New project breaks ground in trendy downtown district

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Standing in front of an assembled crowd, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer remarked that while he often is invited to ribbon-cuttings in the city’s downtown neighborhoods, it’s less frequent that he gets to attend groundbreakings, given how built out the popular districts are.

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Add to that the need for more housing in the city’s core, and it made the groundbreaking Dyer attended March 10 for the 27-unit Milk Stacks apartments at 211 S. Bumby Ave. in the Milk District neighborhood all the more significant.

“Adding housing is the No. 1 thing we are working on in the city of Orlando — and adding infill housing is especially important,” Dyer said before posing for photos with the project’s development team.

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