{"id":293697,"date":"2026-06-02T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293697\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:55:27","slug":"news-6-tours-pulse-artifacts-stored-in-undisclosed-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293697\/","title":{"rendered":"News 6 tours Pulse artifacts stored in undisclosed warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Nearly 10 years after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, the City of Orlando says it\u2019s moving closer to building a permanent memorial &#8211; and the items inside the club are now being preserved in off-site warehouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News 6 toured the undisclosed warehouse location on Tuesday, where crate after crate holds items from inside the nightclub, including a chandelier, the bar top, a door and the Pulse sign.<\/p>\n<p>Pulse countertop and door held in an undisclosed warehouse in Orlando (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/21\/pulse-artifacts-to-be-removed-preserved-as-building-nears-demolition-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/21\/pulse-artifacts-to-be-removed-preserved-as-building-nears-demolition-date\/\">In December 2025<\/a>, contractors carefully removed the remaining artifacts from Pulse as part of preparations to tear down the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says some of those pieces could eventually be displayed inside the permanent Pulse memorial\u2019s planned visitor center, though space will be limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cSome of the items will be in the visitor\u2019s center, but the visitor center is pretty small, so it\u2019s not like it\u2019s going to be a museum display or anything,\u201d Dyer said. \u201cBut there will be the ability to tell the story in the visitor\u2019s center, so there might be some items that are in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chandelier from the Pulse Nightclub (WKMG-TV 2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/15\/new-renderings-released-for-pulse-memorial-as-project-reaches-60-design-phase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/15\/new-renderings-released-for-pulse-memorial-as-project-reaches-60-design-phase\/\">Orlando officials announced<\/a> the design phase for the visitor center and the broader Pulse memorial is now 60% complete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The warehouse storage follows a carefully planned packing process that began in December, when contractors loaded artifacts into custom-built crates and moved them off the site. City Facilities Division Manager Navid Erfan previously said the items were packed with \u201carchival grade materials\u201d to protect them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Pulse site had remained a powerful, largely unchanged place of mourning since June 12, 2016, when a gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others at the LGBTQ+ nightclub. The temporary memorial outside continued to draw visitors, many of whom describe being overwhelmed by the photos, tributes and personal reminders left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Boxes of Pulse artifacts collected by the city (WKMG-TV 2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The building was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/18\/pulse-nightclub-demolition-to-begin-as-orlando-moves-toward-permanent-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/18\/pulse-nightclub-demolition-to-begin-as-orlando-moves-toward-permanent-memorial\/\">demolished in March 2026<\/a> to make way for the permanent memorial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jerria Ford-Jamieson said visiting the site remains emotional, especially knowing someone close to her nearly went to Pulse the night of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI just got so emotional,\u201d Ford-Jamieson said. \u201cTears were rolling down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The city expects construction on the permanent memorial to begin this fall, with completion anticipated by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Additional artifacts from the Pulse Nightclub (WKMG-TV 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Nearly 10 years after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, the City of Orlando says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,10626,140,123911,123910],"class_list":["post-293697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-mayor","tag-orlando-news","tag-pulse-artifacts","tag-pulse-visitor-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293697","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=293697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}