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Thank you for the update. One weekend back in April I made a lot of appointments and visited a number of downtown properties. All were nice but your location really stood out. Off the beaten path but not so much. Plus I can just cross the intersection to Jury duty! Looking forward to that new building smell. Thanks again.

Every move contains an amount of stress about about your new place so thank you for the insight. Oh, I know about Orange Ave...it’s one reason why I picked a place a distance from it. But...I can walk there if I want to ever express my wild side.

Cap1 as Southeast Bank Building with the original glass. It looked like this when I moved here. I do prefer the original glass.

Here is a reference to what also has been proposed for this site from 2006. It is a whole block design also. It looks like it would have gobbled up the parcel Central Station is currently on.

I am moving in October 15. I have lived in Orlando most my life but have never lived downtown. Though for the last 30 years I have been inching closer- Union Park> Hourglass District> Milk District... Warning! I am about to ramble! If you want very little field info on The Radius read on... About a month ago I went on a Radius “hard hat tour” for people who have already submitted rental agreements (like me) and potential renters and there were about 12 of us. It consisted of putting on hard hats (duh but it was sort of cool), entering a side door and up like 4 flights of stairs to the first floor of rental units (I guess ground floor retail will have tall ceilings and it does mean my “4th floor” unit is 5 stories up), down an unfinished hallway and being able to view 2 different floor plan finished units (no display furniture). Neither unit was my floor plan but I got to see what to expect. Seemed like the walls were pretty solid (good for noise or lack of) and the floor coverings look quality and very nice. Appliances and unit fixtures of course were what you would expect in a new building. And that was it for the tour. Nothing else was available for touring. I got to meet the staff I had been talking to for months and they are as friendly in person as they are on the phone. My unit faces the plaza. I have only seen the plaza landscaping from pictures posted on here (thank you BTW) and am hoping they are not finished yet. New I know but a little barren looking. I’ll get down there soon to check in person. I am looking forward to my downtown experience. It really will be a different lifestyle for me.

This is the main image that I originally wanted to post with my earlier entry this morning. But I couldn’t find it and thought it was tossed. Found it! I like that’s it in color and pretty detailed.

Lol about memory! I can’t tell you how many things I forgot I had while digging up that stuff this morning for the posts. Of course I paused a lot looking at some things and wondering why I saved them. Curious, did you get that DuPont model pic from something like this:

I was lucky enough to also see that model while going to a really nice fancy restaurant on the ground floor for dinner shortly after the building opened. The restaurant didn’t last long but that model was really cool. I would be posting a picture of it if cell phones had cameras and didn’t weigh 10 pounds back then.

Here is half a rendering of DuPont Center, a rendering obviously from an Atari game, and a view perspective. Better than nothing? I agree with JFW657, I have never seen a rendering of the full Center.

You can put me down on the list of those whose favorite unbuilt complex is this one.