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Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Blanchard 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.
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The Little Econ is the smaller sibling of the Econlockhatchee, a St. Johns tributary that bends through Union Park’s parkland — the natural fact that organises the whole community.
Read MoreNo ranked restaurants sit inside Union Park and none are invented here. The community eats on East Colonial Drive — its own working strip — and at East Orlando’s ranked tables, labelled as theirs.
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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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