Crews have painted most of the new Disney Vacation Club tower at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort as construction continues.
DVC Tower Construction
Since our last update, many of the balcony walls facing the lagoon have been painted dark brown. The base color is a lighter shade of orange-tan. The white sections on the right wing are primer for future color.
Scaffolding covers the right wing (or north wing). We saw a few crew members on the first two floors when we passed by on a boat this week. The bottom floors of this wing have yet to be painted with color or primer.
Metal overhangs line the top of the DVC tower. These will eventually be covered in paneling.
The structures on the center of the building’s roof are also mostly unpainted. While most of the building is tan-orange with dark brown accents, the top two floors in the center are a light cream.
A boom lift reached into a large opening in the building.
One crew member was in the lift, working on the ceiling of this area. Past the lift were unpainted concrete walls.
Another crew member was on a partially painted section of wall below the lift.
The windows and sliding glass doors are mostly free of protective tarps, indicating painting around them is complete.
We did see one paint-splattered tarp over a sliding glass door near the top of the building.
Other crew members were working inside a large square opening. There is a metal framework around this square that has yet to be covered.
The walls inside are unpainted. The crew members were atop scaffolding filling the space.
More scaffolding is on the balconies running between the center of the building and the south wing.
These balconies and the surrounding walls are also unpainted. We previously saw doors installed on the balconies. They have temporary wood railings. Concept art indicates these will be covered in plants.
The south wing is almost completely painted. Two columns of balcony walls are not dark brown yet.
This wing faces the tower’s future pool, which is outlined in concrete.
We can clearly see the shallow and deeper ends of the pool. The land around it is flattened dirt with tubes sticking out.
One crew member was working at the deep end.
More crew members were in a circle of wood that’s in the ground nearby.
This may be for another water feature or water retention.
A restaurant and bar are on the first floor near the pool. The bar is outlined in circles of concrete within a giant gazebo structure.
Some crew members were working in and around the dining venue. A digger was right outside, being used to move dirt.
Crew members were behind the piles of dirt, doing work in the ground we couldn’t see.
More crew members were working on the concrete at the other end of the restaurant. A future wall is outlined with wooden sticks in the ground.
From the Walt Disney World Monorail, we saw more temporary fencing running along the sidewalk that leads to the DVC tower.
Due to construction, guests cannot currently walk from the hotel to Magic Kingdom or vice versa.
While scaffolding covers both wide sides of the south wing, it doesn’t wrap around the end, which is mostly orange-tan with a brown accent running next to a row of windows.
A big opening on this end of the building is used for moving construction materials in and out.
It looks like this side of the wing is about as painted as the other side. In front of the wing, concrete has been poured for part of a sidewalk. Wood and rebar show where more of the pathway will be.
A stripe of the building between the south wing and center of the building has not been painted. The rest of this section is a light cream color.
Most of the center of the building on this side hasn’t been painted either. With no scaffolding up, it seems that step is still a ways off.
A boom lift reached all the way up to the top of the building and we saw some crew members on balconies.
In front of the tower’s entrance are four sets of three short concrete walls, likely for some kind of porte-cochère or courtyard.
Scaffolding also covers this side of the north wing. This side of the wing is also mostly unpainted.
There are two tunnels through the scaffolding leading into the first floor of the building.
The end of the building has been painted but is still surrounded by scaffolding.
The DVC tower at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort is scheduled to open this year.
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