Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of a massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida say they are dropping their plans to build a museum.
FILE - Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting and activist, looks at the photos that are a part of the Pulse memorial in Orlando, Fla., on Sept. 9, 2022. The city of Orlando plans to purchase the gay nightclub property where 49 people were massacred seven years ago, in what at the time was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, with the intention of building a memorial for the victims, Mayor Buddy Dyer said Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. ORLANDO, Fla.
At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. But that number was surpassed the following year whenFundraising and planning for the project slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic and once shutdowns eased up soaring construction costs made the project “financially unrealistic to complete as originally conceived,” the letter said.
The efforts to build a memorial and museum for Pulse victims has been moving slowly since the massacre. Until this month, the nightclub’s owners hadn’t agreed to sell the property, and the plans to build a museum had been slated for a nearby site that was purchased for $3.5 million by the onePulse Foundation using funds raised from Orange County’s tourism tax.
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