The city’s next step comes in March, when it hopes to send out requests for bids. The project appears to be moving quickly now after years of delays.

The design proposal for the Pulse nightclub memorial was presented at an Orlando City Council workshop on Monday. The permanent memorial is meant to honor the 49 people killed in the deadly June 2016 massacre and represent the community's resiliency.

Nearly 10 years after a mass shooting that took the lives of 49 people at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Pulse in Orlando, the city is finally moving forward with a design concept for a permanent memorial to honor the lives lost and shooting survivors.

The gunman who held intensive care unit staff hostage at UPMC Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania before killing a police officer and injuring five other people Saturday believed that more could have been done to save his wife,