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Bungalower is a social enterprise focused on building stronger cities by informing and engaging people with their city. Here’s how we’re building stronger cities:

Bungalower.com — Our community-focused local news website covers and champions the Downtown Orlando area and surrounding bungalow neighborhoods. We cover business openings and closings, growth, and development, and quality-of-life issue

s including road construction, transit issues, and new city ordinances. Our coverage area includes most of the neighborhoods within five miles of Orlando (e.g. College Park to Baldwin Park and south to Delaney Park and Downtown South). All of our content is currently free but we do encourage readers to support the site with a Bungalower Membership. Have something you’d like to see on Bungalower.com, let us know. We also have many advertising opportunities to help you reach our over, 60,000 monthly unique visitors. Bungalower Bundle for Members — Bungalower Buddy Members receive a monthly email of local discounts and access to amazing events as well as a special keychain that can unlock discounts at participating businesses around Central Florida. Bungalower Events Calendar — The Bungalower Event Calendar contains over 5,000 events happening in the Downtown Orlando area. Our event calendar provides a one-stop-shop to find out what’s happening the in the Downtown Orlando area.

08/29/2024

Watermark, Orlando’s own LGBTQ+ newspaper, is celebrating 30 years of covering Central Florida q***r headlines and the Orange County Regional History Center has joined the celebration with an exhibition of its own. Cover Story: Celebrating Watermark’s 30 Years features a retrospective of 30 of t...

08/29/2024

The Nook on Robinson (Instagram) is hosting a special plant exchange on Friday, August 30. The Prop Swap Plan Exchange will take place from 6-9 p.m. and encourages participants to bring at least one plant or some seeds to swap with strangers. And a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet. Ge...

08/29/2024

Maker Faire Orlando (Website) will bring its annual celebration of do-it-yourself science, art, robots, and tech to the Central Florida Fairgrounds on November 9 and 10 this year. The two-day annual festival will showcase local makers ranging from tech enthusiasts to garage scientists to crafters wi...

08/29/2024

Film fans can get the chance to enjoy an evening with filmmaker C. Thomas Howell, who played Ponyboy in the 1983 hit film, The Outsiders, on Thursday, September 5 at 6 p.m. Based on S.E. Hinton’s best-selling classic novel and directed by Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Francis Ford Coppola,...

A KFC bucket that keeps your chicken hot for the whole shin-dig.
08/28/2024

A KFC bucket that keeps your chicken hot for the whole shin-dig.

Orlando-based drinkware brand Corkcicle (Website) has teamed up with Kentucky Fried Chicken to release a new collab collection inspired by America’s most popular fried chicken brand. The partnership of the two brands has resulted in a series of limited-edition drinkware including tumblers, canteen...

We love everything we're hearing about Qahwah Con Leche!
08/28/2024

We love everything we're hearing about Qahwah Con Leche!

A pop-up coffee bar/DJ experience is coming to Orlando’s Uncle Tony’s Donut Shoppe (Instagram) record store in the North Quarter next month, bringing cross-cultural craft coffee, vinyl, food, and “some serious vibes.” Qahwah Con Leche (Instagram) is the brainchild of Puerto Rican producer an...

08/28/2024

A new 8,800 SF Asian buffet is opening in a storefront at the Shoppes of Orlando Fashion Square Mall. Ocean Buffet, yes the same brand as the ones in Gainesville and Ocala, will be opening next to Floor and Decor, thanks to the California-based LBX Investments. The brand serves up Chinese, sushi, se...

Here's what longtime arts sherpa Pat Greene has to say about fun events and people in the City Beautiful this week. Brou...
08/28/2024

Here's what longtime arts sherpa Pat Greene has to say about fun events and people in the City Beautiful this week. Brought to you by column sponsor Interstruct!

Pat Greene is Bungalower Media’s first sponsored Resident Reporter. Greene has joined our team as our Arts and Culture Correspondent for the next quarter, supported by the efforts of Interstruct Design + Build, an award-winning Orlando-based design and build firm. A big part of what I love about O...

08/28/2024

The Rotary Club of College Park will once again host its hit Taste of College Park fundraising event this October, but after many happy years at Dubsdread Golf Course, the club will be moving the party to the newly opened Great Southern Box Co. Food Hall in The Packing District. Taste of College Par...

08/27/2024

Mead Botanical Garden will play host to a special tree-focused symposium of sorts on Thursday, October 17 from 5:15-7:30 p.m. “Tree Time – Green Up” will feature a guided tour of 21 tree species that are seen as the most desirable for Florida yards, followed by an interactive panel discussion ...

Congrats to Watermark on 30 years!
08/27/2024

Congrats to Watermark on 30 years!

Watermark, Orlando’s own LGBTQ+ newspaper, is celebrating 30 years of covering Central Florida q***r headlines and the Orange County Regional History Center has joined the celebration with an exhibition of its own. Cover Story: Celebrating Watermark’s 30 Years features a retrospective of 30 of t...

08/27/2024

Orlando-based drinkware brand Corkcicle (Website) has teamed up with Kentucky Fried Chicken to release a new collab collection inspired by America’s most popular fried chicken brand. The partnership of the two brands has resulted in a series of limited-edition drinkware including tumblers, canteen...

That isn't ma*****na...
08/26/2024

That isn't ma*****na...

This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s downtown “bungalow neighborhoods.” Click HERE to listen to Episode 393, as Brendan and Jon head to the new Ivanhoe Park Lager House in the former Deadwods Brewing space. Heads up, this one wasn’t on t...

08/23/2024

We told you back in July 2023 that the iconic Hood’s Up building had hit the market and was finally for sale, after sitting vacant and dangling its sad little bucket of pool noodles at us through the window for decades. The former gas station, located at 2400 E. Robinson Street [GMap], was purchas...

