Memorial plan for 2016 Pulse shooting on track after nearly a decade: ‘Like holding your breath’

After the onePulse Foundation aimed too high and folded, the City of Orlando stepped in to get the process under way

There were times when Patty Sheehan doubted a memorial to the victims would ever be built at the site of Orlando's Pulse nightclub, where 49 people lost their lives in 2016 in what was then the country's deadliest mass shooting.

Among the lowest points for the long-serving city commissioner was when she discovered that a gift shop was included in an ambitious original proposal for a museum to remember the survivors and those killed when a lone gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State terrorists attacked the gay club.