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The posts are in at the corners of Mills and Colonial.

The building is pretty much finished, landscaping in, dog park set up.

https://www.yourcommunitypaper.com/articles/concord-commons-townhomes-moving-forward/ The community paper did a story around it a couple weeks ago.

The Alexan on Fern Creek. The sidewalks are in and opened, the fence dividing the dog park from the Deli Desires parking lot is up, and the public art has been installed.

The Auditorium at Howard Middle. The school is undergoing a huge renovation, but I noticed tonight as I drove by that the large Live Oak in front of the entrance which faces Robinson, was cut down. Incidentally, a cross street towards Mills, the block over from Howard middle, the condos are already under construction.

Alexan on Colonial and Fern Creek is creeping along. They poured the side walk crossing a few days back.

I love that this neighborhood still has several old houses. I wish that the city or another entity would historically zone some of them before they are all gone in this area. While I don’t think that a law firm is the best use, it could be converted into some thing with which the public could interact more. When I lived in Charlotte, many of the old houses had been converted into bars, restaurants, coffee, shops, bookstores, Yoga, studios, etc. I liked the scaling and sense of history it brought to neighborhoods around the core of Uptown there.

It’s cleared but no other progress.

The mural is finished, minus the bottom areas which will be completed after construction crews grade around the parking deck

The pyramids reflect bluish in the evening. It’s less noticeable that they are white.

Mural on Alexan moving along.

There is a mural getting started by C Stanley on the garage facing Feen Creek. Snapped a screen shot of their reel on Instagram.

Hadn’t seen this angle for a minute.

Is it the older home next to the atrium office building? Are they tearing that one down? I thought that was part of the bumby Homestead.

Deli Desires is in that plaza and has some killer sandwiches, good coffee, wine and beer to go. It's quite good! and the owners are taking over the old Sanctum space with a new concept soon.

Any word on the MPB meeting yesterday?

This was one of the FDOT proposal renderings. The multi-use path movement FDOT is using in Orlando really doesn’t cut it.

On Twitter I saw this alternative design by local urbaníste Sam Gallaher. He suggested sending these to the FDOT folks as a response to their adding of more street parking along both sides of Orange in front of Hammered Lamb area.

I don’t know your opinion on Parking minimums, but they generally can help encourage more people centered developments. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/06/08/less-parking-could-mean-more-housing

https://www.cflroads.com/project/445220-1 Here is a link to the plan, with an opportunity to respond to the lead in design from the FDOT. They do not have a dedicated/protected bike lane, and have increased amount of parking, which I think does a disservice to the area as the urbanism increases.

Some pictures from earlier today. The large open area is the now clear Southwest corner of Princeton and OBT. I couldn’t get a picture in my moving vehicle, but there are some condos being built it looks like behind the new YMCA and they’ve made a lot of progress. Also the old round juice stand on the northeast corner is built out.

Blurry and in passing but, they are moving earth and have construction headquarters set up on the property.

Albert Park and Dartmouth Park slated for redo. I saw the story on Your Community Paper. https://www.yourcommunitypaper.com/articles/dartmouth-and-albert-parks-redesigns-move-forward/ and this is the Zoom with Robert Stuart and the design team. https://orlando-gov.zoom.us/rec/play/iEW0ug9zGHN0HqTeS-IXEcqz3LNhQHB82ZTy2KD8egNeyvHj4EWrJcRQ9pdxc3x4sFyA770NE7rwdB_b.7L31BShgLkEgeaP_?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=qSnqLosgQZSlTzaaai7yug.1637196733674.b062dee34515f0786f0d9156017b6b64&_x_zm_rhtaid=40

More site work at Alexan 50.