Vision for long-delayed memorial to Pulse victims finally comes into view
Orlando leaders plan to tear down the site of the mass shooting and establish a reflecting pool where patrons once danced in the gay club.
February 6, 2025
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Orlando leaders plan to tear down the site of the mass shooting and establish a reflecting pool where patrons once danced in the gay club.
A new memorial will honor the 49 victims killed in the Pulse attack and could be completed as soon as next week.
Family members, friends, and even those who did not know the 49 victims killed in Orlando continue to pay their respects at the city's largest memorial site downtown.
The memorial will be dedicated to the 49 people killed in the massacre at Pulse nightclub. The shift marks less a torch passing and more a takeover following a year of controversy over the management of the planning.
The state department of transportation painted over the landmark overnight.
A vigil took place on Sunday at Pulse Interim Memorial in Orlando to honor the five people lost during the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.
The move comes after citizens repainted the Pulse memorial sidewalk in Pride colors.
Some survivors will revisit the gay nightclub for the first time since the 2016 tragedy claimed 49 innocent lives.
Florida budgeted for a Parkland memorial the year the shooting happened, but Pulse survivors are still fighting for the money three years later.
The Orange County Commission voted unanimously to contribute $5 million to an effort by the City of Orlando to honor those killed in the 2016 massacre.
On Thursday, nine years after he survived the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time, he will carry the victims’ stories forward but won’t set foot back into the condemned building.
The onePULSE Foundation released the video in hopes of helping police identify the suspect.
The former president paid a surprise visit to the memorial Wednesday afternoon.
The central Florida LGBTQ+ center also saw its phone lines cut around the same time.
The site has already been visited by so many, and now it will forever be a place to remember.
"I prefer a president who isn't politically correct as opposed to one who lies and panders to the communities and minorities she truly doesn't represent," said Randy Ross.
“Anything we would ever do would include a memorial,” the bar's owner has said. “We are still working through our grief.”
Politicians, athletes, and activists got personal during the White House Pride ceremony last week.
Survivors and family want accountability for what they have said were code violations that may have led to more deaths in the 2016 gay nightclub shooting.
Seddique Mateen was seated in the crowd directly behind the Democratic presidential candidate during a campaign stop in Kissimmee, Fla.