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Converting the Ambassador Hotel into affordable Palm Gardens Apartments in Orlando is underway, with the delivery of the first of 150 low-priced units on West Colonial Drive expected early next year, officials said Tuesday. Crews are working on renovations at the decades-old hotel – previously known for drug activity and prostitution – to turn it into mostly studio apartments, expected to rent .