Read Larry Pino’s Other Views My Word article in today’s Orlando Sentinel entitled: Orlando’s renaissance: Join in community building.
For those of us who call Central Florida home, the past three years can be heralded as having laid a spectacular cornerstone for Orlando’s emerging renaissance.
While monitoring some recent articles, it occurred to me it was worth noting that these successes do not occur in a vacuum. They happen when groups get together, talk together, work together, and make change happen — together.
Approval of the extra cent for the Tourist Development Tax, the community venues project, the University of Central Florida Medical School, the Burnham Institute and the explosion of the life sciences cluster at Lake Nona — these milestones are transformative at every level: improving the quality of our lives, energizing and diversifying our economic prosperity, and creating a higher standard of living for all of us.
We all have a right to be proud. But we should not lose sight of the fact that these and other extraordinary developments do not just simply happen. They are the result of a massive effort on the part of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals.
Original writing date: January 28, 2008