Violindude
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Orlando ranked number #2 in nation for relocation.
http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/sto...tml?jst=b_ln_hl
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Bring in the Marlin...or get a soccer team.
Miami has a hard time supporting a Baseball team and they have a metro of five million people we have a metro of 2.2 million. I don't think that'd work out well. I think a soccer team is the best solution for the Citrus bowl but is it worth a quarter of a billion dollars?
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Would Citrus Bowl fixes lure more games, acts?
A changing marketplace could make some officials leery.
Dan Tracy and Alan Schmadtke {sodEmoji.|} Sentinel Staff Writers
Posted August 28, 2006
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/...-home-headlines
I've been so sketchy about this because can we really get a football team? We're bigger then most cities that qualify for one (i.e. Nashville, Jacksonville) but we're an hour from Tampa, 2 and half hours from Jacksonville, 4 hours from Miami. Do you think that such a close area can support 4 FB teams? On the other hand the Citrus bowl could be held for MLS but do you think that would justify a stadium with 70,000 seats?
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I don't know, but I can tell you that violin was my first instrument.
Your first insturment? That implies that you moved on from the violin. What went wrong with the violin?
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could this digital arts village be the beginning of the next sillicon valley?
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Well then, you haven't spent the past twenty years watching downtown Orlando get stuck with one stubby looking disappointment after another. I understand fully well that the height of a building isn't necessarily the most important thing to consider when judging it's merits, but given the high profile location of that particular building, and taking into consideration the underwhelming heights of the rest of the buildings in the general vicinity, save Suntrust, and considering that it's going to be standing there for a long, long, time, one might be a bit more understanding of the feeling of frustration caused by seeing yet one more added to the list.
It seems like downtown Orlando is the king of 12 - 17 story buildings, so when you get teased with the idea that finally a respectably tall structure is going to go up, then after the thing is well underway, find that it's been redesigned to something less spectacular than advertised, some level of annoyance is to be expected. Nationally syndicated columnist Dave Barry (you may have heard of him) once described downtown Orlando as a place where "the tallest building is about the size of a large Burger King."
Regarding "architectural atrocities", the Solaire is no design award winner by any stretch of the imagination. But as I said earlier, it's not really the height of the building that I don't care for, it's the PROPORTIONS. It is too wide for it's height. It seems as though they might've been able to lessen the "cereal box" look of the thing by adding some kind of architectural element to the roof. Possibly extending those "shoulder pads" on either side up a ways and maybe replacing that flat "baseball cap" visor with something that would visually "stretch" the building up a bit.
Regarding your "finally starting to look like an actual city!" remark, be careful. Some folks around these here parts don't much cotton to the notion that Orlando isn't already an actual city. This I know from experience.
When I moved here I felt like it was lacking total height but I feel that the density that this new wave of buildings are putting in is great. Alot of the bulidings that are under construction are taller then most of the current ones. i.e. the vue, 55 west, dynetech. While it's sad that cities like Jacksonville and Nashville that have smaller metros then us have got us beat on height we make up for it with a very clean downtown. + we're catching up with commuter rail, new PAC, new arena, fixed citrus bowl. I think Orlando is an awsome city already but it's only getting better.
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If we get the basketball team from Puerto Rico couldn't they take the T.D. Waterhouse? Has anyone heard anything about that team yet?
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I know it's a much bigger market but DC and Baltimore are close and they both have teams, Baltimore & Philly aren't that far apart either. Orlando & Tampa both have Arena League teams and that's a hot rivalry.
Orlando has got like 2 mil people metro and Tampas got 2.7 mil people metro. Do you think 4.7 million people is a big enough of a number to justify another team?
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I was listening to Bud Heddinger today and he made a good point. What's the point of refurbishing our Citrus bowl? We probably won't get an NFL team since Tampa which is a little over and hour away has one and so does Jacksonville. What's the points of spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a stadium that you can't put a football team in? I am all for the Orena and the Opac but what's the point of the Citrus bowl?
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So is this just guessing or do we think there will be a new Orena? That article said by 2008 does that even sound possible?
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If Orlando gets a new Orena and/or more pro teams we'd have more to offer then most cities. (i.e. our theme parks, pro sports teams, close beaches etc, etc.) I think this would be great for the Orlando arts but the question is it worth all the money?
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One last thing. Re: a thankfully dead thread (that you brought back up). In case you didn't see the WFTV Fourth of July broadcast the other night, they had Hizzoner, Mayor Buddy Dyer on camera and he made the following statement...."We're hoping to turn Orlando into an "international city rather that just an international destination". The implication being of course, that currently Orlando does not fall into that category. So the mayor agrees with me. Maybe you ought to direct your angry resentful messages to HIM.
I believe pretty much all of the "pro Orlando cheering section" (which I am proud to be a part of) said that Orlando is an international destination not an international city. You refuted that with Disney and all of the theme parks aren't Orlando when in all actuality the majority of people thought of them as Orlando.
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MLB: Just adding there is always the possibility, especially with the D-Rays and Marlins struggling the way they are for fans. Would baseball work in Orlando? Possibly, however it is definitly something the city could look into affter the tax is approved.
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If we get a new citrus bowl and a new orena what all could they be held for? Do you think there are any chances we'd get a NFL and an MLS team in the citrus bowl and have NBA and NHL in the Orena? I think Orlando is ready for more sport teams but do you think we'll ever get them?
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Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium [Renovation Completed]
in Orlando
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I could see it going to Idrive if Orange county incorporated with Orlando but why should a team called the Orlando magics be out side of the Orlando city limits?