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.
From Alafaya Trail to Forsyth Road, through Blanchard Park: the Little Econ Greenway is Union Park’s linear park, its commute for cyclists and its daily argument that the east side is wilder than it looks.
Read MoreUnion Park is 10,452 people astride East Colonial Drive in unincorporated Orange County — defined less by its corridor than by the river behind it: the Little Econ, Blanchard Park and 7.4 miles of greenway.
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Jay Blanchard Park is Union Park’s front yard: 84 acres of Orange County parkland on the Little Econ River at Dean Road — fields, courts, playgrounds, a YMCA family center and the greenway running through.
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Downtown in minutes, UCF up the corridor, the coast an hour east on SR-50: from Azalea Park’s grid, the day trips radiate — each with its own hub and its own name.
Read MoreChickasaw Trail gives Azalea Park’s eastern half its name and its school; the corridor toward the SR-408 and the east side’s growth is where the community’s future presses in.
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Orlando Executive Airport — Orlando’s original municipal airfield — forms Azalea Park’s northwestern boundary, with Lake Barton at its edge. The community that lives beside the runways.
Read MoreAzalea Park holds no ranked tables, so its evening runs west — Colonialtown’s tucked-away dining streets and downtown’s lake, labelled with their home areas — and home to the quiet grid.
Read MoreSR-408 at the doorstep, Colonial Drive north, Semoran to the airport, an executive airport on the boundary: Azalea Park’s connections are the strongest thing about its map.
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One road divides Azalea Park’s boundary logic, names its northern half and points at the lake on its western doorstep. Lake Underhill Road is the community’s internal compass.
Read MoreA slow morning on the subdivision streets, the Lake Underhill Path at the community’s western doorstep — labelled as Orlando’s park, used as Azalea Park’s own — and an east-side evening.
Read MoreOrlando Citizen — a name first published in 1897