Quote from milktruck:
do you understand that after 9 dt orlando there is a lively happy hour and nightlife somewhere almost every day of the week, filling it with young professionals and college kids? on weekends it is swarmed from 6pm on. hell I moved dt to be able to walk everywhere. they built tons of condos and have been aiming at young professional active types to make it a vibrant city center and have half succeded. there is a publix in a multi use one block outside the cbd. I cannot remember anecdotally any crime dt more heinous than a bum asking for change and giving up immediately in all my years in dt orlando.
and fyi, I've brokered commercial property transactions in every market in florida, you probably have plenty of experience and more than I but dt orlando is one of the safest city centers i know. miami, tampa, jacksonville don't even come close.
heathrow is very nice, sterile and safer, but to consider dt unsafe is not accurate.