Downtown Orlando will host the 9th Annual Florida Music Festival and Conference this Wednesday, April 21st to Saturday, April 24th. The four-day event was named “Top Music Festivals” by SPIN Magazine, while promoters of the event affectionately call it “The Biggest Music Bar Crawl in the Southeast”.
The festival will showcase 50 bands at fifteen different [...]
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The Florida Music Festival Coming to Downtown Orlando
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Sidewalk Art Festival hits the Streets of Central Florida
Thursday, March 18th, 2010This weekend, Orlando’s neighbor Winter Park is hosting the Sidewalk Art Festival, chock full of paintings, drawings, sculptures and more. 300,000 visitors are estimated to be in ateendance for the city’s biggest annual event.
Over 200 artists’ works will be displayed in Central Park, where a variety of musical artists will be performing for crowds as [...]
Downtown Orlando Small Businesses to Benefit from “Entrepreneur Zone”
Thursday, March 11th, 2010In light of the weakened economy’s layoffs creating empty office spaces, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is heading a movement to create a boon for small independent businesses in the downtown Orlando office buildings.
“Entrepreneur Zone” is a new program Dyer and Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty debuted, with an aim to fill in vacant office space from downsized businesses.
Connecting [...]
Downtown Orlando & Eola Park to Host Florida Film Festival
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010This year is the 19th annual Florida Film Festival, and in addition to the Regal Winter Park Village 20 theatre and Enzian theatre, this year the event will include screenings in a number of locations throughout downtown Orlando.
Making the Festival a broader city-wide event, these other venues include a selection of well-known downtown locales such as [...]
Downtown Orlando: New Jobs Opening with High Speed Railway Projects
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Great news for thet downtown Orlando economy and job market. Thousands of jobs are expected to open up with the construction of the high-speed railroad that will be spanning central Florida.
Steve Olson, spokesman for Florida’s Department of Transportation, noted that many job inquiries have been made and many in need of work are in support of [...]