AndyPok1

Yes. If you choose to live as part of the sprawl, then you lose convenience.

I'm not sure what this even means? There's numerous restaurants and bars that are lovely to go to and it would be great to do so without driving. Lots of my friends have moved into this area because its become the best combination of "affordable/close to DT/has stuff".

Was randomly clicking around the property appraiser... This plaza of the Archery/Jeweler/Cleaner/Cremation was sold for 2.25M last month

Ha maybe I should have offered to buy it from him before it went to his kids

You're more of an optimist than I. Over 50% of these single 3000 sqft take up the full lot with the house homes that have been built in the neighborhood since I've moved in have all gone up for resale practically exactly at the 2 year mark. And yeah, I SWEAR it used to be R-2. Because when I bought on Jersey, one of the pro-cons is that weirdly even though its the closest to Michigan, it was the only R-1 in the neighborhood. But then when I looked it up again last year Page and others were R-1. I started trying to track down the various zoning changes to see if I was crazy, but then I got lazy. Also, part of the reason I'm so annoyed about it is I did WAY too deep of a dive into the owners. Dude and his wife moved here from New York and worked a govt job and just managed to own basically the entirety of Page St. As @jack mentioned, did not maintain them at all. And then when they passed away they got buried back in New York. Like you lived here for over 40 years but clearly didn't feel like it was home. While its not as bad as Institutional Investor, its not much better.

I'm beyond saddened by these and I have to drive/walk by them every day. I wanted two of those lots for my forever home (and ideally get them re-re-zoned for townhomes), but with the boom in the past year or two, the kids that inherited those lots from their parents when they passed a few years back were able to get over $2M for the combination of them... now an investor is building 6 more generic homes, so yet more profit with no benefit to locals.

How in the world is there space on the southeast corner for a mast arm? That is already the most narrow pedestrian unfriendly corner in the city.

Honestly rebuilding the upper decks is probably needed to keep the events we have for more than the next 5 years or so. We cheaped out last time, and it's catching up. There's also talk of WWE bringing Royal Rumble in January (the 2nd or 3rd biggest show behind WrestleMania) to either Orlando or Tampa. Past few years its been a stadium show, so assuming it would be at Camping World if it happens. (Coincidentally enough, the last two years have been San Antonio and St Louis. Which are probably the 2 most directly comparable facilities to CWS in regards to football stadium without a tenant but still keeps operating.)

Oh I thought it was all one big effort

Its continuing the work done Pineloch to Grant? It's been under way for probably over a year now

I'm intrigued to see how having the rental counters on the side of the bridge are going to work. Hopefully there's never more than a person or two at the counter...

Are they moving? I've bought so many pieces for my house from there!

Unsure why the hate of pop music. BSB is still touring and crushing. Different eras. There's things to appreciate about both types of music.

I think people trying to sneak in for restrooms is a tale as old as time. But typically if you get caught you just walk away. To @codypet's point, there's now an aggressiveness and entitlement. Parking is such a delicate issue. I'm all for getting rid of parking. However, much of downtown business is a service economy. Those bartenders need somewhere to park because not exactly any transit available at 4AM when shifts end. A lot already park like a mile away.

There's an old rule among AA frequent fliers from before the US merger. In the winter you connect through DFW, and in the summer you connect through ORD. That's how you avoid the lightning/snow. I take a priority on comfort and service. The legacy carriers give that to me by being an elite status by extra leg room seats and first class upgrades, and I save my miles so that I can sleep and lie flat in pods on 10+ hour international flights. In close to 1000 lifetime flights, I've only had my bag not make it to my destination once (it got there 8am the next day), and I've only been delayed so badly that it impacted me 3 times. I know everyone has horror stories, but travel is fun. And the flight is part of the travel. I actually was being literal. This happens to/from MSY for me decently often. Friends take a direct flight on WN/F9/NK and I'll connect through MIA/CLT/AUS/DFW on the way there, and sometimes through two of them on the way home to get extra miles. Its a chill travel day after a fun weekend. Got nowhere to be. I just love air travel. I've spent a day just flying to a random city and back just to relax and read a book. Its like sitting by a pool at a resort, but you can do it on a cloudy day.

