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TRANSCRIPT: An Oprah Winfrey Network tv show called David Makes Man is currently filming in Orlando. The show is an hour long drama set to premiere in 2019 and written by the co-writer of the film Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney.

September 11-14 the show will be filming at Carol’s Diner at 3421 S. Orange Ave. in the SODO district. The restaurant will be closed during filming and will reopen September 15th.

For the filming, Carol’s is getting a makeover  inside with a new lunch counter and will play the role of the restaurant at which the main character’s mother works. The name of the restaurant in the show will be Carol’s Truck Stop.

The Orlando Economic Partnership’s Orlando Film Commission worked to get this project to Orlando. Universal Studios Florida Production Group is providing newly renovated production office spaces, state-of-the-art sound stages, staff and  resources to the project.

A limited edition, individually numbered poster celebrating “the zeal, quirk, promise, and diversity of our City Beautiful” will be released September 20th (4 days after Orlando Flea!) from Prismatic, the company behind the complete reimagining of the Downtown Information Center and the potential shop-ification of the City of Orlando’s website.The poster will be called Orlantone (Instagram | Website), a play on the Pantone Matching System (PMS) used to create Pantone Guides. These guides define colors by giving each one a number. They’re used by graphic designers, printers, paint manufacturers and more to use and match colors.The poster will feature colors named after objects and experiences one can find in Orlando. According to the website, “Each color has been carefully chosen to represent the vibrant array of pop culture and localphile gems that help tell the story of Orlando.

We told you in May that a game changing outdoor food hall shaped like a park named Boxi Park is coming to Lake Nona Town Center just south of SR 417 on the northwest corner of Lake Nona Boulevard and Tavistock Lakes Boulevard. More details and a rendering have been released about the project. Charles B. Lewis, Senior Managing Director of Tavistock Group (the company that created Lake Nona and will be creating Boxi Park) said, “We’re… evolving the concept of food halls to create a destination-worthy attraction.” Opening December 2018, the 30,000-square-foot, family- and dog-friendly open-air entertainment destination will be built using 12 shipping containers arranged in one- and two-story configurations and feature restaurants, bars, a live music stage, shaded seating, a playground, a fenced dog park, and beach volleyball courts. Boxi Park will be Central Florida’s very first outdoor food hall and first outdoor entertainment venue built with repurposed shipping containers. Boxi Park will include a varying roster of curated food and beverage options created by Tavistock Restaurant Collection along with two full-service bars serving a selection of cocktails, wine and beer garden featuring its own craft beer line.  

Tuesday a two story home in Baldwin Park was partially sliced in half from the tip of the pitched roof to the top of the second floor. No one was home at the time of the incident and no one was injured. According to Click Orlando, a crane owned by the company Beyel toppled over causing the gash. This is the second time one of its cranes toppled over since last year.

This may remind Daily City readers of the Capen House saga back in 2013.

Built in 1885 by one of Winter Park’s founding citizens, the Capen House was placed on the city’s historic register in 2011. A year later, the home went into foreclosure. The holder of the mortgage, SunTrust, got the City of Winter Park to remove the home’s historic designation so the property could be sold to someone who wished to tear it down and built a new house in its place.

It was announced in May, 2013 that the house would be torn down to make way for a new lakeside mansion.  The announcement of the possibility of the house being destroyed caused a major local uproar. The house was offered for free to anyone who would move it. The new owner even offered up $10,000 of his own money to help with the move.  

The deadline to move the house came and went without anyone coming forward to save the house.  The Winter Park City Council could do little to save the house, even though it revised the historic preservation ordinance, modeled on a City of Gainesville ordinance. The Capen House owners agreed to extend their deadline at the pleading of the community.

That extension allowed for a unique proposal to save the house: the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens has agreed to move the house to their gardens. There is a link between the museum and the historic home.  The Capens and a Polaseks were friends. The museum currently owns sculptures of Capen descendants, created by Polasek.

To transplant the home to the museum grounds, the house was sliced into two parts, then floated via barge (a pretty common practice in Florida when moving historic buildings) across the lake. It would then be reassembled.   

The 6,0000 sq ft home now sits on the shoreline of Lake Osceola in the large lawn area in the midst of the museum gardens behind Polasek’s home. The house is a public events and educational office space for the museum, allowing for lectures, tours, and more art demonstration space.