Downtown Orlando Project Discussion

[nite owℓ]

I agree.  There's already good synergy down in there.  There new projects will turn it up a notch or two. 

 

I just wish that they had never torn down those old brick houses where Eola Place was supposed to go or near there back in '05 or so.  I hate when they raze the property and then nothing happens. It's probably a ploy to lure a buyer so they can flip the property quickly.

 

I am actually amazed at the amount of residential influx in downtown lately.  I just didn't realize the demand was there that much.

 

I think downtown needs an establishment like East End up there near Baldwin off of Corrine & Winter Park Rd.

 

 

I think a specialty grocery store is being planned for the Lucerne property. That corner has great visibility from the road, easily accessible and plenty of space for parking. Hopefully they don't screw it up like that Ravaudage project in Winter Park.

[Bungalower-MattBroffman]

Love it. What do we so next?

 

Going to run it by some folks and see what the feedback is and any reasons the City might not want to do...i'll keep you posted.

[sunshine]

Exclusive: Health Village in talks for grocery store, pharmacy

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2014/05/exclusive-health-village-in-talks-for-grocery.html

 

[gibby]

Interesting that Winter Park Street will tee into Dade Avenue.  I like it.  Too had there aren't more connections under I-4 in that area, at least pedestrian connections.

[Bungalower-MattBroffman]

Let's use that term "Exclusive" lightly...there aren't any details. We've known for a while that Health Village would like a grocery store...getting one is another story

 

Winter Park road closure was always part of the plan...however the original plan showed that it would turn into a pedestrian only access to Orange Ave....now it ends at a parking garage  

 

We're working on a number of Health Village related posts and hope to have them ready to go soon with some more updates... It's going to be a really cool area once everything gets going.

 

Disclosure I live only three blocks from health village!

[gibby]

Yes, a vacated Winter Park Street would need to be open to pedestrians and not a parking garage.  Good catch.

[Jernigan]

They use exclusive in the same way they use "transit orientated development"

[jrs2]

^^

LOL.  just like Tupperware.

[sunshine]

Florida Hospital Health Village to get hotel, conference center

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2014/05/florida-hospital-health-village-to-get-hotel.html

[brainpathology]

Man I work for the wrong Hospital lol.. we can't seem to get the hotel out of the ground and FH is building a city from scratch basically.  

[Jernigan]

I'm guessing the hotel on Columbia gets done first. Now, the Hotel ORMC over Docs...that seems to be much more complicated.

[ThePowerCity]

http://blogs.orlandoweekly.com/bloggytown/will-orlando-soon-home-monorail/

[CalvinEggnog]

It would be very cool to see a monorail in Orlando connecting the airport to the convention center and making stops along i-Drive.  I personally LOVE the Disney World monorails and one of my wishes is that they'd connect Hollywood Studios via monorail.  It's clean, quiet, and I just think elevated trains like that look futuristic.  Plus, they don't clog up existing streets or cause problems with pedestrian crossings.  The cost of something like this would seem exorbitant and I don't really see it happening.  But I'll hold my breath nonetheless. 

[jgardnerucf]

They say, 'ol Lyle Lanley is the man!  Ghee heck, if 'ol Springfield can get one; Orlando can!

[FLClarkKent]

They say, 'ol Lyle Lanley is the man!  Ghee heck, if 'ol Springfield can get one; Orlando can!

 

I've heard they've got monorails in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!

[brainpathology]

If you really want to be put on the map you need to bribe the cartographers.  

[RedStar25]

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

[Jernigan]

Can anyone expand on what the "Magnolia Avenue Streetscape" project entails?

It is mentioned in the April 17 ARB minutes under the DPAC as well as in the May ARB agenda under the Magnolia Dental Center agenda item.

Led me to a google search which turned up more mentions including a narrowing but no renderings or vision statements. Any insights?

[RedStar25]

Landscaping and repaving the part of Magnolia that's currently closed? 

[Jernigan]

Latest update on The Sevens is an August groundbreaking per The Sentinel

[sunshine]

With the Sevens, Cresent, Jefferson partment project, Nora...abou to be built and under construction, they all share the same design with garage/courtyard in the center with residents wrapped around it.

 

I stole this page from Gainesville downtown development board...

 

 

Wouldnt you think it would be better if they can break the building off into many smaller and taller buildings? That seems to be the "smart growth" approach, not to mention we can have more public space.

[jack]

I don't think that works downtowns. Maybe a 2-3 story building, but not 6-10 story buildings. I would need the designer to walk me through it but it looks as if parking is on stand alone garages. If that is the case, it would be a lot more expensive to do it that way and inefficient. 

 

The plans look like it would work in a Baldwin Park setting where you have surface parking. 

[sunshine]

Just for example, instead of building a steel house or seven, built the city hall complex with the city hall and two cnl buildings. Instead of building Jefferson apartment, build 3 Jackson with ground floor retails or 2 eola place 101. It achieved the same density with less footprint

[Jernigan]

Citi Tower had its 2nd hearing yesterday at Council. I think it needs 1 more?

Could you imagine all of the good and bad of both of these guys going vertical at the same time?!

Sunshine - think of all of the 7-11s we might see in S Eola!

[steve_o]

Citi Tower had its 2nd hearing yesterday at Council. I think it needs 1 more?

Could you imagine all of the good and bad of both of these guys going vertical at the same time?!

Sunshine - think of all of the 7-11s we might see in S Eola!

Simple answer - cost

 

 

Citi Tower had its 2nd hearing yesterday at Council. I think it needs 1 more?

Could you imagine all of the good and bad of both of these guys going vertical at the same time?!

Sunshine - think of all of the 7-11s we might see in S Eola!

Though they will not have retail, don't forget about the Thornton Park Brownstones!  Construction will begin late summer.  Demo of existing structures will happen mid June.