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U.S. Army's Resort at Walt Disney World to Cut 265 Jobs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2002
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 31--About 265 employees of the U.S. Army's Shades of Green resort at Walt Disney World will be laid off April 1 when construction begins on a $50 million expansion project.
In contrast to workers at some other area hotels, the employees at Shades of Green are victims of their establishment's success. The 287-room resort, reserved for military personnel and their families, has been turning away guests with its occupancy rates consistently ranging from 90 percent to 99 percent.
Roughly doubling in size to 586 rooms, the expanded Shades of Green is expected to open in September 2003.
"The reason we're doing this expansion is that we have been such...
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