[THE Orlando Photo Thread]

7 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Where was Embassy Suites and saw the dual brand Hilton going up across from Radius.   I do think you need more hotels downtown especially with millions upon billions I mean millions of tourists you attracted.

Yeah, millions of tourists also need hotel rooms (that aren’t Just on idrive or the attraction are)

[Downtown Orlando Project Discussion]

It’s not even funny anymore smh 

[Brightline Trains]

16 hours ago, aent said:

Its real easy to come up with benefits for Central Florida residents:

1) A connection from Sunrail to the airport seems more realistic through the Meadowwood station

2) For longer, overseas flights that leave from Miami and don't have Orlando offerings, we can travel by train to Miami's airport and not have to drive down there

3) We can go to visit South Florida and all it has to offer without having to drive or rent a car

4) Less tourists on the road as they can use this system to get to Disney rather then renting a car at the airport

5) We can possibly use a Sunrail to Meadowwood to Disney connection to visit Disney without having to park at Disney.

6) It provides more people who are likely to be willing to use our future transit systems, as it will help improve interconnections and thus ridership numbers on future transit systems.

7) Makes jobs locally

etc

Sunrail to meadowwoods? Does that sound beneficial to you? The ONLY benefit it may have is if sunrail  going to Orlando airport THATS IT. Or maybe if I  was landing at OIA .

[Brightline Trains]

18 hours ago, IAmFloridaBorn said:

So is this in anyway beneficial to the future of central Florida's transit future? 

 

Nobody is talking about inner metro connections which south Florida has. 

I’ve been mentioned that lol, this doesn’t help anyone out except tourist in central Florida. 

[Brightline Trains]

20 hours ago, aent said:

Unfortunately Brightline seems less likely to consider that and stops outside of South Florida. My understanding is the thinking is once the train is at or close to its terminus, adding a few more stops won't actually generally effect the transit time to Orlando. South of the WPB stop, its limited to 80mph. But stopping the train while it could be travelling 125mph from West Palm to Cocoa will introduce a much bigger, and less beneficial delay. That seems to be the strategy: several stops in each major metro, but nothing between them. They've generally been quiet about the possibility of a Lakeland stop. I'm curious if they're considering it or they want faster speeds to Tampa and to avoid it.

Lol why would they stop in Lakeland???? they don’t even have a real stop in Orlando. If they make a stop in Lakeland that’ll just be a wasted stop that could have been an extra one for orlando convention area or even the port area. There’s nothing in Lakeland lol

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

12 minutes ago, JFW657 said:

In your opinion.

The thing at the bottom is almost certainly some kind of connecting lobby or pass through. If it were ever built, it would likely have windows or be covered in all glass.

I don't understand why everyone is raving about it being so awesome.

Personally, I don't care for those "Jenga" buildings and I hope this design for T2 doesn't survive.

Just another architectural fad afaic.

 we are raving because this would be the greatest building ever constructed in metro Orlando. 

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

8 minutes ago, orlandouprise said:

if built like that...it looks like a NYC, Brickell, quality building IMO

 

9 minutes ago, orlandouprise said:

if built like that...it looks like a NYC, Brickell, quality building IMO

If they build that  I’m telling you I’m kissing someone’s foot 

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

 

I think I like this building more from the side

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

15 hours ago, Uncommon said:

Does that mean it’s topped off?

Um duh

[MLS Soccer Stadium]

Actually exploria isn’t that bad of a name, we’ve had worse “camping world”

[The Yard at Ivanhoe | Mixed-Use [Under Construction]]

15 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

Although they’re trying to kill it with all these soulless mid-rises, Ivanhoe has a funky quality to it that makes it more interesting than downtown in many ways (and I say that as someone who’s lived downtown since God was a child).

 

 

How are they killing it? Lol Orlando is growing just like any other city in America 

[Creative Village]

4 hours ago, JFW657 said:

They're doing a tour of the UCF/VD campus on Central Florida Spotlight on channel 9 right now, if anyone's innarrested.

This is only phase 1 chill

[Cambria Hotel and Suites | 8-Story 155-Room Hotel [Approved]]

23 hours ago, JFW657 said:

We used to have the downtown Expo Center, but that never really did much to bring in out of town guests. I'm not sure the city would even want to attempt to compete with I-Drive and the big convention hotels down there anyway. I'm thinking maybe that area pretty much has the local convention market sewn up tight. 

