Orlando resident Grace Harkins made a wish to be an actress with the folks a the Make-A-WishFoundation (Website), and some local filmmakers helped to make that wish come true. The foundation connected with local filmmaker Robin Hofmann, of Hoffy’s Heart Productions (Website), who wrote a script and assembled a team of over 60 people on […]
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Posted inArt and Culture, Events, Out Of Bounds, Video
Enzian hosting 23rd Annual Florida Jewish Film Festival
Enzian Theater will be host to the 23rd Annual Central Florida Jewish Film Festival from November 13-16 this year at their Maitland campus. The event, which is co-presented with The Roth Family Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando, will feature six feature films and two shorts, with award-winning selections from five countries, screened in English, […]
Posted inColonialtown, Coming and Going, Featured, Food & Drink, Photos
New Jewish deli opening in Colonialtown
EDIT: We originally stated that Deli Desires was moving into the former home of Sanctum Cafe. That is incorrect, they are in fact opening in the same building, but in a different storefront. Also, the matzah ball soup will not be part of the early menu and will be added at a later date. A […]
Posted inCool Job Alert, Out Of Bounds
Cool Job Alert: Wish Coordinator at Make-A-Wish Foundation
Make-A-Wish Foundation is hiring a Wish Coordinator for Central and Northern Florida. Wish Coordinators are responsible for granting wishes involving travel, meeting celebrities, receiving gifts, or fulfilling a desire to be something other than what they are at that moment like a doctor, a princess, or Batman. They handle all aspects of granting that child’s […]
Posted inArt and Culture, Downtown, Parks, Quality of Life
City Hall leasing downtown corner lot for pop-up park space
Orlando City Council voted to approve the lease of a vacant parcel at the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street at 30 S. Orange Avenue [GMap] during the October 9, 2023, Council Meeting, in order to carry out a series of improvements to transform the space into a new urban pocket park. Despite being […]
Posted inBuildings, Featured, Milk District, News, Real Estate
Iconic “Hoods Up” building is hitting the market this week
Milk District’s other iconic building, not T.G. Lee, is hitting the market this week. The infamous “Hoods Up” property at 2400 E. Robinson Street [GMap] has been sitting vacant for years at the corner of Robinson Street and Bumby Avenue, roped off from the world by a small chain, leaving most residents wondering what would […]
Posted inBuildings, Crane Watch, Thornton Park
Ask Bungalower: What’s happening at this vacant lot in Thornton Park?
“Hey, Brendan and team, have you seen what’s happening at that vacant lot in Thornton Park? The one by the laundromat? It looks like something’s going to be built there. Do you know what it is?” – BUNGALOWER READER An empty lot at 811 E. Washington Street [GMap] in Thornton Park is indeed being prepped […]
Posted inComing and Going, Downtown, Food & Drink
New restaurant signs lease for City Hall cafe space
A long-vacant restaurant space on the ground floor of Orlando City Hall has finally signed a new tenant. The former home of 4 Rivers Smokehouse, which we most recently wrote about HERE in a previous “I Wish This Was” column, will now be home to a new concept by AJ Campofiore, the owner of Portuguese/Mexican […]
Posted inEvents, Featured, News, Orlando, Ten Things
TOP TEN THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK
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 317 of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1, which was recorded at the newly opened Park Avenue Tavern (Website) in Winter Park’s Hannibal Square along with the boys from Ben Laube Homes […]
Posted inBuildings, Quality of Life, Real Estate, South Eola
Womp-Womp: Empty lot by Lake Eola could get a drive-thru ATM
A longtime vacant parcel of property sandwiched between The Waverly and Capital Plaza II at 301 E. Pine Street [GMap] in downtown Orlando could soon be home to a drive-thru bank. The property, which we asked our friends at Interstruct Inc. to reimagine into something that benefitted the public realm in a previous I Wish […]
Posted inComing and Going, Downtown, Featured, Food & Drink, Video
VIDEO: New lamp-filled drinking venue opening downtown
The folks at Team Market Group (Website) have just launched yet another concept in downtown Orlando. Ann Teague’s Lamp Supply (Instagram | Website) is a new lamp shade-inspired bar located at 22 S. Magnolia Avenue [GMap] that has been absolutely filled with antique lamps and random ephemera. It will serve the craft cocktails that other […]
Posted inArchitecture and Design, Buildings, Cool Job Alert, Orlando
Cool Job Alert: Project Manager at Interstruct Design Build
Our friends at Interstruct are hiring. The design/build general contractor is based in Orlando with offices in Tampa, Austin, and Orlando, and specializes in healthcare and large commercial projects. They also have contributed to our once-in-a-blue-moon I Wish This Was column which you can read HERE. The Project Manager acts as the direct contact for […]
Posted inArchitecture and Design, Art and Culture, Buildings, Hourglass, People, Quality of Life, Real Estate
Architect paints murals on home that County “won’t let him work on”
You may be familiar with local architect Ryan Young from previous I Wish This Was … columns that he’s done with us. Young is an architect and founder of leading design and construction group Interstruct Inc, which is responsible for projects like the new Milk District warehouse and many buildings in the Hourglass District. One of the recent […]
Posted inApartments, Architecture and Design, Buildings, Coming and Going, Real Estate, Thornton Park
Three-story mixed-use building proposed for empty lot in Thornton Park
A representative of an entity called Veneto Builder, LLC has filed an application to build a two-unit, three-story mixed-use building on the empty lot at 811 E. Washington Street in Thornton Park [GMap], across the street from Dexter’s. The 62.5 x 100 foot property has been vacant for years and was the subject of one […]
Posted inAudubon Park, Civics and Participation, From the Forums, Garden, Guest Column, Parks, Petition, Quality of Life, Retail, Roads
Guest Column: Corrine Drive Study Update
We’ve been following the Corrine situation since 2015 when we wished for a “Calmer Corrine” in our I Wish This Was … column. Since then, MetroPlan Orlando has launched a Complete Streets project that could reshape the contentious corridor into something more befitting a nationally recognized, award-winning Main Street district. The following is an update on the […]