The Orlando Sentinel (http://goo.gl/q4ou4v) reports that Mayor Buddy Dyer mentioned the city’s interest during a radio interview that aired Wednesday.
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The Mayor of Orlando says that the city may take ownership of the Pulse nightclub to ensure a permanent memorial on the site. “I think we need to determine some period of time that we leave it exactly as is, with some adequate fencing, because there will be people”.
Dyer said the club would remain unchanged for possibly a year so people who wish to visit could view it as it now exists.
Nearly two months after the deadly mass shooting that took place at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, in which 49 people were murdered, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced that the municipality wishes to buy the club and turn it into a permanent memorial. “I’ve been, quite honestly, a little surprised at the volume of visitors that we have had”.
On Wednesday, Dyer and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel visited the makeshift memorial that has sprung up on the site.
A Pulse spokesperson told the Orlando Sentinel the club’s owner had recently met with city officials about the idea but talks are still “very preliminary”.
Flowers, posters and crosses remain at the site as tributes to the victims.
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“She really doesn’t know what she wants to do other than her desire is that the site become a memorial”, Brady said.
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OnePulse Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) incorporated by the owners of Pulse Nightclub and established to provide assistance to the victims of the mass shooting, filed the paperwork with the State of Florida earlier this month.
