Downtown Orlando Project Discussion

[d4nz]

First one to open will be The Hyppo which will be the first gourmet popsicle shop in Orlando. They have a store in St. Augustine currently and as you can see, people love it. It really is an amazing product so very exciting to have it locally. This is going in the old Slate modeling space.

http://www.urbanspoo...po-St-Augustine

WOB is going to be the next to open. They are going to have the patio on the side where the current brick roundabout is. That road will be torn up and some of it claimed along with the grass right there to make the patio.

The last tenant going into the old Eola Wine space is some sort of salad and wrap type concept. Don't know too much right now because they won't be open till next year.

I'll let you know if I hear anything else.

The wrap/salad place going in over there is going to be Eden's Fresh () third location and should be open before the end of the year. They have a spot right across from the Plaza building that I go to all the time

[FLheat]

I had a meeting with the downtown development board and they said that Eight Ninety Nine Apartments will break ground before the end of the year. They also stated that it is looking like we will have two buildings breaking ground next spring in the Creative Village.

[spenser1058]

btw, the long-time Texaco station at S. Orange and Gore is being converted to a 7-Eleven. If you're keeping track at home, that's now 5 (count 'em, five!) between Colonial Drive and Gore! Downtown Orlando - a retail mecca!

[gibby]

The old Steak and Ale at Edgewater and Colonial will also become a 7-11 soon.

[spenser1058]

The old Steak and Ale at Edgewater and Colonial will also become a 7-11 soon.

6! (this, of course, is not even counting the ones at Robinson/Primrose, Colonial/Westmoreland and Mills/Colonial - Mayor Bloomberg may not like Big Gulps, but, by God, Buddy does! )

[gibby]

I'd imagine that Westmorland would have to close but I'm not certain.

[John Hargrove]

That's why the Texaco closed? I rolled in there a few weeks ago with like 0.00001 gallons of gas left and was greeted with disabled pumps. I managed to get to the next gas station on fumes.

[PSGraham]

I had a meeting with the downtown development board and they said that Eight Ninety Nine Apartments will break ground before the end of the year. They also stated that it is looking like we will have two buildings breaking ground next spring in the Creative Village.

Where are these apartments going? South Eola by any chance?

Does anyone know if there is any activity in in the South Eola area. Specifically the land surrounding the Star Tower. Seems like a perfect place for apartments. I know there were some planned at one time, but not sure if anything is going on now.

[Jernigan]

899 N Orange Avenue

[eq74]

I had a meeting with the downtown development board and they said that Eight Ninety Nine Apartments will break ground before the end of the year. They also stated that it is looking like we will have two buildings breaking ground next spring in the Creative Village.

A fence is up around the 899 lot. Bad news for people in the area who have apartement dogs that need to be walked and...well...you know...

[jnorlando]

A fence is up around the 899 lot. Bad news for people in the area who have apartement dogs that need to be walked and...well...you know...

awesome, hard to believe this project started as two green, twin towers called "Verde"

still excited to see movement on this lot.

[FLClarkKent]

awesome, hard to believe this project started as two green, twin towers called "Verde"

still excited to see movement on this lot.

Is there a rendering for this project? I remember the Verde, but not this.

[Jernigan]

899, The Sevens, Steel House, O+C Hotel....that's a lot of work happening in a very small area. Love it.

If you still subscribe to the Sentinel - please stop. We need them to pack up and close up shop

[spenser1058]

Don't mind the Slantinel - they've been pandering of late to the geezers up in The Villages who still pay for dead-tree papers (it became more noticeable of the editorial page's slant moving to the right about 2 years ago and we often notice more political news some days about Lake County than about Orange). We now call it the Leesburg Sentinel.

In any event, they've lost so much of their journalism staff since Tribune Co. tanked that it's a mere shell of its former self anyway. Florida, which once had a number of great newspapers (including the Sentinel), now has only the Tampa Bay Times as the state's newspaper of record. Special kudos to the Florida Times-Union, though, for doing really great work on downtown and development stories.

[prahaboheme]

Sounds like an opportunity for an aspiring journalist to fill the gap. Sentinel has gone way down hill.

[jnorlando]

Is there a rendering for this project? I remember the Verde, but not this.

i'm sure there is somewhere, although i'm not quite sure where. i'll keep my eyes open for it.

[spenser1058]

From OBJ:

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/print-edition/2011/07/22/developer-envisions-downtown-orlando.html?page=all

Midrise seems to be the new trend for Uptown, or maybe we should call it Midtown now....

[RedStar25]

I think as "uptown" fills in it will become "midtown". Mills Park up to Lochhaven might become "uptown".

[prahaboheme]

[bulldogger]

Steelhouse is like an M&M. Soft on the inside with a hard shell on the outside for looks.

[jgardnerucf]

Keep those 1st floor windows bolted down and locked, if not, its steal house.

[alex]

Oh, architectural renderings... where people pour out of a building to leisurely cross Colonial and Orange as cars wait patiently.

Jokes aside, I'm actually realy excited about this and the other projects creating and Uptown-soon-to-be-midtown boom. If we can gets Ustler's 800 N Orange Ave and his hotel that would replace Mama B's going, we'll have a pretty dense vein running through the heart of Orlando.

[Captain.Metro]

With all this development, easy access to I-4 and surrounding College Park, Ivanhoe, Colonial Town, Downtown/Thornton Park-- Midtown is prime for destination retail development.

[nite owℓ]

While looking for rental comps in the area I saw this strange ad for Steel House:

Btw, the OC hotel isn't going to replace Mama B's because the owners didn't want to sell (I heard they weren't offered enough money). Instead, the hotel will be built around Mama B's in an "L" shape.

[alex]

Btw, the OC hotel isn't going to replace Mama B's because the owners didn't want to sell (I heard they weren't offered enough money). Instead, the hotel will be built around Mama B's in an "L" shape.

That's right, thanks for the correction. Also, these are the board minutes -- anyone know when they might get started?