the terminology used by the trump campa ....
They posted about this as well. now, to make a point from this memo, d amaro also wanted to mention that they will still invest $17 billion and create 13,000 jobs at walt disney world over the next ten years. so really saying that they are committed to this flagship resort. this comes actually on the same day of a separate announcement that they re shutting down their star wars galactic star cruiser. it s only been open for about a year. a premium experience where guests spent two nights voyaging through the galaxy. and that was a surprise decision, to close that down. so a lot of different messages coming out at the same time today, jake. that sucks. i wanted to do that. has governor desantis responded at all to disney s move about this $1 billion, 2,000-job project being pulled? yes. a spokesperson from his office responded to our colleague steve contorino with this statement saying, disney announced the ....