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Change by neglect. Kill off the culturally accurate entertainment, which was popular BTW, but more expensive than kids in fur or animatronics. I guess they'll still get the hospitality majors from the countries represented and no one will mind the cultural appropriation. Truthy over truth.

I miss the days when empty retail space downtown was taken over for the Fringe theater festival.

Is this place to be thought of as lower income residents or just younger with all the studios and one bedrooms?

And provided shade and rain canopy for people and 120 degree cars....

You are correct in the JYP location. Mid-size (for Orlando) convention space. The only difference between the Ritz and the JW as far as I can make out is the fixture design (JW - modern-boring, Ritz - Edwardian-esque) and the color scheme both of which is also reflected in the uniforms/costumes of the staff. The transition happens abruptly in the convention space between the two. Bonnet Creek hosts another such pairing of Hilton/Waldorf Astoria and lots of room in that neck of the woods to build more. I would expect more hotels. The expansion of the parks not only offer new and more attractions, but also adds more guest capacity. Operations folks while still having the hand clickers to count guests engaged in streetmosphere acts, know to the second guests engaged in queued rides. The more capacity of guest engagement, the more guests per day in the parks, the more beds for those guests at night. I would also expect the studios parking lot to be expanded.

Sooooooooo. Cricket anyone? The OBJ sent me a tease (b/c I don't subscribe) talking about a professional cricket league and stadium here in O-Town. Searching led me to Dallas BJ without the paywall. Besides Dallas talk about DC, NJ, NY, GA, and I forget the other two. Surprisingly not Detroit. Making it a summer league. Here is a March SB Nation that talks about the league and the principal investor: https://www.sbnation.com/2017/3/1/14725986/jay-pandya-interview-cricket-usa-2-billion-investment But for the speculation (unless OBJ said where) and desire for what location it is to be built. I fear Lake Nona, but I hope around downtown. But where? Sorry, here is the link to the Dallas BJ article with rendering: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2017/07/17/texas-on-tap-for-new-u-s-cricket-stadium-with-help.html

Would've been nice, but with CG, who needs to blow up an old building? Plus with the lack of tax incentive for motion picture/television production in Florida, no one wants to shoot here. (Thanks Gov. Scott. Guess he hasn't figured out a way to make money personally from it).

People aren't filling the seats as much any more. Even Vegas is closing many of the Broadway style shows. Profits don't happen, entertainment goes away. Like Disney World where you couldn't go 5 minutes without running into a live performance have replaced all those groups with either nothing or character interactions.

I was talking about the ideas to block noise and control access which would block the view from the street.

IRL.

So both. And why the shakes abandoned. Such questions are why I stopped lurking and joined to comment a few years ago. Community foci: sure! Great place to start and end fun runs etc. Open to the public festivals: awesome!! Whatever or whoever is being thrown out there: religion or various causes it is a great focal point. Want to sell those seats? Not so good. Noise starts with the industrial units on the AT&T building and gets worse from there. Distractions abound not just from noise but the guy house left exposing himself proudly. Throw enough money at this and it might be both, but on the cheap: never.

Depends on what the shell is, an object d'art for passers by or a viable performance space destination.

Many moons ago there was talk of tearing up the trees, putting in a shade structure and enclosing the seating area for noise reduction, to make ticketed events more feasible and provide increased security.

No real insider info but it makes sense from the producers angle, they can share back of house operations, add BMG shows into established Cirque markets. There is an audience crossover. Share marketing strategies etc.

Didn't say who was going to Rio. Hate going through Miami a little less than going through Panama. Though I wonder if that is sustainable considering Brasil's continued economic problems. Unless someone is shifting service.

They went to 4th Fighter Group when they went from WW I decor to WW II. Late '80s I think.

4th Fighter Group. Loved that place. Went to the same sort of thing out in St. Pete. Always a great date night. Me and my date d'jour were frequently the youngest patrons, however.

Any news on this? I haven't had a reason to go by to see for myself in a while.

I still have my 15 year name tag somewhere in a memorabilia box.

It's not always LV #1 destination, Orlando has been #1 a few times recently. Moving sidewalks on those bridges more than the small segment that has them would be better. I had thought that was part of the original plan.

Too big, too small, and not enough breakouts. Both facilities have been used for convention events, but, like Microsoft MGX, attendees were bussed in from the attractions area for a general session and then bussed back out after the session ended. All trade show, training and regional meeting activities took place at the OCCC. All the vast majority of attendees saw of downtown was through the window of a coach. So it's not just the big meeting of everybody that event planners need, but all these other rooms for a true convention. Amway and Dr. Phillips are too big, and too expensive for a group that could stay downtown, or they are too small only having these large single purpose rooms, not to mention that these facilities would be getting away from their primary missions. And then, not enough small (space for 50-100) rooms to soak up the seperate activities of your thousands of attendees you have in your general session. Convention space really is a way to get people into hotel rooms, and hotels cut really good deals for the space depending on how many rooms you fill. So a hotel with enough convention space has to have a lot of hotel rooms, though frequently they are able to charge a premium for people to stay at the "convention hotel" while expecting other attendees to stay nearby and commute, hopefully close enough to walk for area businesses. I could see a downtown convention hotel attracting a convention needing the Carr/DPCPA/Steinmetz for the general session because they have maxed out their convention space, but it's the smaller meeting rooms, or more likely the multiple large ballrooms that can be cut to size with airwalls that lands meetings.

There is no decently sized convention space downtown. The ballroom had horrible logistic problems and the lower half was never finished. Salvage the furnishings an build something that can compete! I yearn for the day to see folks with convention credentials walking the streets of downtown.

^It had also been a subject of discussion here for a little bit. I was going to add "don't you mean West Curry Ford?"

That new Amazon center will surely not be hiring fork-ops. Autonomous forks and item retrieval robots are actually old technology. I think the idea of automate/robotisize what you can, have humans do what they can't until a better robot comes along has been the trend for a time. The tricky bit is finding a life model that includes a workless society.

Don't forget Theo's Kitchen, China Star (which I think is easily one of the top places in town for chinese take out), and Rogue Pub. The area is great, looking forward to the Cottage. Hourglass district does have more attractive themeing possibilities than Kaley Park or Curry Ford West District.