Downtown Orlando Tallest Buildings (Meters/Feet)

[HankStrong]

I can't wait for Vertical Medical City to blow all of these away!

 

 

[spenser1058]

https://youtu.be/6h7PBzic--8
 

[jrs2]

4 hours ago, HankStrong said:

I can't wait for Vertical Medical City to blow all of these away!

 

 

if they ever built that VMC building- not the tall tall one, rather, the shorter design with curved and split design between 300'-400', up there at 1000 Orange Ave or whatever, that would be awesome.

[RedStar25]

On 8/8/2019 at 9:14 PM, aent said:

I don't think they would have been able to get as much square footage if it was actually downtown, and without the square footage, we wouldn't be consistently within the top 3 in the country.

Eh, bulldoze Paramore. 

[spenser1058]

On 8/8/2019 at 5:36 PM, jrs2 said:

agreed.

The room generation a CC creates of that magnitude is incredible.  Look at NOLA and those tall towers of Marriott and Sheraton et al.  Also, in LA, the LA Live complex with JW and Ritz are adjacent to their CC.

Volusia was smart.  The Ocean Center was built right on A1A, the tourist strip, in Daytona.  Oddly enough, Orange did a similar thing with the OC Civic Center back in, what, 1984-85, when they put it on I-Drive?  maybe they copied the Volusia model when they maybe should've placed more clout on the CBD like Atlanta and Chicago did.  Who knows...

Voters in the county determined the location of OCCC in the late ‘70’s. Iirc, there were about four choices, three in the general tourist area and one in what is now CV downtown. I think downtown came in third.

First of all, at that time, downtown wasn’t the “it” place to be (a less kind but no less accurate description was that it was pretty much dead except the 9-5 crowd other than Rosie’s, which was just one bar then). That didn’t change until Mayor Bill was elected a few years later.

Second, the big knock on downtown was no one wanted all the traffic it was believed it would generate to be in town.

Edited August 27, 2022 by spenser1058