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Yes, it's called Wet n Wild.

And I think that was part of the contract for 55W to get some incentive funding or a tax break by the city.

I wonder if they already have a restaurant/lounge/night club concept in mind for the rooftop sky deck.

It's a Fun Spot on steroids. I think there used to be a small go cart attraction at that corner of I Drive.

I had an office on Magnolia years ago (over a decade) and worked through the night. My car went beyond getting a ticket; it was towed away, so that the street could be cleaned. I came down to go home just after dawn and my car was gone. They will ticket you now and just clean around a parked car.

Now if the Lymmo got expanded to Thornton Park, you could park your car somewhere in the core, get a burger at Graffiti Junktion, take the Lymmo over to Draft and continue drinking from a better selection of beer. I did my best not to bring up the concept of a train. And I think the no parking after 2am on Central has to do with street cleaning. Same thing goes for some of the surrounding streets at that time.

Orange County is piping methane directly to OUC power plant generators Very cool that they are doing this. OUC needs to have a program in place and publicized for installing solar panels on roofs of homes. I bet if every home in the city of Orlando had solar panels installed, we could sell electricity through OUC to other regions and actually make money during parts of the year or lower the costs during the hot summer months.

These posts yesterday and today inspired me to write the Governor telling him to support SunRail and a few reasons why I do. I am going to start doing this frequently.

B&G is already starting the retention pond on Winter Park Street for the apartment/condo complex. There is a staging area on the block north for the TRI building which is going in on Princeton next to the 7 Eleven. I finally snapped some photos of that building today. Above: This is the south wall on Princeton and I am facing the 7 Eleven. They already have the foundation poured on this side at least and columns formed for the first floor. Above: This is across Dade Avenue facing east.

codypet, it doesn't take 5 minutes to get a shot off.

Lymmo E/W Corridor Public Meetings LINKAGE Meetings are Monday, March 21 and Wednesday, March 23 - click above for details

They are working on the foundation on TRI. I'll get pictures in the next day or so.

Orange is backing Florida Central Railroad. Orange leaders agree to help fix rail line to Lake

Urban Flats is going under. Urban Flats files for bankruptcy

This TRI project was moving dirt today when I drove by.

I feel the same way. The prices have come down and seem to have leveled off, but Orlando is still not ready to climb back up yet. If the prices remain close to their current levels, we may see a small pop as some of the promised venues and amenities come online. The Publix, movie theater, and new arena are here. Waiting on SunRail and DPAC to round out the promises. Until the condos fill up, there won't be enough weekend daytime pedestrian traffic to sustain more businesses. If the prices weren't inflated from the investor buyers, perhaps some people teetering on the idea of moving downtown could have put more bodies in the buildings and therefore down on the streets. Since the crash, people have been slow to buy and with good reasoning. There's really no way of knowing what could have happened. The parts are still coming together, though. I can tell you this. The foot traffic in downtown Miami / Brickell is amazing now. They have smaller projects coming out of the ground in the area, too.

That's interesting. Thanks for the heads up.

Is it still Kuhn or did he sell it back during his Church Street debacle?

I wasn't trying to pick on you. Sorry if I upset you. I am trying to state that the problem isn't you, but a vocal part of the community that still lives here. They speak against something and they don't know much about it. You obviously know what is going on because you have been on this board here for years.

It looks like the Dolive Building is getting a very minor upgrade on the first floor level in the form of new metal awnings. Does anyone have any conceptual drawings, because I don't know if it is going to look right on that building??

That's understandable, because you don't live here, but there are plenty of people that live in our state that are saying we need to stop the high speed SunRail. They don't even realize that we are discussing two rail projects, yet they know that they are supposed to call it a boondoggle.

Whew!

I haven't found anything specific, but the cuts include over $400 million in DOT spending.

I felt the same way as Jack. I don't feel the same confidence in the High Speed Rail unless we get more money from the fed to completely cover all upfront expenses.

That was the blog link. Here is a link to the actual article. Rick Scott freezes four contracts for SunRail If he really plans on stopping SunRail, would he have given the money to CSX to develop their new rail logistics center already?