Walt Disney Parks and Resorts bought the former Yamaha Motor Corp. USA campus in Cypress, California, for $115.29 million. The sale closed Sept. 23. Disney hasn’t said why, and the property isn’t available until 2028.
Disney bought a 25-acre industrial campus about eight miles from Disneyland and didn’t announce it.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. paid $115.29 million for the former Yamaha Motor Corp. USA headquarters at 6555 Katella Ave. in Cypress, California, according to the grant deed filed with the property transfer.
The sale closed Sept. 23.
Nobody announced it
The deal surfaced through paperwork rather than a press release.
Commercial real estate firm Avison Young announced the sale on Friday, Oct. 2 without naming the buyer. The purchaser and price were confirmed through public records.
Yamaha confirmed the transaction without details. “I can confirm that the property is sold, and the transaction is complete,” said spokesman Martin Peters. “I am not at liberty to confirm the details of the transaction.”
A Disney spokesperson was not immediately available for comment on what the company plans to do with the land.
The buying entity is the interesting part
Here’s the detail that narrows the possibilities.
The deed names Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. That’s the theme park division, not a corporate real estate arm or a studio entity.
A parks company buying industrial and warehouse space near a theme park suggests operational use rather than investment. Disney has not confirmed any intent, and the obvious uses for that kind of square footage include warehousing, logistics, offices, and support facilities.
Nothing happens until 2028
Yamaha is leasing the property back through 2028, according to Avison Young. The company’s exit from Cypress begins at the end of 2026 and continues into late 2028.
So Disney owns it, Yamaha still occupies it, and the site won’t be free for roughly two years.
What’s actually on the land
The campus is substantial.
It covers 278,964 square feet across industrial, flex-warehouse, and office buildings, occupying an entire city block bounded by Katella Avenue, Holder Street, and Yamaha Way.
Avison Young described it as one of the largest industrial redevelopment opportunities available in Southern California.
That’s 25 acres of contiguous, already-developed land in a market where that essentially does not come up.
Katella runs straight to Disneyland
The geography is worth understanding.
Katella Avenue runs east out of Cypress into Anaheim, passing along the southern edge of Disneyland Resort. The two properties sit on the same road.
Cypress is a small city in northwestern Orange County, roughly eight miles from the resort. For a company that already operates one of the most land-constrained theme park sites in the country, a large parcel that close is not a routine purchase.
Why Yamaha is leaving
Yamaha, which makes ATVs, boat engines and personal watercraft, is relocating its U.S. headquarters to Kennesaw, Georgia after 47 years in Cypress.
The company has attributed the move to “structural reforms” aimed at improving profitability, citing cost increases from tariffs and what it called changes in the market environment.
It’s the second major corporate departure from the city. Mitsubishi Motors North America left Cypress in 2019 after 31 years, moving roughly 200 employees to Franklin, Tennessee, and citing lower operating costs.
What is Disney using it for?
We don’t know.
Disney hasn’t said. It could be offices, or storage, or another park in the vein of Walt Disney World with large stretches between the theme parks.
It could be a Disney Data Center.
Who knows.
We won’t find out until Disney tells us.
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Hat Tips:
Southern California News Group and the Orange County Register (Oct. 2, 2026), the sale reporting, the grant deed details, the Martin Peters statement and the Yamaha relocation background
PropertyShark, the public records confirming Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. as buyer and the $115.29 million price
Avison Young (Oct. 2, 2026), the sale announcement, the property specifications and the lease-back terms
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