Sooo.... what is a "y'all building" anyway?

I think we've got our share of them already!!!! 

*tall 

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

I’m all for saving buildings only if it is a right fit, these are not a right fit for such an urban area that is next to the tallest building in downtown, so tear it down!

[I4 - Beyond the Ultimate [Pre-construction]]

10 hours ago, W7edwin said:

they should've just closed the whole interstate, bulldoze it, and rebuild it from scratch... would've been done by 2017 

lol is this sarcasm? 

I’m really interested in the landscaping that they apply to this when it is all done, knowing Orlando we are going to get some generic ass landscaping.

[Cambria Hotel and Suites | 8-Story 155-Room Hotel [Approved]]

On 5/28/2019 at 4:06 PM, jrs2 said:

Oh how I wish that was the case for downtown Orlando, but unfortunately, the tourist corridor(s) do not translate to the downtown district.

 

 

12 hours ago, dcluley98 said:

I like this hotel a lot for the area. The design looks good, it isn't overwhelming in scale next to the Orthodox church next to it (although the deck and the church might clash a bit on Sundays) and doesn't block out views of the rest of downtown buildings from the lake. It has potential to add traffic to the lake and to Washington, with other GF retail space, and will fill in a nasty vacant lock and block out the monolithic AT&T building from view. 

Whole lot to like and I hope it goes through. 

I always tell people that a great city doesn’t need y’all buildings, just look at D.C

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

1 hour ago, nite owℓ said:

Not to sound heartless, but in the name of progress all of it can go.

Dracarys.

 

I agree 

[SunRail]

If only Daytona was smart enough to realize what kind of economic impact it would bring there if the sun rail extended to the beach. 

[Cambria Hotel and Suites | 8-Story 155-Room Hotel [Approved]]

16 hours ago, JFW657 said:

 

So, if 123,000 guests stayed downtown over a 3 month period, that equals around 41,000 per month. There are 11 hotels downtown if you count the one on Orange Ave across from Orlando Health.

That's an average of about 3727 guests per month at each hotel, which works out to about 124 guests per hotel per day.

I guess that's a pretty good number and apparently it's keeping them profitable, but imagine if a thousand or two thousand more available rooms were suddenly tossed into the pot without a significant increase in the number of visitors.

I would think the current number of downtown hotels more or less reflects the current demand, though I'm sure that demand slowly but steadily increasing, and as it does, obviously we'll see more hotels going up.

But I still think downtown Orlando has yet to really come into its own as a destination unto itself.

It doesn’t matter, Orlando is Orlando. 75 million visitors in one year which will increase is reason enough to continue to build hotels anywhere in Orlando rather it’s downtown or I drive, you know some folks don’t want to stay around Disney or the attractions, similar to folks not wanting to stay on the strip in Vegas.

[Cambria Hotel and Suites | 8-Story 155-Room Hotel [Approved]]

On 5/21/2019 at 12:16 PM, jrs2 said:

yes...I guess so... it's hard to believe that it's been that long...but I just checked the dates of the photos in this thread above.

wow.  well, Radisson Blu changed their project to mirror the trends.  But, the 2-story Travelodge is being converted into a 10-story hotel (site is still fenced off).  If that gets built, that will add like a hundred or so rooms within 3 blocks of Washington & Rosalind; might be too much for the area to absorb.

I wonder if these guys also have a contingency plan to do something similar to Radisson Blu.  If they do, the project would have to be much taller to get more units built.  

Orlando Will never have enough hotels, if anything we need more downtown so people can stay in the actual city rather than stay on Disney’s property and think that is all of Orlando.

[Creative Village]

Bland village is coming along 

[Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]]

I’m sure at night time it’ll look decent, but yes it is ugly af

[Vertical Medical City | 40-Story Medical High Rise [Proposed]]

I like it, it’s a better design than what’s been being built the past few years

[409 North Magnolia [Under Construction]]

I love it actually 

[Colonial Pedestrian Overpass and OUT Extension [Under Construction]]

4 hours ago, jrs2 said:

The Sears Tower was built in a little over 2 years from April 1971- May 1973.    That's just amazing.

Now compare that mass and bulk and compare it to Florida standards of taking their sweet @ss time on stuff.

Exactly, we don’t have a structure over 500ft but projects still take forever to finish.