An up & coming neighborhood: Orlando's Mills 50

[Metro Jacksonville]

An up & coming neighborhood: Orlando's Mills 50



Located just northeast of Downtown Orlando, Mills 50 was recently recognized as one of the top 12 neighborhoods across America about to get crazy popular.

Read More: https://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2018-mar-an-up-coming-neighborhood-orlandos-mills-50-

[ProjectMaximus]

My favorite part of Orlando! I've always called it Colonialtown lol. What are the plans through the Main Streets program?

[thelakelander]

Yes, much of the neighborhood surrounding the commercial strip is Colonialtown. Mills 50 is what they're calling the commercial strip these days. Here's a list of accomplishments they achieved in 2016:

http://www.cityoforlando.net/business-development/mills-50-2016/

Since they're FDOT streets, their hands are pretty tied, but that area would look completely different and be much safer for pedestrians if they had medians, mid-block crossings, and bulb-outs at intersection corners.

[ProjectMaximus]

Thanks. Yeah I saw that on their website. Seems to be mostly marketing accomplishments.

The typical multi-modal streetscape makeover would be awesome.