{"id":199677,"date":"2026-03-20T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199677\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:13:08","slug":"crews-progress-rapidly-on-pulse-site-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199677\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews progress rapidly on Pulse site cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Crews working to complete the cleanup of the former site where the Pulse nightclub stood had made significant progress by Friday.<\/p>\n

Demolition of the nightclub<\/a> and nearby buildings on the property began Wednesday morning. By Friday morning, only some piles of rubble and other debris remained.<\/p>\n

The nightclub was the site of a mass shooting that killed 49 people and injured many others on June 12, 2016.<\/p>\n

The clearing process was expected to take several weeks\u00a0and include the removal of the Pulse building, the adjacent building and any other structures within the fence.<\/p>\n

Construction of a permanent memorial to pay tribute to the people who died and to serve as a place for people to remember them is expected to begin in September 2026.<\/p>\n

Some mixed feelings remain about the proposed memorial design and whether they truly represent the desires of those more directly involved. The city only has about 30% of the design plan completed and provided an update on it a few weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 60% design meeting is planned in May.<\/p>\n

The goal is to complete the memorial by Fall 2027.<\/p>\n

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(Spectrum News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Crews working to complete the cleanup of the former site where the Pulse nightclub stood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,274,770,28,115,1335,768,139,141,140,275,278],"class_list":["post-199677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-fl","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}