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Orlando Fashion Square [Renovation in Progress]

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AndyPok1
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Hey guys! I found a beer bottle!

JFW657
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It looks to be just about the right size for a 7 Eleven though....

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Drove by today. Bulk of trees are outside construction fence, and appear to be in the city's right of way.

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3 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

I think that Fazoli's was originally built as an El Pollo Loco franchise owned by Manny Garcia (of Pebbles and BK fame).

I don't remember an EPL being there. The only one of those I can think of ever being in the central part of town is the one on S. Orange near Michigan. 

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I know there was one because we used to eat there a lot when I lived right off Bumby (their roast chicken was better than Boston Market's, imho, which had a location on Church St back then - this was the late 80's.)

Come to think of it, that was the only EPL I ever ate at. I'm almost certain the Fazoli's took its place (Manny got out of the franchise and all the local EPL's disappeared). By the time that happened, I had just decided to go to the Publix Deli instead (on sale, it's cheaper than Boston Market although the sides are kind of limited.) 

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News to me about SoDo but the Fashion Square one has been there for a good while.

Read recently that they are closing 55 stores so I figured one of ours would go.    I live in SoDo and am excited for something to come in an replace it personally 

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On 4/8/2017 at 4:22 PM, JFW657 said:

Just found out today that the Noodles & Company at Orange and Michigan closed down and moved to Fashion Square.

Didn't know that.

They hadn't been there very long, had they?

The one in the parking lot of Fashion Square was there before the one in SoDo was even built. You sure the one in SoDo closed?

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31 minutes ago, bqknight said:

The one in the parking lot of Fashion Square was there before the one in SoDo was even built. You sure the one in SoDo closed?

Yep. Walked up to the door and looked inside. The roof signage is all gone and there are signs on both front doors saying that they've left and "will be" reopening at Fashion Square. 

Apparently they've been closed for some time now.

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On 4/10/2017 at 9:23 AM, JFW657 said:

Yep. Walked up to the door and looked inside. The roof signage is all gone and there are signs on both front doors saying that they've left and "will be" reopening at Fashion Square. 

Apparently they've been closed for some time now.

I ate there 2 weeks ago.  Couldn't have been closed that long.  That's super upsetting because I love Noodles and I'm just getting ready to move into my house in Wadeview.  Was looking forward to walking there a bunch :(

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Heard a piece on NPR that made me think of the Colonial Mall, many strip stores and the drum that seems to beat itself: neo-street based retail. I was interested in the idea of a street grid thrown down on former mall areas and what I thought of as SOHO models and urban retail being the future. What's old is new again.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526560158/a-rapid-shakeup-for-retailers-as-consumer-habits-change

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Ugh that makes me sick.  At least I can take solace in the fact that I snuck into the 2nd floor and looked around during the liquidation.

Incidentally, Everyone has noticed the center across the street just lost two retailers to bankruptcy right?  HHGREGG and Sports Authority are both gone.

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It's kind of interesting that the Montgomery Ward building lives on mostly intact as part of OCSO. Meanwhile, both the Sears stores in the city limits are now gone, even though Sears tended to be more successful in Orlando than Monkey Ward ever was. Significantly, the MW on West Colonial was something of a state of the art flagship store at the time for them while neither Sears was particularly memorable in terms of architecture.

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What was kind of cool about the MW on W. Colonial was its initial pretensions at being a tad more upscale than mass merchandisers Sears and Penney. I don't know if it was because of the Spring Lake/Country Club area being so close by, but the store fixtures and programs like the Wendy Ward charm school (my sister was a proud graduate!) were a step above the other chains Ward usually competed with.

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