Touring Celebration, Florida | Ask This Old House

Ask This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey visits Celebration, Florida, a planned community south of Orlando that was built using the principles of New Urbanism
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He checks out the house styles, the commercial Town Center, and even talks with a homeowner about what made him choose to live here.
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[@jamescook4289]

Celebration feels like you're on a movie set. The only good thing about the town is the hospital Celebration Health. They have a cafè instead of a cafeteria, a swimming pool and full gym for physical therapy and the rooms are huge - they pamper you with a large tv with a interactive remote that calls your nurses station and you "Skype" with them if you need anything. Super cool!

[@cup_and_cone]

I briefly lived in Celebration from 2008-2010. While it still has some of its original character, much of it's charm is gone and dated (or never existed), and the community itself seems more tourist attraction than genuine community. Another famous/touristy New Urbanism community in Florida is Seaside, FL (where the movie 'The Truman Show' was filmed).

[@mikenelson4896]

Hello everyone at This Old House love your show !!!

[@thebigdoghimself]

Very cool, looking forward to seeing more.

[@lalarobert]

It looks beautiful. The next time I travel down south I going to make the drive to Celebration.

[@danmar007]

The houses may be like they were in the old days but the people aren't.

[@greg_thomson]

Fantastic Homes

[@bosse641]

Why isn't project videos uploaded here any longer as before ? Have seen all the series of the house building and restoration series here. But have not seen any new seasons uploaded in some time. Why is that ? Really would like to see the last few seasons as well. :-) Love This Old House. You're awesome.

[@saulgoodman2018]

They were on a break for the last couple months.

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

still have to catch up on episodes from this season...

[@joekosmowski]

I live near this and celebration used to be the place to live but unfortunately with the scheme of crime right outside it’s doors you can definitely see a lack of care of the community. Especially with the homeless walking thru the neighborhoods. Sad and unfortunate dream gone

[@kk-hp6ve]

This is all owned by disney. All the residents are disney employees.mostly upper management, likely including his wife who probably works as a disney nurse

[@wade_jpeg]

k k The town was developed by The Walt Disney Company but it is not all owned by Disney. You do not have to be a Disney employee to be a resident there, in fact if you would like to look at purchasing real estate you can head on over to www.celebration.fl.us/prospective-residents/open-houses-in-celebration-florida/ to take a look at local open houses in Celebration.

[@cup_and_cone]

Wade is right, it's neither "owned" nor a requirement to be an employee. While Disney does own the largest amount of property in Celebration, and did help develop the community a few decades ago, homeowners outright own their property.

[@joekosmowski]

With how low paid Disney employees are no one would live their. It was once owned by Walt Disney himself and that was the plan to have cast members live their and have a monorail system go thru the town. But then these housing developments moved in and built half asses bungalow home for more than half million so that idea was completely scrapped. Although there are a lot of Disney offices located in celebration

[@cup_and_cone]

@@joekosmowski - Not entirely accurate. Walt never personally owned the land that is now Celebration, it was always owned by Walt Disney Company. Walt died long before his EPCOT vision could have ever been realized, it stayed concept. Celebration didn't become a thing until 20+ years later in the Mike Eisner years, with it's development off-loaded onto many third-party developers to generate some cash flow. The corporate Disney offices at Celebration Place were part of the same umbrella expansion as the Casting Center, Team Disney building, and several other support facilities...all under Eisner's rapid growth plan. The only real link between Walt's initial EPCOT and Celebration boils down to marketing buzz for sales. Whether or not Disney employees can afford living there is another political argument entirely (does someone selling ice cream from a cart deserve $20+/hr?), but it does highlight just one of the many flaws in Walt Disney's EPCOT concept: He never accounted for demand pricing.

[@mattheww2797]

The town was built by Disney but they are no longer involved in any fashion with the development, there were a number of high profile issues with HOA and various other things and the Disney involvement went away, it was a pretty high profile boondoogle with new parts of Celebration just being tacked on and no longer embracing the views of the original development.