On 11-10-08 a meeting was held by The City of Orlando to update the Parramore area residents and businesses on the status of the Community Venues being designed and contructed in the Downtown area. Those projects are the Citrus Bowl Renovation, The Dr. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center and the Orlando Events Center. All three projects are very exciting and will bring jobs to Orlando.
Much of the meeting delt with the MBE and WBE compliance that has been and is being obtained by the Developers, Contractors and Consultants. The "BluePrint" Employment program that is a partnership between the City of Orlando and Workforce Central Florida was explained. My understanding is that through this "Blueprint" program potential employees that are either residents of the Parramore area, homeless or "exoffenders" are targeted for filling the jobs on these Community Venue Projects.
Businesses located inside of the Parramore are recieve no benefit in the bidding opportunities unless they are MBE or WBE. My understanding is however that if there are no "local"(Central Florida) vendors but the prices and all other factors being equal, a City of Orlando business will get the project above a business outside of Central Florida.
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