ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The city of Orlando is getting one step closer to breaking ground for the Pulse memorial.<\/p>\n
The Orlando City Commissioners will meet on Monday to accept a grant from the state.<\/p>\n
The Florida legislature gave the city a grant of more than $394,000 for the Pulse memorial project.<\/p>\n
The purpose of Monday\u2019s Pulse Funding Discussion is for city commissioners officially to accept those state funds.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Orlando city commissioners to meet Monday to accept a grant from the state
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The state gave the city of Orlando a grant of more than $394,000 for the Pulse memorial
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This comes a month after Orange County approved $5 million in funding for the memorial
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Construction will begin in October 2026 and finish by the end of 2027<\/p>\n
This also comes over a month after Orange County approved $5 million in funding for the memorial.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The county will make that payment in three separate installments of $1.6 million, which started Nov. 1,\u00a0and will continue through 2027.<\/p>\n
The city will cover the remaining $7 million for the memorial, which is estimated to cost $12 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In July, the Orlando City Council selected Winter Park-based company, Gomez Construction, to design and build the memorial.<\/p>\n
Based on the conceptual design presented by the Pulse memorial advisory committee, there will be a memorial space where the club once stood, a reflection pool, a survivor\u2019s wall and an angel ellipse with 49 columns honoring the lives of the victims who were killed in a terrorist attacked in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Construction of the memorial will begin in October 2026. They expect it to be completed by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The city of Orlando is getting one step closer to breaking ground for the Pulse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,1011,274,770,1190,115,139,141,140,16956,3139,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-40898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-community","9":"tag-app-human-interest","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-community-news","12":"tag-human-interest","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-pulse-shooting","18":"tag-sasha-teman","19":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898","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=40898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}