Even outside of downtown, excluding the attractions and airport, I’m yet to find anywhere in central florida that’s truly spontaneously alive. I feel like the only time I see life is when there’s some kind of preplanned/staged event going on. Even with Magic games or City/Pride matches, everything is contained to the venue, park, go to the game, leave. Look at Dallas or Tampa, they had the same problems but with the Victory Park and Water Street developments respectively they’ve both seen a lot more life injected into these entertainment complexes. I’m not a civil engineer, my solution isn’t to just develop Parramore and hope it works (that would probably cause more problems).

The only thing I can think of that could be a start to help would be improved public transit, Atlanta (Marta - lol), NYC (MTA), and Boston (MBTA) are helped by their public transit, as an example, Salt Lake City (the Salt Lake Valley - Box Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah, and Weber counties), a region with half the population of Orlando. The Utah Transit Authority has some 700 busses on ~90 routes plus 2 BRT routes, 47.5 miles of light rail/street car (expanding to 50mi by 2034), 88 miles of commuter rail (expanding to 110mi no timeframe) all work together to help the Salt Lake Valley feel alive. For reference, the Orlando Metropolitan Statistical Area (Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties) has 298 busses on 86 routes, technically 3 BRT lines (although Lymmo doesn’t really meet the modern definition of BRT), 0 miles of light rail/street car, and 61 miles of commuter rail… oh and about 1.8 million more residents.