ORLANDO, Fla. – Come Sunday, the City Beautiful will host the Pro Bowl for the first time.
For years, the game has been in Hawaii at Aloha Stadium but this year it's making its way to Central Florida.
"For us to bring it over to the main land and showcase it here in Orlando and Central Florida is absolutely big for a variety of reasons," Kirk Wingerson, marketing division manager for the city, said.
Wingerson credits a number of factors for winning the bid on the game: Orlando's weather, attractions and, of course, the renovated Camping World Stadium.
"Truth be told, if we did not do the reconstruction to the stadium back in 2014 we wouldn't have landed and event like this. There's just no way about it," Wingerson said.
Camping World Stadium can hold about 60,000 people. As of last week, Wingerson said there were about 5,000 tickets still for sale.
"We don't have a professional sports team that plays in this stadium, a NFL franchise," Wingerson said. "We certainly have three in state but for them to bring the best of their players to come to this stadium this Sunday at 8 p.m. is really a big deal."
The game may be Sunday but events at ESPN's Wide World of Sports has filled up the week's calendar.
For a list of those visit the Pro Bowl website.
Monday night, a party will be held for volunteers.
Tuesday is this week's official kickoff.
As crews prepare at Camping World Stadium, employees at downtown restaurants and bars are gearing up for a busy weekend.
"A typical day we would have five to six (staff). We are going to have about 20-25 people here that day just to makes sure no one had to wait for anything," Graffiti Junktion general manager Thomas Sparks said.
Sparks said parts of the street will be blocked off for a street party.
The restaurant manager said he knew the Pro Bowl was headed to Orlando and has been planning since November.
With the stadium just three miles away, he said the business is going to be tenfold.
"It's great for the city of Orlando to get events like this between this and WrestleMania coming up," Sparks said. "It makes it a great thing for the entire city along for the church street district."
Just a few blocks down, Wall Street bars are holding their own block party.
"Having events here all the time gives us a leg up. We know what we're doing here. We like to throw big block parties and we do it very often," Wall Street Plaza events and marketing director Paul Emery said.
With this being Orlando's first Pro Bowl, Emery says they don't really know what to expect crowd-wise.
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But either way, they're prepared.