There hasn’t been much visible construction progress on The Cake Bake Shop by Gwendolyn Rogers and the Blue Ribbon Corn Dog stand at Disney’s BoardWalk since our last update, but crew members are hard at work inside the new venues.
The Cake Bake Shop by Gwendolyn Rogers
The Cake Bake Shop is taking over the former ESPN Club building at the end of the BoardWalk. Many of the exterior walls were demolished and reconstructed with more windows. Currently, most of the building is covered in purple weather-proof sheathing.
More roofing has been installed in recent weeks. The first tier of the tower’s roof is covered in decking and white sheathing. Behind construction walls, we can see the white frames of windows at the bakery entrance.
The Cake Bake Shop will include a quick-service bakery and a table-service restaurant. The bakery entrance is the old main entrance to ESPN Club. A section of the bakery façade has no sheathing yet, likely because it will be a marquee with lights and signage.
Guests will enter the table-service restaurant through what is currently just a steel framework but will eventually be a white, square entrance archway. A construction vehicle was parked by the entrance. We could hear crew members working behind the construction walls, screwing something in with power tools.
There are pairs of windows on every wall of the tower. There are also windows on the dormers of the roof.
Larger windows are on the walls of the first floor but we haven’t seen doors installed yet.
Blue Ribbon Corn Dog
Rolling planters surround the future Blue Ribbon Corn Dog stand. This used to be a funnel cake stand but Blue Ribbon announced last year that they would be moving in. There is a Blue Ribbon Corn Dog kiosk at Downtown Disney District in California.
The stand was repainted white with pale yellow and blue accents. The dark blue pair of doors was open during this visit and a crew member was working on a power box behind them.
White lightbulbs line the top of the stand. Blue lamps were installed before our last update. Two frame the front of the stand and two frame the marquee.
Large lightbulbs have since been installed in these lamps.
The front window of the stand is currently covered with paper.
The white door on the other side of the building was also open and we saw a crew member entering.
Blue Ribbon Corn Dog and The Cake Bake Shop were originally scheduled to open in 2023 but were delayed until 2024. Blue Ribbon Corn Dog will offer some of the same menu items as the Downtown Disney District location. Disney previously teased the Mexican Street Corn Dog and Pickle Dog, plus lemonade, strawberry lemonade, and fresh spun cotton candy.
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