ORLANDO, Fla. – Despite the coronavirus pandemic, downtown Orlando is seeing a construction boom on residential high-rises and there are more on the drawing board.The City of Orlando told News 6 there were more than 18,000 people already living in the downtown sector and thousands more could be relocating there.“It just invigorates a downtown.
It brings people here 24-7 and 365,” Thomas Chatmon said.[TRENDING: Gov: Vaccine coming to Florida ‘relatively soon’ | CDC: Avoid Thanksgiving travel | Georgia presidential race recount results]As executive director for Orlando’s Downtown Development Board, he said the reason for all of this new residential construction boils down to simple economics.He said the latest reports show 93% of the existing.