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So after doing more research, it seems that SeaWorld CEO Marc Swanson mentioned in this month's earning call that SeaWorld was planning on opening two hotels in the coming years (one in 2025 and a second in 2026), with others currently being planned.
I went back to the 2015 earnings call and found this map of their resort strategy:
I decided to look up the other parcels of land highlighted in yellow to see if there was any activity on them, and lo and behold, there was another preliminary plan filed with the Orange County Development Review Committee on the same day as the Starboard filing. This project is codenamed Canopy and sits on a 1-ish acre plot of land behind Discovery Cove:
So if I was a betting man, I'd wager these are the locations of their first two hotels, codenamed Starboard and Canopy.
I went back to the 2015 earnings call and found this map of their resort strategy:
I decided to look up the other parcels of land highlighted in yellow to see if there was any activity on them, and lo and behold, there was another preliminary plan filed with the Orange County Development Review Committee on the same day as the Starboard filing. This project is codenamed Canopy and sits on a 1-ish acre plot of land behind Discovery Cove:
So if I was a betting man, I'd wager these are the locations of their first two hotels, codenamed Starboard and Canopy.