However, in the early stages of the project, the construction of the concert hall’s underground parking lot exceeded the budget by a large margin. When the parking lot was built in 1996, it had already cost US$90 million to US$110 million, causing Los Angeles to The county council had to sell government bonds to make up for the shortfall. The allocation of the project schedule and the use of budget materials caused a lot of controversy, and the construction of the above-ground buildings was delayed. Fortunately, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Layden(en) and California philanthropist Eli Bollot launched a fundraising campaign so that construction could begin in December 1999.

When the concert hall was completed in 2003, including the underground parking lot, the total cost had reached 274 million US dollars, of which 84.5 million US dollars were donated by the Disney family and 20,000 US dollars were donated by the Disney Company. 5 million US dollars. Compared with the other three buildings of the Los Angeles Music Center (built in the 1960s and costing approximately US$35 million), the Disney Concert Hall can be said to be the most expensive concert hall building ever built in Los Angeles.