By, David Breen | Orlando Sentinel SunRail isn’t due to start rolling through Central Florida until May, but plans are in the works for a special weekend preview. The commuter trains may be used to carry visitors to and from the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, which is set for March 21-23. "We’re proceeding down that path," said Florida Department of Transportation spokesman Steve Olson. If the plan comes…
SunRail Readies for Winter Park Ribbon Cutting
By, Isaac Babcock | Winter Park/Maitland Observer Train lovers rejoice: in less than a month SunRail will begin selling its first tickets for would-be commuters. The announcement came during a Jan. 30 presentation at the Alfond Inn in Winter Park, with officials giving a preview of the series of firsts and grand openings to come in the next few months for Central Florida’s first commuter rail system. On March 3…
Orlando SunRail Station To Get Apartment Complex
By, John W. Davis | Central Florida News 13 A new luxury apartment community is coming to Downtown Orlando, and will have SunRail at its back door. "The employment growth is what we’re looking for in terms of household formation and this is a great vibrant area," said Jay Curran, Crescent Communities vice president. Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony makes Crescent Central Station official. "It’s a very central location that has been…
SunRail Handing Out Free Round-trip Tickets If You Buy a Pass
By, Dan Tracy | Orlando Sentinel The SunRail commuter train, which starts picking up paying passengers May 1, has sold more than 6,500 passes and is offering a free round-trip ticket to anyone who buys a pass next week at two downtown Orlando office towers. SunRail intends to sell 10,000 passes – which can be loaded with any amount of money – before opening day. To help reach that goal, on…
City Offers Jobs Incentives For Creative Village, SunRail Projects
By, Mark Schlueb | Orlando Sentinel Orlando revamped an economic development program Monday to offer job-creation incentives to companies that match the Dyer administration’s favored downtown projects: the Creative Village and SunRail. Since 2006, the city has offered incentives of as much as $1,500-per-job to targeted industries that move downtown. The City Council rewrote the program to offer as much as $5,000 per job. That includes several new “bonus” incentives:…