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What ever they do to Hunter Arms they should have a plaque that says "2,000 Maniacs filmed here in 1964". We don't want to lose important history like that.
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Nice pictures, thanks!
That looks ridiculous (Mama B's). That corner has so more potential.
When the hotel is done it's going to look like the last shot from the movie "*batteries not included" where the house full of old people is surrounded by high rises.
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I had my first, and last, Zima at that Jungle Jim's. Guess what decade that was...
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The church should sell it. The memory of the eyesore of the unfinished building will forever (at least for a long time) will be linked to this project and the church. I celebrated 11 years at my Lake Mary job yesterday and remember driving past it on my first day from Orlando (it was about up to the 4th level at the time) so you know I'm sick of looking at it!
Duh,I forgot to write my whole point: Whatever the reasons for the delays, the church is unfortunately being a bad neighbor to Altamonte Springs.
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The church should sell it. The memory of the eyesore of the unfinished building will forever (at least for a long time) will be linked to this project and the church. I celebrated 11 years at my Lake Mary job yesterday and remember driving past it on my first day from Orlando (it was about up to the 4th level at the time) so you know I'm sick of looking at it!
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I had a meeting with the downtown development board and they said that Eight Ninety Nine Apartments will break ground before the end of the year. They also stated that it is looking like we will have two buildings breaking ground next spring in the Creative Village.
A fence is up around the 899 lot. Bad news for people in the area who have apartement dogs that need to be walked and...well...you know...
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Good news for those of us who like to be Green and see things repurposed:
The request to renovate the former OUC building into a 119 room hotel has received the OK from the Municipal Planning Board.
* Project is being developed under the "ALoft" boutique hotel brand (link brings you to aloft's website, w/photos of the brand in other cities)
* Building was sold to GDC Properties for $2.8 million (the same company building the mixed-use apts off Orange & Marks)
* Unofficial est cost to renovate: $6.6 million
* Will include screened outdoor seating and pool area along Orange Ave
* The parking sitch hasn't been figured out yet, but valet will be offered
I wonder if the new owners know that the building was designed to be 2 floors taller and that they were left unbuilt for future expansion? Someone tell them quick!!
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Now this is a problem i didn't think i would have all the way up here! WASPS attacking my balcony and bedroom windows!!!! HELP!!!! haha this is happening in the mid 20's west side of the building.
Years ago I was having a window-seat summer dinner at the restaurant on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Tower in Chicago. I wondered what the spiders outside of the windows ate until I saw a fly and a couple of dragonflies. Yikes, that was a trip for them!
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the CNA Center. nice. good eye.
however, Amsouth aka Regions aka Copper Whopper is also taller and was built in the early '80's. And I think DuPont aka BOA was built before Suntrust too, or at least I thought it was.
Whoops! You're right. The Copper Whopper sneaked in there as tallest for a bit.
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Here is a website I just ran across for Round Building Reuse: 360. It was a website put together a means to submit ideas for the American Federal Building preservation. We just passed the submission deadline and it looks like they will be judging entries this week. There are some good photos of the building on the resources tab.
Neat! If you click on "History" and look at the picture in the back ground to the right you can see Orlando's tallest building from 1971 to 1988 under construction. I wonder if the people of 1971, with this modern round building and a modern skyscraper being build a block North, felt they were about to be living in a big city (for our Orlando of course)?
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Publix definitely seems to be a go - the tile has been placed on the walls where I think the shopping carts will go (at least it looks like the tile in that area of the Colonialtown Publix) and there appears to have been some background paint on some of the drywall. I also was talking with the Colonial Plaza WaMu branch manager a couple of weeks back, and it was indicated the new WaMu is definitely a go. So, we're making progress in fits and starts. Rome wasn't built in a day, so I guess Orlando won't be either.
Publix is definitely a go. My brother-in-law is a driver for them and the store is on a board with an assigned store number. He'll be the one delivering to that cramped delivery bay. The poor guy also has the Baldwin Park one and if you ever have been on that side of the store when the delivery truck is there, you know that is no piece of cake either!
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I used to have an old black and white concept rendering of that somewhere.
From what I recall, it was a basic square building about 6 to 8 stories, maybe 10.... 1890's French Quarter looking w/balconies & wrought iron etc..
Typical of the rest of Church Street Station.
He had also planned, from what I heard, to aquire more train cars, maybe another track and have two trains side by side used for luxury hotel rooms. The pic showed some type of enclosed connector area between the trains and the building.
If anyone has a copy of that, please post it.
Here it is. To the left is South. The parking lots in front became Church Street Market:
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Here is Olympia Centre from 1987:
Ahhh....the Orlando "Uptown" that could have been...
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wow.
amazing.
this, Olympia Centre, the BOA deal... all from the '80's.
Here is Olympia Centre from 1987:
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Yep!!! That's the one. Where'd ya find it?
The one I had was a full page color version.
Thanks for posting that.
You're welcome. I been keeping a scrap book since 1980 and finally brought myself into the 21st century by getting a scanner last week.
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A long time ago I had a picture of a model that had that building as part of a 3 building complex facing Garland Ave. between Central and Washington. There was a 24 story tower next to the current 12 story, and on the far north end at Washinton was an 18 story tower. They were all connected by covered elevated walkways at around the 2nd floor. The tallest tower in the middle had set backs on the upper corners similar to the First Union building up on North Orange. They all had the same silver skin with horizontal widow strips in between.
I wish like crazy I could find the picture. I think that was the first of the "projects that never made it" in DTO.
It was a cool looking complex with all 3 towers, but by itself, it just doesn't get it.
I do like your idea of doing something like the Winter Park building, though. We need more of that style down there.
Here ya go...
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Not the greatest but here are a few:
Thanks for the views tm68. Interesting...
I agree and hope that developers are careful with the future garages connected to their projects. Look (or try to look) at City Hall from I4. If it wasn't for that darn water table under us we could put these undergroud, being careful not to intrude on the subway.
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Is there any renderings of 55 West displayed from the North? I have been following this project for years (and years and years and so on...) and do not recall seeing any. I know it won't look like a blank piece of concrete like a 1970's condo building on Cocoa Beach seen from A1A, but I am still curious.
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I've lived in the same house in this area (between Curry Ford and Michigan, west of Crystal Lake) since 1994. The immediate neighborhood has definitely improved. We built new back then on an empty lot where the house had burned down, and since the majority of the properties near us have been renovated. (It's my house's time I guess.)
I think the commercial aspect is getting better too. Regarding the city vs county limits for which I am two blocks from the city, I always found it humorous the the bus stops on Curry Ford near Conway are of the permanent type but the ones closer to downtown in my section are just a bench, like the one near Wawa.
I'm looking forward to seeing what improvements overall are in store for the area.