The first steel column of the Shanghai Disney Resort Project Administration Building was installed this week at the resort build site.
The Project Administration Building will become the new workplace for a team of approximately 1, 000 Imagineers from Walt Disney Imagineering Shanghai, Disney’s creative specialists who are tasked with designing and building Shanghai Disney Resort.
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The building is targeted to become operational in the first quarter of next year, to coincide with when the resort development will enter a key phase of construction.