This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s downtown “bungalow neighborhoods.” Click HERE to listen to Episode 416 of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 FM, recorded at Ollie’s in College Park.
TOP TEN HEADLINES
- Immerse is this weekend in downtown Orlando and not to miss out on the party, the City of Winter Park is hosting their own weekend of free arts programming on Park Ave.
- After years of being closed to vehicular traffic on the weekends, downtown Orlando has reopened Orange Avenue as it passes through the Downtown Entertainment District.
- Orlando Solar Bears are hosting a Craft Beer Festival on March 8.
- A Sanford sandwich restaurant has relocated to College Park and we’re hearing good things.
- A former Mills 50 yarn shop building could soon be a new cocktail lounge complete with portholes for maximum Mills Avenue people-watching.
- A new Thai seafood restaurant is now open in the North Quarter, just north of downtown Orlando.
- The team at Kelly Park is hiring Parks Service Specialists – that’s the park with the lazy river for tubing.
- “Messi and Inter Miami CF tie Orlando City SC at Raymond James Friday night.” – ABC
- “Restaurant a maybe for construction exec at ex-Walgreens location.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “State Sen. Geraldine Thompson, Orlando teacher who stood up for Black history in Florida, dies.” – Click Orlando
ICYMI – (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)
- “Barbara Chandler moves forward with focus on community.” – The 32789
- “Bonus Episode: Spark STEM Fest at Orlando Science Center.” – Bungalower
- “Bonus Episode: Azela Santana, Orange County Regional History Center.” – Bungalower
- “LIST: 9 Iconic Orlando buildings that don’t exist anymore.” – Bungalower
- “Orlando Game Jam coming to Melrose Center this month.” – Bungalower
- “Orlando Vintage celebrating 30 years of business.” – Bungalower
- “PHOTOS: Magic vs Nuggets.” – Bungalower
- “PHOTOS: USMNT vs. Costa Rica.” – Bungalower
- “State agency says reason for Lake Apopka fish kill remains a mystery.” – Central Florida Public Media
- “City of Orlando considers homeless shelter buses to help get people off the streets.” – Click Orlando
- “Florida man injured after coyotes attacks him and his dog.” – FOX 35
- “Scientists ‘surprised’ to find abundance of alligators in city’s sewer system.” – The Independent
- “Judge approves going out of business plan for Joann Fabrics.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Meet 5 founders shaping Orlando through innovation.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Restaurant worker at Universal Orlando Citywalk files lawsuit over wage theft.” – Orlando Weekly
- “Longtime I-Drive attraction goes on the market.”- WFTV 9
- “House of the Day: Move-in-ready townhome at The Brix at the Packing District asking $719,995.”
- “House of the Day: 3/2.5 Lakefront estate with 1/1 apartment asking $2,495,000.”
- “How Trump put ‘Gulf of America’ on the map.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “What can cities do to protect public spaces from vehicle attacks?” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “Your stolen car is in a shipping container, bound for Africa.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “From plan to place: Providence’s downtown renaissance.”- CNU
- “A fix for America’s infrastructure paralysis.” – Governing
- “Tall Stories 445: Temporary Urbanism.” – Monocle
- “The Urbanist: Cultural City Planning.” – Monocle
HOT EVENTS THIS WEEK
- Monday 2/17: Showgouls – A Night of Open Stage Drag (Mills 50)
- Tuesday 2/18: Dashon Burton – Brick by Brick: Changing America by Song (Winter Park)
- Wednesday 2/19: Florida Travel Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Roadside Florida (Winter Park)
- Wednesday 2/19: Orlando Solar Bears vs. Atlanta Gladiators (Parramore)
- Thursday 2/20: 3rd Thursday at CityArts (Downtown)
- Thursday 2/20: Lineage and Legacy (Downtown)
- Thursday 2/20: Orlando Ballet’s Peter Pan (Downtown)
- Thursday 2/20: Orlando Solar Bears vs. Jacksonville Icemen (Parramore)
- Friday 2/21: Creative City Project presents Immerse (Downtown)
- Friday 2/21: Orlando Magic vs. Memphis Grizzlies (Parramore)
