Uniform Cottage has been at a location on Pleasant Street and Darlington Avenue in downtown Kissimmee for 36 years.

  • Construction on Toho Square parking garage begins in August
  • Construction will impact traffic, possibly slow down business

“It’s my life. It’s all I have,” said Bobby Abraham, who’s owned the business for the past 13 years.

School starts next month and it's a season Abraham looks forward to every year. But construction nearby is also scheduled to start in August.

The city will be building a three and a half story parking garage with 400 spaces on Toho Square. And a private developer will be building 50 new residential units.

During construction, Pleasant Street and Darlington Avenue will temporarily close to add brick streets and wider sidewalks.

“Because if parking is too hard, people will walk too far from there. So maybe they choose another place to go,” Abraham explained.

While Abraham is worried all the construction will slow down his business, he says the city is working with him to make things come together. One thing he is looking forward to is the plan to add more than 600 parking spaces.

“We have great bones downtown and we’re just building on those. And we’re holding onto our history, our architecture and we’re just adding to that,” said Craig Holland, the CRA Director for the City Of Kissimmee. “A lot of people say they may be losing old Kissimmee but we’re really preserving that, adding to that and making it better."

Abraham is hopeful that in the near future, all the changes downtown will bring more customers his way. “So more customers ultimately coming to downtown, so that will be good for my business,” said Abraham.