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Transcript of Episode 14:

The CitiTower apartment building in Thornton Park has 6,916± sq ft of combined ground floor space  for lease. It can be divided into three separate spaces or kept as one. All 3 spaces are on the first floor. CitiTower has 25 stories and 233 apartments.

And speaking of CitiTower, The Healthy Scratch is occupying is a 2,400 sq ft. space on the same floor. The Healthy Scratch is a restaurant that serving acai bowls, smoothies, cold pressed juices and gourmet toasts, overnight oats, yogurts and other healthy grab-and-go food options.

A new 2018 agreement between the City of Orlando and Orlando Economic Partnership was approved by City Council. The partnership is an independent contractor. OEP will not be acting as the alter ego of the City and is not authorized to commit the City or its funds to any agreement.

Check this: Documents and records kept by the Partnership are not intended to be subject to the Florida Public Records Law except when it acts on behalf of the City. So you ain’t seeing those documents, boo!

The new agreement gives the partnership $590,000 from the City. The City’s payment is an extra $100,000 above the $1.82 per capita fair share which is $494,000 and  based upon the city’s current year’s population $75,000 of the City’s agreed upon payment will be allocated for “to be determined” special economic development projects and initiatives that benefit the City of Orlando and $25,000 will be allocated to support the work of the Foundation for Building Community.

If you want to know what the Orlando Economic Partnership actually does, we have the full list up on the website, thedailycity.com.

Church Street Plaza in downtown Orlando at 255 S. Garland Avenue is a 25 or 6 or 28  story (depending on which news source you choose to believe) mixed use development coming to the corner of W. South Street and S. Garland Avenue. In October 2017 the project name was changed from Tremont Tower to Church Street Plaza after Lincoln Properties purchased the subject property.

The building will include

1. A Sunrail station

2. A 180 room AC Hotel by Marriott on 6 floors plus a sky lobby that houses check-in and hotel amenity functions on two floors. A hotel lobby on the ground floor will provide direct access up to the check-in level.

3. A 2 story exterior terrace on the 18th and 19th floors.

4. A Restaurant with outdoor dining on the ground floor

5. 7,000 sq ft of Retail space

6. 200,000 +/ square feet of office space on 7 floors

7. 605 parking spaces on 9 floors

8. A eparate office building lobby allowing pedestrian access during business hours.

I don’t care about this other than what restaurants will be coming and how will the sunrail interact with the building and (I know the answer to this question) will the moving of this station from its current site increase traffic? Nope! Sunrail is a hot mess of unused empty cars unless its game day at the Parramore-destroying soccer stadium or the Winter Park art festival is going on. Mess.

Cedarwood Development plans on demolishing a set of three concrete cinder block warehouses in the SODO District built in 1940 and one built in 1957 to make way for a new six-story self-storage facility at 924 Sligh Blvd. Self storage is all the rage right now thanks to a new law passed by City COuncil this fall essentially opening the floodgates to new self storage development, much like that brwery law that’s spawned our city’s wave of brewery openings. Not one isn’t owned by a white male.

The materials used in the construction of these 1940s and 1957 warehouses are described as Inexpensive and Minimal by the Orange County Property Appraiser. The property is almost 1 acre.

LAM Civil Engineering wants to convert the building existing car dealership at the corner of Colonial and OBT into a multi-tenant office building. The building is a former Pontiac dealership that was in business from the early 1960s to 2010. The property used to have a large distinct neon sign for decades. It’s hidden safe within the neon storage room off limits to the public at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. According to Roadside Peek, the well-known-to-longtime-locals neon Pontiac sign is one of the last remaining working signs that still display the original Pontiac logo.

The current tenant, Ultimate Auto Boutique, is anticipated to relocate Spring 2018. Phase 1 changes will include re-striping the existing concrete parking lot and adding landscaping. Congrats! Phase 2 will include the following ridiculousness: as new tenants occupy a space inside the building, that tenant will construct the buildout as required. So the redevelopment of this building will be a complete piecemeal effort guided by no overarching design or plan. I hate this.