Singer John Legend is coming to Orlando for a “Get Out the Vote” kickoff event. Guests will enjoy free Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, music. He will speak to the crowd about Amendment 4 which, if voted in, will restore the right to vote to 1.5 million felons who completed their sentences. Legend will be in Orlando Wednesday October 3rd, 3:30-6:30 at Evans High School according to Orlando Weekly. 

Quarterwear.org is a locally owned online clothing company, created a job board for job seekers looking for jobs in the non-profit sector. Quarterwear says its clothing company impacts 25 lives through the charity Feeding Children Everywhere with every sale.

Another Foxtail College Park in the former Hubbly Bubbly. One’s about to open on Lee Road we told you about on the blog.

A shop called @saorboutique is opening this Fall in downtown Baldwin Park at 4825 New Broad Street according to signs posted in the shop’s windows. One sign says the business will be “bringing family fashion to a whole new level.”

Whole Foods is now delivering groceries in one hour to Amazon Prime customers.

Thanks to @lemonhearted and @nakedbarsoapco, Orlando has the FANTASTIC new @chrisuphues and @jenkoehl mural on the side of Infusion Tea in College Park. It was a year-long process they went through that you can read all about on Lemonhearted.com.

We told you awhile back that the folks behind Domu in East End Market were opening a restaurant in Mills50 called Tori Tori. Well, the City of Orlando is giving the restaurant $50,000 through its Small Business Facade, Site Improvement, and Adaptive Reuse Program to go towards improvements including adding a front porch dining area facing Mills. Domu is a busy company. Along with keeping Domu running and opening Tori Tori, they’re also working on opening a quick serve restaurant Domu Chibi Ramen in the Waterford Lakes Town Center.

Winter Park Village is getting a new restaurant tenant inside inside the old Mitchell’s seafood space: Bar Louie. The expected opening time frame is early 2019.

Two of the top five zip codes millenials are moving to in Florida are located right here in Orlando according to RentCafe.com. One is 32821 which includes I-Drive, Millenia, and the theme park area. The other one is 32814 which is Baldwin Park. The site used data from the US Census Bureau to create this list.

Wallet Hub says that according to a study, Orlando ranked second on a list of 182 cities for “Most Fun City” in America. Number one was las vegas.

An almost 100 year old bodega called Handy Pantry is closing its doors for good this year. It’s located in the Lake Eola Heights district at 522 E. Amelia Street. Since the building is located within a historic district, it’s protected from demolition.

Rob and Joe Nunzaita put out a survey asking folks what the two developers should do with the downtown building they just purchased on Church Street for $3.97 million. How great! Developers asking the public what they want in their city! Rob and Joe are the folks who brought a beautiful historic building at the corner of Church and Orange and… put a walgreens inside. The building they want your feedback on  is on Church Street and was most recently Ferg’s Depot. The tenant options on this survey found at makeorlandogreat.com (PAUSE) include extremely ambitious brands like Apple, Amazon, Cheesecake Factory, Chik Fil A, Chipotle. There is one non-branded option on the survey called “Chelsea Market Concept.” Well you know that’s what The Daily City would vote for!

The Daily City would like to thank the hundreds, and hundreds and hundreds of people who came out to the inaugural Orlando Flea. We put together this indoor makers marker with 38 vendors, a dessert court, dranks and music on September 16th in downtown Orlando. This event is about bringing attention to local companies and communicating to visitors that the city we live in is creative. Local shoppers got introduced to brands they’d never heard of as well as meet the owners of the products they already know and love. Vendors sold out of t shirts and jewelyy, the food vendors sold out of gelato and cookies, and attendees gave us some very helpful feedback on what The Daily City can do to make the next Orlando Flea even better. Based on that feedback, we will be taking over multiple venues, expnding the space for guests to walk and view merchandise and hang out, as well as provide more space to house more vendors. The Daily City would like to thank our fans and newly made friends for making Orlando Flea the huge success that it was. Please follow orlando flea on instagram at simply… orlando flea.

The movie theatre at Universal Citywalk will transition from AMC to Cinemark with a grand opening set for September 15th. Moviegoers can expect “Cinemark Luxury Lounger” seats, and one new Cinemark XD auditorium which will bring “expansive wall-to-wall screens, custom-engineered surround sound with multichannel speakers and state-of-the-art projection systems capable of delivering 35 trillion colors.”

The new PDQ in Winter Park at 925 S. Orlando Avenue held its grand opening Sunday. The Tampa-based chain serves chicken tenders, sandwiches, salads and milkshakes. This new location is a block away from the Winter Park location of Chik Fil A.

The antennae at the Rollins college radio station WPRK has finally been repaired and is back up after getting knocked down September 8th of last year during Hurricane Irma. The only way listeners could get the station’s shows and music since then was via online streaming.

Jinya Ramen bar opened in Thornton Park at 8 North Summerlin Avenue next door to Starbucks. Construction began December of last year. The reason for its elongated construction period was the detailed interior design the chain chose. The space formerly housed Verde and before that, Tijuana Flats.

Jimmy Hulas opened downtown at 68 E. Pine Street. Along with selling tacos and beer, it will serve local brands Foxtail Coffee and Valkeryie Donuts.

The free-standing retail building located at the corner of Colonial Drive and Hampton Avenue at 2000 East Colonial Drive in Mills50 is for sale for $1.7 million dollars. The building has 7,446 sq ft, 20 parking spaces and was built in 1957. The parking is divided with a portion in the front and a portion in the back.

The 2014 contract the City has with Dr. Philips Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. for its  management of the Bob Carr Theatre is set to expire on August 31st. A new agreement will extend the term for an additional year.

By 2020 the Florida legal medical marijuana industry is expected to generate $456 million dollars in sales according to ArcView Market Research and BDS Analytics. In five years the industry is expected to create 25,000 jobs.