A bar and restaurant are headed into two buildings on Church Street, feeding on traffic from the new soccer stadium.

Developer Timothy Green plans to renovate a portion of a building just south of the Orlando City Soccer Stadium on Church Street for a hybrid cafe and bar.

“The Lion’s Den” would function as a bar on days with soccer games, but the rest of the time would be a cafe or private event space.

“If we wanted, we could probably run it just on days with soccer games. We could do really well,” said Green, CEO of Green Tree Development Group.

It’s located at 642 W. Church Street. Green hopes to have the new business running in October.

Green will lease the property and is working with the City of Orlando approval to modify the exterior of the building.

His background is in residential development, mostly in the Windermere area.

It’s one of two properties Green is developing on Church Street, an area he is trying to rebrand as “The District.” He sees it as a new entertainment district that can complement the Church Street area between Orange Avenue and Interstate 4.

“I definitely see that area as new and expanding into downtown,” he said. “I believe that will be the new district.”

The Lion’s Den name is similar, but unrelated, to the Lion’s Pride bar on Church Street, a project partially owned by the soccer club. That venue was announced in May 2016 and opened more recently this year, with private VIP areas available to members.

Green plans to invest as much as $250,000 on the project, Growthspotter reported.

For his other project, Green and a partner purchased a 6,000-square-foot building at 532 W. Church Street. He is planning a new restaurant project at the property that could feed off visitors to both the Amway Center and the soccer stadium.

There is a lot of other activity on the west side. The Orlando Magic are planning to build a new entertainment, dining and retail complex west of the interstate. And the owners of Wall Street Plaza downtown have also purchased a property north of the soccer stadium for a bar.

Green’s building near the Amway Center was briefly the home of Pi Pizza, but that closed after just a few months of operation, he said.

Instead, he is working to bring in a new group with a new concept for the building. It could open as soon around the end of the year, he said.

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