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The Daily City – #55 – Week of Sept 24

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: Millennials love Baldwin Park, Bar Louie is coming to Winter Park, this and more on The Daily City

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.Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #53 – Welcome to Joyland

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: A large food hall is coming to Central Florida inside a development called Magic Place according to Orlando Weekly. The food hall will contain 30,000 sq ft of food and seating, feature 20 non-chain restaurants, will be called Gourmet Market, and will be located at 5500 U.S. 192 in Kissimmee, a 27 minute drive from downtown Orlando. This is only one of the many food hall projects in the works for Central Florida. Maitland City Center’s food hall-hybrid is built and awaiting tenants. Downtown Sanford’s Henry’s Depot will take shape inside a 1940s train depot. A small food hall inside the Creative Village is coming from downtown developer Craig Ustler. An outdoor food hall made from shipping containers is coming to Lake Nona. And, Oviedo Food Factory, opening late 2019, will feature a micro-restaurant row overlooking Oviedo on the Park’s main street.Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #52 – CineMark Baratelli

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: The City of Orlando Police Department has been given $54,792 to pay for officer overtime to conduct high visibility enforcement campaigns in conjunction with other education efforts to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety within the city. The funds come from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), through a Task Work Order with the University of North Florida. This is part of the Mayors Consent Agenda which goes before City Council for approval Monday August 20th.

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.”Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #49 – Fantastic Worlds and Where to Find Them

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PFT Media Podcast NetworkTRANSCRIPT: Publix is now hanging signs in their stores that explain briefly their service animal policy. The policy isn’t new or different. It’s always been in place. Now they’re just alerting the public through appropriate signage. The service animal signs say, “For food safety reasons, only service animals that are specifically trained to aid a person with disabilities are permitted within the store,” the signs say. “Service animals are not permitted to sit or ride in shopping carts. Thank you for your help!”

Universal Orlando may be opening a 4th theme park in Orlando called Fantastic Worlds according to their patent application for that name with the attached purpose of “entertainment services in the nature of amusement park and theme park services.”Continue Reading …