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Originally Posted by viewguysf
The project @ 10th & Mission <<< Still a parking lot on the south end and a hole in the ground on Market street, looking exactly the same.
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Thanks for the effort but I think you're describing the 10th & MARKET project, which I figured was dormant. What I was wondering about was 10th & Mission--across 10th on a lot that doesn't go through to Market.
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Originally Posted by viewguysf
Being quite familiar with Florida, I have to say that Orlando has a really cool downtown, small scale but much nice modern and older architecture; it's also very lively at night and a lot of fun. Jacksonville is rather dead downtown, but it has some great older architecture that has been preserved, including a beautiful movie palace. It's also very clean and pretty in a number of spots, especially along the Saint Johns River. Tampa has come a long way. It too has interesting architecture, a restored movie palace, Ybor City with it's night life, the University of Tampa and both the Hillsborough River and Tampa Bay. None of these compare to a San Francisco, Chicago, etc., but they beat the hell out of downtown Miami.
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I lived in FL for 10 years (Winter Park) and partied in "downtown" Orlando and occasionally in Ybor City. I also worked at Duval County Hospital briefly in downtown JAX. I'm sure downtown Orlando, in particular, is better than it was (although I'm told Lake Eola is now homeless heaven)--it has highrises now at least--but all those places for many square miles are surrounded by sprawl and strip malls. You can drive from where my Mom lives in Ormond Beach to Tampa on I-4 and hardly be out of site of sprawl these days. I keep having random obsessive thoughts of taking advantage of the real estate slump to buy something near the family but if I did I'd try to find something out of the way of the I-95/I-4 axis--maybe around Palatka or Bunnel or somewhere north of Daytona, east of Gainesville. That area still seems most like the Florida I enjoy.
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