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Disneyland’s Northeast Ticket Booths Are Gone As Downtown Disney Scrims Spread From Napolini To Salt And Straw

Demolition of the ticket booths on the Disneyland esplanade

The last two ticket booths on the northeast corner of Disneyland’s esplanade are gone. Where the windows stood a week ago there is now flat pavement, a tan construction wall and the arm of an excavator working behind it, with Halloween banners already hung on the lampposts in front. The cleared pad was photographed on September 8.

This is the end of a demolition that has run in stages. Disneyland pulled the east booths off its digital park map at the end of August, construction walls went up around the first of them in mid-August, and the machines arrived the week of September 1.

We Watched Them Come Down

The first sign was quiet. On August 19, walls had already gone up around two of the four booths, with the other two still open and taking guests, weeks before any machine turned up.

Two booths were already rubble on September 1, with a yellow excavator standing in a pile of splintered lumber, broken stucco and roof tin behind red caution tape. A second machine was working the pads beyond it, and one kiosk with its little turret was still upright past the site fence.

The work kept going after dark. By the next morning more of the row was gone, and it moved again two days later, each stage taking another piece of the line of booths that has met guests walking in from Harbor Boulevard for decades.

Clearing Ground For The Parking Structure

The booths are coming out because the ground under them is spoken for. Disney announced in June 2025 that the east side of the resort would get a new parking structure and transportation hub with roughly 6,000 spaces and a pedestrian bridge over Harbor Boulevard, built on part of the Manchester cast member lot. Disney broke ground at the end of August. This is the first visible change to the front door of the park since the project began.

Porto’s Is Building On The Same Side

These are not the first ticket booths on this side of the resort to come down. The two closest to Downtown Disney closed in November 2025 and were demolished that December, along with the former La Brea Bakery building that had been serving as a temporary Earl of Sandwich, to clear the site for Porto’s Bakery & Cafe.

That work has been running ever since, a few hundred feet from the esplanade demolition. Porto’s Downtown Disney location will be the Cuban bakery’s seventh and the first with sit-down table service and a full bar, built as a two-story building with patios on both levels. Chief executive Raul Porto Jr. told the Orange County Business Journal that the chain serves more than two million customers a month across its six existing locations and expects to handle the Disneyland crowds. No opening date has been announced.

Scrims Across Half Of Downtown Disney’s East End

Downtown Disney is under wraps of its own. Facade work has put scrims across the entire run of storefronts from Napolini Pizzeria around the corner to Salt & Straw, with a tan screen stretched over the upper facade and a row of bright construction panels along the walkway below.

Napolini’s sign is still visible beneath the scrim and guests were seated outside on September 8, so this looks like exterior work rather than a closure. Disney has not said what the facade will look like when it comes down, and there is no posted completion date. The stretch sits directly on the main route between the parks and the Downtown Disney parking lot, which means most guests will walk past it whether they notice or not.

Bopo-Go Shows Its Face

The fourth change is the most encouraging. The former Jamba space now carries full Bopo-Go branding on its construction wrap, with a red and white logo, a “Good to go with Bopo Go!” tagline and photographs of noodle cups and drinks. That is a big step up from the bare walls that went up when Jamba closed to make way for it.

Disney has not announced an opening date for Bopo-Go, and the wrap does not carry one. Branded graphics on a wall usually mean the interior fit-out is far enough along to market, so a date may not be far behind.

Why This Corner Matters

Taken together, the sites describe a resort reshaping its east side. The ticket booths were the first thing arriving guests saw from Harbor Boulevard for decades. The parking structure and its bridge will change how a large share of them get to the esplanade in the first place, Porto’s is going up on ground that used to hold two more booths, and the Downtown Disney work is refreshing the storefronts those guests pass on the way in. None of it is finished, but all of it is now visible from the sidewalk.

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