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Originally Posted by Cirrus
So you'll quibble over the semantic issue but won't engage in a meaningful discussion about the primary one?
I am talking about the central business district, not the residential neighborhoods that surround it. If people in Orlando think of the term "downtown" as including adjacent neighborhoods, pretend I used a different term. I mean to discuss the area zoned red on this map. Not purple or yellow, only red. Period. End of story. Use whatever term satisfies you to define that geography.
Now, within that geography, it looks to my professionally trained eye that not much was going on 20 years ago. If that impression is mistaken, please feel free to describe how it was wrong and correct it. I am not above being better informed in this manner.
But for goodness sake, arguing that I'm wrong about the central business district because there's a nice neighborhood next to it is not convincing.
And by the way, downtown Washington was an overgrown office park in the early 80s too. |
Having not been to Orlando 20 years ago, I personally couldn't say, but I definitely see how you could think that. Based on what I saw, I could easily ascertain that DT Orlando 20 years ago probably looked alot like DT Phoenix (a bunch of office towers and lots more parking lots). However, it does seem that there's a decent stock of older buildings that at least give DT Orlando a couple of nice urban streetwalls (particularly Magnolia, Orange & Church Streets).