John Hargrove

Downtown has always lacked good cozy, laptop friendly type coffee shops. The Starbucks in the CBD is too small and too busy to really qualify. I imagine downtown rents might make something like that impossible, though.

Work is ongoing it would appear. Demo taking a while.

Shade. For the love of everything, shade.

Elaborate? I'm unfamiliar with these individuals.

Meh we need more tacos.

I will never forget Burton's Bar and the bruise and near concussion I gave myself with that low-hanging beam through the middle of the room. x_x

Agreed, it should never be free. Affordable but not free. The news is depressing but I'm not shocked. The city of Orlando really needs an all-in approach on transit. You can't just put a commuter train on a bunch of track that runs through mostly industrial areas and expect it to just magically work. The SunRail last mile on either end is abysmal. On numerous occasions I've tried to use it and the connections to buses often take 20+ minutes of walking in the Florida heat and then waiting for anywhere from 10-30 minutes for a bus to arrive (if its on time). There are a large number of trips in this city that are fairly close to the I-4 corridor and SunRail vs a Car can easily take 400% of the duration. God help you if you try to go anywhere during off-peak times (i.e. most of the day). You could address all of the above and it still wouldn't fix it, though. You need less sprawl too. And the issue here is that Orlando has no natural boundaries (mountains, large bodies of water) to counter sprawl, which means it takes political willpower. And what are the odds that's going to happen?

Ah Palm Trees. Perfect for providing shade and shelter in those hot Florida summers.

358 sqft in Lake Nona. Must be the lack of space.

Investing city $$$ in this for a small patch of park isn't worth it. There are many other places that money could be spent that would provide much more tangible benefits for Orlando. Of course the city can walk and chew gum at the same time, but funding has real limits. It would kill me to see the city own an office high rise in an effort to open some green space when our bus stops look like this: Priorities

Robinson would be GREAT for that. Man I wish the urban trail was further along.

So say we all.

I assume 2 others will open in its place to keep with tradition

Legend has it that they run the construction equipment purely on the energy of nimby rage

Delicious meal, service was good, great decor. 5/10 won't come back

Part of me wonders if that is also motivated by the congregation of homeless that like to hang out under that awning and harass people who walk in and out of the building. That corner is rough sometimes.

I live on this corner of 55 West. I can assure you work is being done, as I can hear a nightly cacophony of hundreds of pounds of concrete and random assorted building materials smashing into the bottom of metal dumpsters. They had to close Church Street several nights in a row to clear out debris. I'm guessing interior demo is taking a lot of time.

You will pry that hat from my cold dead fingers

Bummer. If we could just pick up 55 West, shake it really hard so all the bros go flying out the windows, then plop it down in Eola South, it would be my favorite building in the city. Hard to find a big, well-built 3+ BR in downtown.

Spent some time in Portland which has a ridiculous amount of cyclists. These green boxes were everywhere and I loved them as a driver. Can't tell you the number of times I've nearly creamed a cyclist because they came flying off a sidewalk or something. The boxes seem to work pretty well in my limited experience.

Is it all the superficial stuff? When I went through there on a tour my gut told me the building itself was built fine but all the fixtures, etc., were cheap.

Corrine is the worst. Amazing how well the community seems to do in spite of having basically no walkability, no shade, cars parked where sidewalks should be, etc. etc. It needs a major refresh. Even just literally 3 blocks of sidewalks and landscaping would transform it. The businesses would probably lose parking, though. Not sure how to solve that. Build a small 100 car parking structure with first floor retail or something.

The renderings OBJ shared showed some surface parking along Orange, including some street-side parking. No idea if those are accurate, though.

This project will be transformative for that corner, I think. Hope it spurs development down there. Lots of opportunity along Orange south of 408.

11 year old thread and within the first couple posts you see someone posting about it being too short. Made me laugh.