The short-ish version is that because a WN plane goes... MCO --> BNA --> DEN --> LAS, as soon as the tech issues impacted the MCO-->BNA flight, the subsequent flights get messed up as well. Whereas at a hub airport, they can repurpose another plane and save the last 2 flights.

I acknowledge I am coming to this discussion as a frequent flier on a legacy carrier, so my views are skewed compared to most people travelling out of MCO, but I massively disagree with this. From an airport standpoint I care so much more about the hub airports. I can't CONTROL my start and end destinations (well I guess I can by living elsewhere or visiting elsewhere), but I can to some degree control where I connect. The only "pressure" on MCO I have is parking and the VERY occasional bag check. Otherwise if my flight departs at 10AM, I am leaving my house at 9A, parking in the garage at 920A, walking to TSA/APM to gate until 930A, go to bathroom at 935A, walk up to gate with already boarding plane and enter plane around 940A. I am continuously moving, not taking up any space at the airport. Whereas at a hub, I am perpetually stopped. I need somewhere to sit. Somewhere to eat. Somewhere to charge phone. Somewhere to get work done. Not to mention the ability to quickly get from gate to gate. I am using so much more of the airport at hubs. And I largely try to choose my connection based off of the facilities. For example, MIA food options are largely crap so I try to avoid there if I know I need to eat during layover. I will happily take 3 connections before I ever fly spirit. Point-to-Point networks have MAJOR downsides as Southwest has shown in the past year. Hubs are the most efficient way to operate a logistic network which is what air travel is (Well arguably, at this point air travel is simply a money-losing front for a bank in the form of miles but that's a different topic).

I supposed that's reasonable. But also that's industry standard of how its counted.

I think you might be going too far in this concept. Yes MCO is more O&D heavy than the major airports. That affects us as locals because of parking, TSA, etc. However, saying that DFW/ORD/ATL aren't busy is silly. The concourses and restaurants and other things are primarily what I think about when talking about a given airport, not its landside facilities. Every one of those connections is a person occupying space in the terminal. ATL is the 8th biggest metro in the US, roughly the same size as Miami, Philly, DC. PLUS, they are the *ONLY* option for miles and miles and miles. DC has BWI. MIA has FLL. If you live within 100 miles, you're probably driving to Atlanta to arrive/depart from. There are plenty of people getting off in ATL as a final destination on an MCO-ATL-PIT flight. Definitely need more garages, and I'm constantly confounded by how they are perpetually full. I've heard that people using Turo are actually eating up a lot of garage spaces but have no way of confirming.

Great shot @jrs2!!

I wanted to meet up but it never happen. Regret.

The only way that's happening is if UA tries to make a play for the southeast. The small domestic carriers aren't international (I'm not counting carribean/latam), so they offer nothing to the alliances. Same way RyanAir or WestJet aren't part of alliances.

Why oh WHY can't there even be HALF of a journalistic bone at Bungalower?!!?! Saying that they were told in December 2022 that there would be no need for a Change of Use if they stayed within set square footage on the bottom floor of the building and that they have records of their dealings with the City that supports their claim .... ALL THIS DOES IS LEAVE ME WITH NUMEROUS QUESTIONS! Did they show these records in support of their claim to Bungalower? Were they able to be verified as not manipulated? (eg presumably emails with mail headers) Assuming both of those are true, reach back out to the city for comment

Do we know why? I saw the signs going up last week but I haven't bothered walking/driving that way to find out.

Again, I said past 15 years. They absolutely had bad luck/bad moves in the 00s with Hill/McGrady/Francis. Those former players are flourishing because they are in a spot where they can be the 3rd option and teams aren't scheming around stopping them. Because that's all they are. There's nothing wrong with being the 25th-50th best players in the league. That's incredible. But its not a recipe for a championship. Magic were never beating the Lakers in that series. I understand the hype after beating the Cavs, but they were a perfect matchup for the Cavs who were built to beat Boston. From 1984-2014, only 8 teams won the NBA title, If you go to current, only 12 have, and 4 of those (Mavs, Cavs, Raptors, Bucks) only have 1. Potential is the name of the game in the NBA. If you're not an unquestioned top 8 team in the league, then you should be knocking it down and rebuilding. Magic are in a perfect spot for the rest of this decade.