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TRANSCRIPT: Orlando Flea is coming September 16th to downtown at Celine Orlando. There will be live music, local eats, full bar and of course a large curated group of local and regional vendors flooding your sense with creativity. Follow the event on instagram for updates at the orlando flea.

The @citybeautiful is going to SHAKE UP the old downtown Information center with the help of the local creative company at Prismatic. The redesigned center will feature a retail shop with locally made goods, a circular information desk, digital walls, large murals by the formally local and internationally known artist Boy Kong and more. The space will expand from 1,950 sq. ft. to 3,800 sq. ft. During construction the Info Center will operate a new temporary location starting Tuesday, July 10 at the CityArts Factory at the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street Tuesdays-Fridays from 11 a.m.-5pm.

The Mayors Consent Agenda going before City Council June 25th contains four purchase requests for a total of 123 vehicles with a total cost of $3,398,379. According to City documents, the purpose of the purchase of these vehicles is to supplement the current City Fleet, and support the operational functions of various City Divisions.

The following vehicles are to be purchased:

• 44 Ford F-Series Trucks

• 28 Toyota Camry Hybrids

• 19 Ford Police Interceptors

• 10 Ford Explorers

• 8 Ford Escapes

• 6 Ford Transit Cargo Vans

• 5 Ford F-150s

• 3 Chevrolet Colorado Trucks

As we reported in January, the new food truck park “À La Cart Street Food and Craft Beer” is coming to to 615 Irvington Avenue in The Milk District. The culinary and craft beer hub just announced it will open in July. They also announced their truck lineup which will be serving up Poke Bowls and Burgers, Vietnamese and Korean fusion dishes, Brazilian meat skewers, Swedish meatballs and burgers and 45 varieties of Brazilian empanadas. hThe venue will feature an open-air pavilion with seating for 61 guests along with 15 taps from artisan breweries and an outdoor courtyard with lawn games. À La Cart Street Food and Craft Beer will be open seven days a week 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday – Saturday.

The Developer of a hotel project in SODO has submitted an application for review and approval as a designated Transit Oriented Development (TOD). The project consists of a 6-story, 110-room hotel called TownPlace Suites by Marriott on 2.13 acres at 51 Columbia Street in SODO. If approved as a Transit Oriented Development, the developer will receive a 25% reduction in Transportation Impact Fees because it meets or exceeds city code for pedestrian facilities and bike facilities. The total reduction will be $92,000. The developer could have received an additional 25% reduction had the hotel project (1) been composed of a mixture of land uses, including residential, with the ground floor consisting of primarily active uses and (2) agreed to fund or subsidize transit ridership for employees and residents. City staff support the reduction. It goes before City Council for approval June 25th.

Ivanhoe Park Brewing Company has released its soft opening hours for its new location at 1300 Alden Road in Ivanhoe Village. Starting July 2nd hours it’ll be open Thursday 4-10pm, Friday 4-10pm, Saturday 12-8pm, and Sunday 12-8pm. Ivanhoe Park Brewing Company is an independent craft beer maker.

In fiscal year 2017 – 2018, Florida Hospital received $18,421,896 and ORMC received $10,753,953  to cover the costs of providing healthcare for the indigent and uninsured. Florida Hospital and ORMC wanted, and is now going to get, even more. On June 11, Orlando City Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution  which would allowing the State to pay ORMC and Florida Hospital and Nemours a much higher percentage of their uncompensated charity care costs to maintain and even expand their charity care programs. That money comes from the State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Medicaid Program Finance Low Income Pool (LIP) program. LIP was to have ended June 2017 according to the Obama administration because the Medicaid expansion that was coming would have covered what LIP had been covering since 2006. That expansion never came. In 2017 Governor Scott and the Trump administration said the LIP program would continue.

The plaza area between the north and south tower of the Zora Neale Hurston State of Florida Regional Service Center at 400 W. Robinson Street will be renovated. The existing plaza is a series of large, paved, tiered spaces at different elevations with step transitions that impede fluid movement around the plaza. There are also several large planter areas surrounded by seat walls between the plaza terraces that also restrict movement around the plaza. The redevelopment plans greatly reduce the amount of pavement area in favor of landscape and open lawns. The existing terraced areas have also been greatly reduced providing smoother unrestricted flow through the plaza because of less vertical impediments. New furniture, lighting and pergolas are also identified in the plaza redevelopment plans. The north and south towers of the Zora Neale Hurston State of Florida Regional Service Center were completed in 1977 and 1987. The plaza area that connects the two buildings was begun and completed in the same time period.