Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
In the year Pine Castle incorporated, a boat manufacturer founded its original factory here. A century on, Correct Craft is a global marine company — and its founding address is a Pine Castle fact.
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Two miles southeast of Pine Castle, an airfield named for the community trained B-17 crews, tested the X-1, became McCoy Air Force Base — and now lands the world’s flights as Orlando International, code MCO.
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No ranked restaurants sit inside Pine Castle and none are invented here. The community eats along the Orange Avenue and Orange Blossom Trail corridors, and at SoDo’s ranked tables just north — labelled as theirs.
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An 1870 settlement, an elementary school founded in 1877, a railroad by 1882 and a town charter in 1925 that lasted five years: Pine Castle’s first century, and why the community still marks it.
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Settled in 1870, incorporated in 1925, unincorporated again by 1930 — Pine Castle is 11,122 people in south Orange County with a railroad past, a boat factory, an airfield that became MCO, and a name older than Orlando’s fame.
Read MoreBlanchard Park and the greenway for the golden hour, then Waterford Lakes — labelled as the neighbouring hub it is — for dinner and a film. Union Park’s evening, honestly routed.
Read MoreOn the greenway’s route sits the Econ Soccer Complex — the county’s football fields named for the river, and a Saturday institution for Union Park and the whole east side.
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The University of Central Florida sits a few miles northwest — close enough to shape Union Park’s rentals, traffic and horizons, far enough that the community keeps its own, older character. The neighbour, labelled.
Read MoreSR-50 through the middle, the SR-408 minutes south, SR-417 east: Union Park’s commute is a corridor community’s compensation — everything is a straight line from here.
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Blanchard Park in the morning — fields, playgrounds and the YMCA at the gate — the greenway by bike in the afternoon: a family day built entirely from Union Park’s own ground.
Read MoreOrlando Citizen — a name first published in 1897