The Milk District

[sunshine]

Half of it will be demo for Storage units.

[jgardnerucf]

8 hours ago, sunshine said:

Half of it will be demo for Storage units.

Dumb.  And it sucks.

[Jernigan]

Why?

[sunshine]

Money

[Jernigan]

I mean why does it suck.  If the upper floors were office or apartments, and you didn’t live or work there, would it really be any different?   Embrace the storage unit and demand good form and good ground level uses 

[codypet]

According to the Sentinel its not planned to reopen and according to Orlando Weekly its being renovated.  I have not idea what's going on.

[AmIReal]

Update. Closing for good, per owner. https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/05/18/colonial-lanes-will-close-forever-next-week

 

[spenser1058]

14 minutes ago, AmIReal said:

Update. Closing for good, per owner. https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/05/18/colonial-lanes-will-close-forever-next-week

 

I suspected that would be the case. It wasn't like at Colonial Plaza where you could just take a 60-year old big box and convert it to a similar (retail) purpose. Their intentional vagueness also did not bode well.

So a unique, if tattered, period structure with a great consumer use will be replaced by a sterile box of boxes dedicated to mindless overconsumption (see Suze Orman.) This is the stereotype of Orlando we hate made true.

Edited May 18, 2018 by spenser1058

[JFW657]

It's a shame that parcel couldn't have been (or just wasn't) zoned solely for retail, restaurant or entertainment use.

What a wasted use of a great location.

We should send the owners nasty letters. Wouldn't do any good but would probably make one feel better.

[jgardnerucf]

What a wasted use of a great location.

That's my reason. First, the Chi Chi's and now this? It's tacky.

[nite owℓ]

There's already a Public Storage facility across the street and plans for another self storage development at the corner of Colonial & Magnolia. I'm surprised there aren't any zoning restrictions that would limit the number of storage facilities within X miles of each other.

[spenser1058]

There's also a good sized one on Mills. We're awash in the darn things.

[JFW657]

It's not that they are so objectionable in and of themselves, it's just that they just sit there and generate nothing in the way of activity or atmosphere. Dead space.

I didn't mind the idea of a remodelled bowling alley on the bottom with public storage above or some other configuration of the two.

But just storage and nothing else sucks.

[sunshine]

Why people have so much stuff to store?

[Jernigan]

3 hours ago, sunshine said:

Why people have so much stuff to store?

1) move downtown

2) downsize to do so

3) will do an addition....someday 

[spenser1058]

I've never had a storage unit, never owned a gun (other than the Daisy my brother gave me for Christmas when I was 12) and Ford sees no use for me as a customer any longer after driving their products most of my life because I don't want a truck or SUV.

Truly, I am a failure as an American.

[JFW657]

I've used storage units twice, both times when I was moving. Since the friends who I'd helped move on more than one occasion weren't dependable enough for me to count on to reciprocate and I didn't trust any of them enough to be handling my possessions anyway, I pretty much did it myself. A storage unit gave me plenty of time to get all my stuff out of the place I was vacating and plenty of time to get it moved into the new place.

Didn't have to rush or be in a great big hurry to get it done all at once in one or two days.

[popsiclebrandon]

Dana Ward of Real Estate Closing Solutions is opening a brewery in Milk District called SideWard Brewing. Good location fit, we'll see on the beer.

[spenser1058]

With Colonial Lanes closing, which Orlando places do we miss the most?
http://bit.ly/2GGAd9m

From the Sentinel

[spenser1058]

50 years of BEEFY! (and BEEFY spuds, too.) Yummy...

As Beefy King turns 50, meet folks that have been eating there since it opened
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/consumer/os-bz-beefy-king-50-years-20180530-story.html

From the Sentinel

[I am Reality]

On 5/22/2018 at 9:51 PM, spenser1058 said:

With Colonial Lanes closing, which Orlando places do we miss the most?
http://bit.ly/2GGAd9m

From the Sentinel

Easy...The Hungry Bear Restaurant 

[FLClarkKent]

On 5/22/2018 at 9:51 PM, spenser1058 said:

With Colonial Lanes closing, which Orlando places do we miss the most?
http://bit.ly/2GGAd9m

From the Sentinel

The Red Fox Lounge!

[popsiclebrandon]

The Red Fox lounge sign is for some reason being held at Factur. I want it.

[FLClarkKent]

2 minutes ago, popsiclebrandon said:

The Red Fox lounge sign is for some reason being held at Factur. I want it.

That was an amazing place, really one of a kind and completely authentic.  I loved taking out of town guests and first timers there. 

[orlandoguy]

This morning on my way to work I noticed dirt piles and a silt fence on the block behind the South Street Chevron at Primrose and Jackson. Anyone know what's going on?