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I was thinking the same thing tbh. But that's why "low" cities like DC or Paris are shockingly dense: four to ten stories with very few gaps. It'll make a nice streetwall fronting the current Chamber of Commerce / potential Holocaust Center building.

Not even bolding "skinless" or "buns." Getting lazy tsk tsk

I think that was the concept: upscale cocktail bar and nicer restaurant that happens to have some bowling lanes and a pro shop. I did see on Instagram that the Primrose Lanes chefs grind and smoke the sausage in-house with choice cuts and upgraded buns. You can't really compare that to Hot Dog Heaven's out-of-the-bag skinless Vienna Beef hot dogs on a processed bun. That said, the bowling prices will keep me going to Boardwalk for actual bowling.

Lol thanks. I was thinking of plywood getting wet and buckling, the plastic nets melting, etc.

Heat-related or just bad scaffolding?

City: "Here's your $49 crepe myrtle from Home Depot and some rocks, enjoy! ✌"

I always thought with the right gauges, platforms, clearances, etc. they could be interchangeable (i.e. a light rail train set could use heavy rail tracks)?

Interesting. Based on the long late-night lines I've seen at Gringos, I'd expect them to swap buildings.

I just hope they make good choices with the tracks they'll have. With N-S and W-E tracks, they could easily have multiple colored routes: DeBary-Poinciana (full N-S) but also DeBary-Airport, Poinciana-Airport; I-Drive-Airport (full W-E), but also DeBary-I-Drive, De-Bary-Airport, Poinciana-I-Drive, Poinciana-Airport.

I was hoping they could combine the Hoods Up lot with the white warehouse building next to it for more space, e.g. brewery in the warehouse and a taproom in the Hoods Up building. Or maybe a small local chain like the miniature Gringo's next door. But I can also see Floyd's rubbing their hands together to convert another abandoned auto repair place into a barbershop.

If there were a transfer between downtown and the airport, I would literally never use SunRail to get to the airport.

Edgewater was completely redone in 2002. Which I realize is 20+ years ago, but it's still in great shape. (And most the Orlando cycling community isn't thrilled about the plan to remove bike lanes from Edgewater...) They just replaced a bunch of pavers on downtown sidewalks to have a more consistent look with the hexagons. This was part of Project DTO 2.0, I believe. You're right, Orange Avenue along Lake Ivanhoe, Corrine Drive, and Robinson Street are finally being redesigned and funding looks to be in place. I guess I'm still disgruntled after hearing about study after study for these areas over the last 15 years with little to no action. Meanwhile, we've had plans and visions for Lymmo expansions, South Orange Avenue improvements, Colonial Drive corridor improvements, two-way streets downtown, etc. that have sat on the shelf for years. To each his own. I just feel like Orlando has nothing of grandeur, no wide open spaces. The current Seneff Plaza is the closest thing we have to a public square that can either 1) add a sense of place to the DPAC and City Hall or 2) act as a flexible space for gatherings and events. Additionally, I think it's a pitfall of American public space design that everything has to revolve around an activity and spending money.

Why does the City insist on over-programming every park space we have? We need to stop re-doing things that are relatively new (Seneff Plaza, Edgewater Drive, downtown sidewalks) and focus on new assets to the community (Holocaust Museum, Corrine Drive, Orange Avenue at Ivanhoe).

Final coat of paint looks completed on the Woodward side and is progressing on the Fern Creek side.

That stretch of Colonial is one of the last swaths of high-density zoning in the city that's really underdeveloped. An apartment building at the Bento site to match the one at Colonial & Fern Creek would create a nice balance. Colonial & Bumby also acts as an eastern gateway into the "traditional city," so more density there would be great. Now we just need more apartments along Colonial & Thornton. And, if this were Sim City, I'd plop down an elevated train along Colonial from downtown to UCF...

I was thinking it was a bionic hand to represent our simulation/training/motion capture industry at UCF / Research Park.

14 stories / 270,846 sf with 150-room hotel, medical offices, conference center, a restaurant, and shops.

The only historical parts of the building were the decorative additions, e.g., clocks, stained glass, and lighting fixtures rescued from demolished train stations. Hopefully some of that was salvaged.

It's just strange that Coy and Bumby have relatively nice, sleek mast arms just a few blocks downs: I believe the big squares were put in on OBT to visually reduce the expansiveness of the intersections, which is also designed to reduce car speeds. It's a little bit like some 7-11s or the Colonial & Bumby Wendy's having a fake wall around the perimeter: it creates a "streetwall" where there are no buildings against the street.

Encouraged ≠ required.

Maybe it's from growing up in the '80s/90s, but astroturf will always look trashy to me.

Good points. It's a shame that the Barnie's could've activated a little park / plaza situation, but turned into a Publix Liquors. I think all new urbanist communities severely miss the mark on access to public transit. And the fact that the workers at the main street shops can't actually afford to live there.

Honest question: what do you think Baldwin Park is missing?

If only there were a way for Central Florida leaders and voters to focus on increased public transit, transit-oriented development, form-based code that prohibits strip malls and outparcels, and a moratorium on single-family homes... oh wait, that's all possible.

Corrine Drive over here like...