TechCrunch:

Over the course of the past 5 years, Walt Disney Imagineering has been hard at work making the world of Star Wars a reality on Earth. In two locations, California and Florida, Black Spire outpost on the planet of Batuu is now under construction. It’s an enormous several-billion-dollar bet that people will want to visit a place very similar to the ones that they’ve seen on the screen for decades.

Missed this in the deluge of articles about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge over the last few days. This is a really great look at the Herculean effort put forth to bring this all to life.