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The first phase of Everest Place will include a town center with restaurants, retail, apartments and offices. It will be followed by up to four hotels, condo towers and a shared swimming lagoon and beach.
- The host of Animal Planet's "Treehouse Masters" is one of the backers of the resort, planned along the St. Johns River in northeast Lake County.
- The sale coincides with more multifamily news across Central Florida, including Integra Land Company's recent construction loan for new apartments in the sports-themed Olympus mixed-use district in Clermont.
- The design team poured its creative juices into making parking structures look like public art. The formal appearance review is slated for November.
- The Marriott and Hilton franchisee will build its sixth Home2 Suites, and first in Florida, on County Road 532 across from Reunion Village.
- After doing some research, the developer removed the ground-floor retail and opted to build two, 2-story office buildings instead of four.
- Roughly 10 acres of land overlooking Lake Sheen, which once belonged to a prominent Disney exec, is being transformed into a 15-lot luxury single-family home community.
- Art sculptures and a so-called public "art walk" are part of plans for Brand Properties' 297-unit Ellington at Oviedo Park mixed-use community near the Oviedo City Hall building.
- The City Council was on the verge of voting to deny the project when the developer withdrew the application. The project would have been the first apartment complex to be built in the city limits in 20 years.
- The once-unheard-of sale price of $5 million is becoming commonplace in Reunion as investors pay top-dollar for vacation homes.
- The PGA champion and his wife had finished the plans for their dream home hours before the accident that took his life. She finished the house and lived there for 20 years before putting it on the market this summer.
