. >> a guy named bob snow started, first, rosie o'grady's and then grew it into an entertainment complexith four or five different nightclubs. >> by 1985, church street station was pulling in 1.7 million visitors annually, making it the fourth-most-popular tourist attraction in florida after, of course, walt disney world, sea world, and busch gardens. the church street exchange building has a shopping mall constantly packed with tourists bussed in from disney world and universal. >> and the universal tourists would come here to party, come here to shop. >> you would have 20 buses park downtown because they didn't have as many things to do out at disney in the evening. ♪ >> but the theme parks, well, they caught on and built their own shopping and night-life destinations like downtown disney, and universal citywalk. >> when that happened, it pretty much killed this building, and it killed a lot of what was known of downtown. and so it's sat empty now for about 15 years. >> so downtown orlando -- well, it began to decline, and church street station along with it. the area -- it became negl

. >> a guy named bob snow started, first, rosie o'grady's and then grew it into an entertainment complexr five different nightclubs. >> by 1985, church street station was pulling in 1.7 million visitors annually, making it the fourth-most-popular tourist attraction in florida after, of course, walt disney world, sea world, and busch gardens. the church street exchange building has a shopping mall constantly packed with tourists bussed in from disney world and universal. >> and the universal tourists would come here to party, come here to shop. >> you would have 20 buses park downtown because they didn't have as many things to do out at disney in the evening. ♪ >> but the theme parks, well, they caught on and built their own shopping and night-life destinations like downtown disney, and universal citywalk. >> when that happened, it pretty much killed this building, and it killed a lot of what was known of downtown. and so it's sat empty now for about 15 years. >> so downtown orlando -- well, it began to decline, and church street station along with it. the area -- it became neglected. and