Rooms continue to take shape in Disney Lakeshore Lodge, a new resort under construction at Walt Disney World.
Disney Lakeshore Lodge Construction
From the land, more wall framing is visible along this side of the building. The first few floors now have vertical steel poles creating the shapes of walls around windows.
Meanwhile, crews continue to construct additional floors of the building. A construction permit indicated it will be ten stories.
From the water, we saw several cranes in action. The resort is under construction on the former site of the River Country water park, next to Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort.
This end of the building is currently only three floors, but a crane was lowering a wall into place for a fourth floor when we passed by this week.
Another crane was lowering a longer element into place amid concrete walls and rebar frames.
This section of the building has steel frames in place for rooms on every floor. The openings are for windows or doors. Some of the frames are near the edge of the building but others go further inside, creating interior walls.
We saw yet another crane lowering a large concrete wall into place.
The smallest crane was sitting on the Floatmaster barges in the water. These barges are designed to hold and transport large pieces of construction equipment on water when there is not necessarily space for them on land.
Crew members had also set up workbenches on a Floatmaster next to the crane.
At this end of the building, there are now six stories. On the second story, crews have started covering the steel wall frames on the second floor with sheathing.
The walls with sheathing run down towards the center of the building. It’s approximately U-shaped, with its two ends facing the water.
More sheathing is stacked against the walls for future installation. As we previously reported, there are now pipes visible in the building.
The lowest section of the building is near the center and is just one story tall right now. This could be the future location of the lobby. Disney Lakeshore Lodge replaces the planned Reflections – A Disney Lakeside Lodge, which was to have a Pocahontas statue in the lobby. We don’t know how much of the Reflections theming has been carried over to Lakeshore Lodge’s plans.
A port-cochere structure sticks out of the building on this side. This could also be a lobby or another exit.
In addition to work on the building, crews have also been working on the beach. There are now several white poles sticking out of the beach, which closed several months ago for construction.
Among some of the white poles are gray pipes. There were crew members having a discussion at the end of the beach closest to Fort Wilderness.
From the dock, we got a closer look at wooden structures on the beach, otherwise mostly obscured by fencing and scrim. These may be the bases of future cabanas.
Disney Lakeshore Lodge is expected to open in 2027.
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