08/22/2024

Pat Greene is Bungalower Media’s first sponsored Resident Reporter. Greene has joined our team as our Arts and Culture Correspondent for the next quarter, supported by the efforts of Interstruct Design + Build, an award-winning Orlando-based design and build firm. When people reduce Orlando to the...

Thank you to Orlando Weekly readers for recognizing Bungalower, Brendan O'Connor, Jon Busdeker, and Brenda from Bithlo i...
08/22/2024

Thank you to Orlando Weekly readers for recognizing Bungalower, Brendan O'Connor, Jon Busdeker, and Brenda from Bithlo in this year's Best of Orlando awards!

-Bungalower & The Bus was voted 2nd best local podcast
-Brendan Bunting O'Connor won 2nd place for Best Local Influencer
-Brenda From Bithlo, Bungalower's resident advice columnist won 2nd place for Best Local Drag Event.

We appreciate the support!

Fresh from a win as “Best Local Podcast” in Orlando Magazine‘s Best of ORL reader awards, Bungalower Media has walked away with another award for its seven-year-old podcast and radio show, “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 FM. The results for Orlando Weekly‘s Best of Orlando 2...

08/21/2024

Mayhem on Mills (Instagram) will return to The Veranda at Thornton Park this Sunday, August 25, with a special Clue-themed “Live Pro-Wrestling Who-Won-It” event called “The Score.” The event promises its usual chair-meets-face excitement in the ring alongside a mystery that will allegedly un...

08/21/2024

Roughly a year after it first opened in Mills 50’s Little Vietnam, The Mongolorian (Instagram) has closed. The Star Wars-inspired restaurant specialized in Mongolian barbecue-inspired rice and noodle bowls that were first prepared by fancy “robot chefs” which stirred themselves. Those robots w...

Could be a great opportunity for local builders to come up with a service that specializes in building ADUs for people! ...
08/20/2024

Could be a great opportunity for local builders to come up with a service that specializes in building ADUs for people! Maybe even renting them out as a third-party service.

The Orange County Government has just launched a new program called “Ready Set Orange” through which it will incentivize and encourage the construction of more starter-homes, single-family homes, and Accessory Dwelling Units. “The intent of this program is to provide greater attainable housing...

08/20/2024

According to paperwork filed with the City of Orlando by Z Development Services, a developer (under the names East West Place LLC and FL Acquisition LLC) is looking to build a new 36-unit townhome project on almost two acres of assembled properties in the Hourglass District, just south of downtown O...

08/20/2024

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is actively recruiting for its ever-growing Python Patrol posse. The Python Patrol (Website) is a network of individuals throughout the state (mostly in South Florida) who can identify Burmese pythons, report sightings, search, and safely capture...

08/20/2024

According to the Downtown Development Board, “exciting changes are coming” to Church Street as part of their ongoing mission to boost local business activities and mobility in the downtown core. City Council recently approved efforts that will transform the streetscape along a section of Church ...

08/19/2024

The City of Winter Park and Winter Park Public Library will host another Don’t Pitch It – Fix It event on Saturday, September 7 from 9 a.m.-noon. The community repair workshop will take place at the Winter Park Community Center located at 721 W. New England Avenue [GMap] in Hannibal Square and i...

They're looking to fill the gap left by bird flu and (allegedly) murderous river otters ...
08/19/2024

They're looking to fill the gap left by bird flu and (allegedly) murderous river otters ...

City Council recently approved the proposed purchase of six new swans for its ever-changing flock at Lake Eola. Commissioner Patti Sheehan made the request for funds in the amount of $19,500, to purchase mated pairs of Australian black-necked, trumpeter, and whooper swans. The two Australian swans w...

08/19/2024

“It looks like the pagoda on Lake Eola is finally being repaired. Do you have any information?” – BUNGALOWER READER The pagoda is actually called The Chinese Ting, and it was a gift from Orlando’s sister city in China, Guilin. It was gifted to the city roughly 30 years ago by a company out o...

08/19/2024

This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s downtown “bungalow neighborhoods.” Click HERE to listen to Episode 392, Brendan is back from his trip to Canada so Jon and his boss, show layer Moses DeWitt, take him out for a coffee at the newly opened ...

08/16/2024

This 1,815 SF waterfront townhome, located at 2366 Addalia Aly at The Brix at the Packing District, offers a blend of contemporary luxury and practicality. The gourmet kitchen stands out with its finishes, upgraded white cabinets, and high-end KitchenAid gas appliances, complemented by expansive cou...

08/16/2024

Mark your calendars, Red Bull is bringing some of the world’s top wakeboarders to Ivanhoe Village’s Lake Ivanhoe on Saturday, September 7 as part of its Red Bull Double or Nothing event series. The event gets its name from the “double-up”, which is the moment when two wakes combine into one,...

08/12/2024

Every month, the Orlando Regional REALTOR Association releases a snapshot of local housing market activity. The report tracks several key metrics for measuring the the market’s overall health, including sales volume, interest rates, and average and median home sale prices. Bungalower began trackin...

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Bungalower is social enterprise focused on building stronger cities by informing and engaging people with their city. Here’s how we’re building stronger cities: Bungalower.com — Our community-focused local news website covers and champions the Downtown Orlando area and surrounding bungalow neighborhoods. We cover business openings and closings, growth and development and quality-of-life issues including road construction, transit issues and new city ordinances. Our coverage area includes most of the neighborhoods within five miles of Orlando (e.g. College Park to Baldwin Park and south to Delaney Park and Downtown South). All of our content is currently free but we do encourage readers to support the site with a Bungalower Membership. Have something you’d like to see on Bungalower.com, let us know. We also have many advertising opportunities to help you reach our over 60,000 monthly unique visitors.

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