Orlando Sentinel Property Redevelopment (PLANNED)

[jliv]

There's some movement on the redevelopment of the Orlando Sentinel property, as reported by the Orlando Business Journal: https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2021/02/12/orlando-downtown-redevelopment-alex-vadia.html.

Seems like it needs a new thread! (sorry for the blurry screenshot)

 

Edited February 12, 2021 by jliv

[WAJAS]

I appreciate them braking up the plot. Looks good to me so far. I don't expect high density this far north.

[elefants]

23 minutes ago, WAJAS said:

I appreciate them braking up the plot. Looks good to me so far. I don't expect high density this far north.

I'd love to see something that approaches the height of the Wells Fargo tower.   It looks weird as the only big building in the area.

Edited February 12, 2021 by elefants

[Jerry95]

This is also from the same report, looks promising for density.

[elefants]

3 hours ago, Jerry95 said:

This is also from the same report, looks promising for density.

Pie in the sky.  To say that is unlikely would be an understatement.  Still... one can dream.

[codypet]

No way that NY subs guy gives up his gas station.  

Yea come on, some of those buildings are taller than the courthouse.

Edited February 13, 2021 by codypet

[spenser1058]

The irony is that in the late ‘80’s - early ‘90’s, as the Radisson, Olympia Place and Gateway Center were being built, no one imagined that basically everything north of Amelia was destined to be an adventure in squatty apartment buildings. 

Olympia Place 2, a tower that fell victim to the crash of the Campeau development empire, along with Bill duPont’s crash and burn as collateral damage in Poppy Bush’s S&L meltdown, cast a chill over the zone that we’ve never recovered from. 

There were tools that could  have been used to work around it but the city had other priorities. It is what it is.
 

 

 

[orange87]

If this gets even one tower that's at least 20 stories I'll be happy.

[gibby]

If they can get that sweet road grid added through there and get a ton of units entitled, I'll be happy.

[dcluley98]

[spenser1058]

2 hours ago, gibby said:

If they can get that sweet road grid added through there and get a ton of units entitled, I'll be happy.

I do like they’re going for the road grid.

[dcluley98]

crap that's likely Colonial in the forground. I crap-posted my own faled expectation

[elefants]

The only structure left standing on the southern block is a single wall.  There are a number of really nice, mature trees that I really hope somehow get incorporated in the redevelopment. 

 

Edited February 24, 2021 by elefants

[F-L-A]

Can't wait to see these plots sit empty for many years to come. Very exciting. 

[IAmFloridaBorn]

26 minutes ago, F-L-A said:

Can't wait to see these plots sit empty for many years to come. Very exciting. 

Exactly. There is nothing shakin with this land.

 

I actual wish we could get another park here .

 

 

Edited February 25, 2021 by IAmFloridaBorn

[dcluley98]

Ahem. . . . Park and DT Museum.  .  . 

[codypet]

Probably would be a good spot for a park on at least half the southern block.

[prahaboheme]

Something along the size and scale of the Heumarkt in Cologne Germany would be ideal for this area --

- lined with 7-8 story buildings (some perhaps higher) with cafes and retail at ground level

- overflowing into a plaza that can be used for both passive or active uses

Example:  https://goo.gl/maps/WQWXgxn4vEjDEE1fA

 

[spenser1058]

2 minutes ago, prahaboheme said:

Something along the size and scale of the Heumarkt in Cologne Germany would be ideal for this area --

- lined with 7-8 story buildings (some perhaps higher) with cafes and retail at ground level

- overflowing into a plaza that can be used for both passive or active uses

Example:  https://goo.gl/maps/WQWXgxn4vEjDEE1fA

 

Steve Berry, best-selling author of Dan Brown-esque thrillers, has a new book out this week, “The Kaiser’s Web”, where the action spends a bit of time in Cologne.

This is of note to us because Steve has just moved to... Orlando!

[prahaboheme]

37 minutes ago, spenser1058 said:

Steve Berry, best-selling author of Dan Brown-esque thrillers, has a new book out this week, “The Kaiser’s Web”, where the action spends a bit of time in Cologne.

This is of note to us because Steve has just moved to... Orlando!

Great city (with a lot of lessons in developing modern pedestrian scaled spaces). Could wander endlessly there.

[AmIReal]

4 hours ago, prahaboheme said:

Something along the size and scale of the Heumarkt in Cologne Germany would be ideal for this area --

- lined with 7-8 story buildings (some perhaps higher) with cafes and retail at ground level

- overflowing into a plaza that can be used for both passive or active uses

Example:  https://goo.gl/maps/WQWXgxn4vEjDEE1fA

 

I definitely do not want to see a park of green here as I think it would be a poor use of the property, but the Heumarkt type development would be very nice.

[ChiDev]

I would give up pie in the sky hopes for a Museum lol.  Would be lucky to get a park and a grocery store.   Everyone on here hopes for skyscrapers and anvil shaped buildings, I would settle for efficient combined use of parking to create open space.

Reminds me of a proposal we did for a campus in Old Town Chicago.  The towers share both above ground and subterranean parking decks to create some nice open space.

[WAJAS]

12 hours ago, ChiDev said:

I would give up pie in the sky hopes for a Museum lol.  Would be lucky to get a park and a grocery store.   Everyone on here hopes for skyscrapers and anvil shaped buildings, I would settle for efficient combined use of parking to create open space.

Reminds me of a proposal we did for a campus in Old Town Chicago.  The towers share both above ground and subterranean parking decks to create some nice open space.

 I'd be 100% okay with this.

[TRENCH]

On 3/1/2021 at 11:01 AM, ChiDev said:

I would give up pie in the sky hopes for a Museum lol.  Would be lucky to get a park and a grocery store.   Everyone on here hopes for skyscrapers and anvil shaped buildings, I would settle for efficient combined use of parking to create open space.

Reminds me of a proposal we did for a campus in Old Town Chicago.  The towers share both above ground and subterranean parking decks to create some nice open space.

manifesting something like this omg 

[elefants]

Lots of new signage up looking for office tenants at the Sentinel building.  Loopnet listing up as well.  Wonder how long they plan to keep the Northern Block standing.