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The long-sought \u2014 and long overdue, some say \u2014 permanent memorial to the Pulse tragedy is expected to begin its year-long construction timetable this September, pursuing an ambitious goal set by Dyer to complete the project by the time he leaves office in late 2027.<\/p>\n

Read more Maxwell: 10 years after Pulse, Orlando won\u2019t let anyone erase this tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n

The memorial, estimated to cost around $12 million, will contain a reflection pool where the club\u2019s dance floor once stood and an elliptical walkway with 49 columns, one for each of the \u201c49 angels,\u201d as the victims are known. Light features \u2013 including the colors of the rainbow \u2013 abound.<\/p>\n

The memorial effort dragged for years as the private onePulse Foundation, originally tasked to create it, stumbled and then collapsed amid excessive ambition that produced a plan for a $100 million memorial and museum the group had no ability to fund. The foundation\u2019s demise left a trail of broken trust throughout the region, particularly among survivors and families.<\/p>\n

The City of Orlando ultimately purchased the Pulse property in 2023 for $2 million, as well as a neighboring property for $1 million, promising to complete the project. It set up a 18-member committee of survivors and victims\u2019 families to help reach a consensus on what the memorial should look like.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s meetings were sometimes contentious, with one of the toughest debates being whether the nightclub would be demolished or preserved in part. But with a striking degree of unity, the panel in the end unanimously recommended a final design, although it left some design choices to the city.<\/p>\n

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Survivors and victims\u2019 families were allowed to go inside the nightclub one final time on the week of the massacre\u2019s ninth anniversary last year before it was torn down in March to make way for the memorial. Some items from the club have been preserved in a secret warehouse the city showed to reporters last week, and are expected to be put on display.<\/p>\n

Although the Pulse massacre\u2019s status as the country\u2019s deadliest was supplanted the year after that June night, in Las Vegas in 2017, its resonance remains for the broad community that suffered through it or came to understand it, here and around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have a beautiful, respectable place to go visit, to honor our loved ones,\u201d said Alvear, a member of the advisory committee.<\/p>\n

Read more Editorial: In the aftermath of horror, Orlando chose love<\/a><\/p>\n

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