"Since COVID-19, the foot traffic is very, very slow," business owner Yehya Rizeq said of Church Street in downtown Orlando. "It’s not recovered yet." A new project breaking ground hopes to change that, but Rizeq worries they can't survive much longer.
The Church Street Festival Project is a multi-phase redesign aimed at transforming a historic downtown stretch into a pedestrian-friendly, festival-style corridor while maintaining vehicle access.
Orlando police say a fight overnight near Church Street and Orange Avenue ended with an accidental gunshot, sending a woman to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Orlando city commissioners are poised to approve the second phase of a project that will transform Church Street into a "festival street."
This week, News 6 reported on the “The Canopy” project under I-4 that the city is pushing forward with give people a place to hang out downtown. On Tuesday, the city is launching another phase of its downtown action plan focused on Magnolia Avenue.
A 35-year-old Apopka man was arrested after Florida troopers said he fled a traffic stop in downtown Orlando and was later found with nearly 200 pounds of marijuana inside a rented box truck.
Downtown Orlando’s traditional Orange Ball Drop on New Year’s Eve will happen in the Thornton Park neighborhood district.
Orlando police and Orange County deputies will be keeping a closer eye on certain roads during Florida Classic weekend.
On the heels of the Orlando Magic’s game three play-off win, former players Bo Outlaw and Nick Anderson hosted a Magic Youth Basketball Academy at the Boys and Girls Club in Parramore.
Crews will begin dismantling this week a scaffolding at a construction site in downtown Orlando that has threatened to collapse.
A moderate portion of downtown Orlando remained shut down on Monday as “unstable” construction scaffolding continues to threaten collapse.
Two officers were injured and a driver is in critical condition Tuesday after a crash on I-95 southbound near the Church Street exit, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told News 6 partner WJXT-TV.
Short stretches of Church Street and Central Boulevard near Exploria Stadium in downtown Orlando will be closed Sunday as the Orlando City Lions take on the New York Red Bulls.
Just blocks away from downtown Orlando, Henry Sadler founded the Sadler Hotel, which welcomed many African American celebrities of the 1960s and 70s.
Safety is key for so many restaurant and bar owners ahead of their New Year’s Eve festivities amid the latest omicron surge.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – City officials announced they will allow open containers in some high traffic areas on Saturday. “I didn’t think there was going to be an event until next year, to be honest with you,” Green said. “You have to be alert, you have to assume that everyone has the virus,” Dr. Pino said. During a news conference, Mayor Jerry Demings said Orlando police and the city have partnered to ensure the safety of bar owners and patrons. Mayor Demings said ambassadors will be downtown and in communication with bar, owners to ensure they are following best practices.
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It’s going to snow in Orlando. Downtown Orlando’s Church Street is hosting “30 Days of Christmas” and transforming the street into a winter wonderland every night in December. Snow will fall along with a music and light show nightly at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. There will also be free horse and carriage rides Thursdays and Fridays from 6-10 p.m. Could it feel anymore like Christmas? And if you’re celebrating New Year’s Even downtown on Church Street, you can pop champagne under the snow flurry.
