Imagineering files signage permits for all four Walt Disney World parking plazas
Walt Disney Imagineering recorded four matching Notices of Commencement on October 8 to install signage at addresses tied to the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom parking plazas. The filings give no start date and do not say what kind of signs are coming.
Walt Disney Imagineering has filed four permits to install signage at addresses tied to the parking plazas of all four Walt Disney World theme parks. The filings are identical apart from their addresses, which points to one coordinated project for the first thing every driving guest sees.
Key Details
- Filed: October 8, 2026
- Owner: Walt Disney Imagineering
- Contractor: Kentavo, of Kissimmee
- Scope of work: Install signage
The Buzz
Permit filings are often the first public sign of work at Walt Disney World. These four cover the parking plaza at every theme park at once, which is why planners are watching for what the new signs turn out to be.
What the four Notices of Commencement say
The four filings are near identical, which points to a single signage project rather than four separate jobs.
- What the form is. A Notice of Commencement is a recorded document that goes on file before improvement work begins on a property.
- Only addresses differ. Each filing matches the others except for the property address, and none names a theme park.
- A familiar contractor. Kentavo is the company Imagineering usually hires for signage work around the parks.
- One-year term. The expiration date is left blank, so each notice lasts one year from recording unless Disney specifies otherwise.
Matching each permit address to a parking plaza
Each street address lands at or near one of the four theme park parking plazas.
- EPCOT plaza. 200 EPCOT Center Drive, the entrance to the EPCOT parking plaza and the cleanest match of the four.
- Magic Kingdom plaza. 3301 N. World Drive, an area along World Drive a short distance from the Magic Kingdom parking plaza.
- Animal Kingdom plaza. 500 E. Savannah Circle, at the Animal Kingdom parking lot.
- Hollywood Studios plaza. Listed as 2750 N. Studio Drive, most likely a typo for 750 N. Studio Drive, the parking plaza entrance.
The Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom addresses sit slightly away from their toll plazas, but close enough that the work almost certainly belongs to the same plaza project.
No start date yet, and the type of sign is unknown
The words install signage could mean marquees, digital boards or wayfinding, and the filings do not say which.
- No start date. These forms do not give a start date, so it is unclear when visible work will begin.
- Broad scope. The description leaves open entrance marquees, digital boards, wayfinding or something else entirely.
- EPCOT precedent. EPCOT installed a new parking plaza marquee in January 2023, with lettering that matches the rest of its arrival area.
- Animal Kingdom precedent. Its plaza got a digital sign in December 2024 that can show parking rates and Preferred Parking details, the third park to get one.
Our take. Nothing changes at the toll booths yet, so park as you do today. If the new signs follow the Animal Kingdom board, drivers could see parking rates and Preferred Parking details before they pay, at any of the four parks within the year the notices run.