Laura Kinsler
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- The luxury homebuilder will launch sales in the country club community this summer.
- Unicorp is proposing a $643 million mixed-use district with thousands of apartments, offices, hotels, a college campus and new open-air baseball stadium.
- The discount grocer is in negotiations for a 2-acre site on John Young Parkway across from the Packing District Park.
- Arizona-based Taylor Morrison will be offering the same 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath townhomes it currently sells at Woodland Park in Southwest Orlando.
- Construction will start immediately on more than 700 luxury apartments in the ChampionsGate-Reunion area.
- The latest Shake Shack, scheduled to open later this year, is one of the first in the nation that will have a double drive-thru.
- Lake County Commissioners took extraordinary steps to stop the city from moving forward with the annexations and force it to engage in a joint planning effort.
- The property on S. Orange Blossom Trail was previously approved for 372 townhomes and apartments.
- One of the potential changes could require hotel owners to seek a conditional use permit before converting the property into apartments.
- The owners want to develop mixed use along State Road 19 and keep their working farm for years to come.
- The property along Lake Tohopekaliga's east shore is zoned for 3,650 new homes. It was on the market for $35.5 million.
- Everest Group's new flagship community will have three unique resort hotels, including North America's first "conservative lifestyle" resort.
- The 134-lot subdivision will be walking distance from the city's Hickory Point Park, which has boat ramps and other amenities on Lake Harris.
- Until now, the community has been limited to custom builders. The deal with Dream Finders Homes will bring in a new range of buyers.
- The homebuilder has paid Disney's The Celebration Company $48 million over three years for the last residential village in the master-planned community.
- The former owners of Hastings Ranch will build a new family homestead a few miles away on Coon Lake.
- The Altamonte Springs multifamily developer aims to disrupt the industry by pushing it toward 3D architecture and design.
- More than 900 homes could be built in three new subdivisions between Nova Road and Pine Grove Road.
- The City Council unanimously accepted the proposal from Woosah Craft Brew to open a microbrewery and tap room in the nearly 100-year-old building.
- As demand for townhomes soars, developers are seeking zoning for more projects in the St. Cloud submarket.
- The planned projects could add 3 million square feet of new industrial warehouse space to Central Florida.
- After COVID scuttled the sale of the outdoor mall, the owners decided to go all in on renovations to modernize the retail center.
- The site plan calls for a 55,000-square-foot big box retail building and a smaller multi tenant building.
- The master developer previously worked for Bainbridge Companies, which has built luxury apartments on Narcoossee Road near Lake Nona.
- COVID is reshaping the modern office building, from air circulation to employee spacing and touchless elevators. Find out how developers and landlords are responding to the new demand for safe work spaces.
- The new master plan includes the addition of senior housing and sports medicine components to the project.
- Osceola's County Manager says he needs a few more weeks to finalize the negotiations.
- Home prices in the gated community will likely start at over $1 million.
- The fast-casual chicken brand is targeting Orlando for up to 20 new franchise locations.
- The church has been meeting at Celebration High School since 2012. Now it's planning to break ground in March on the new $6 million building.
- The private equity firm added a fourth MetroWest multifamily asset to its portfolio.
- This is the second spec industrial project in the pipeline for the Orlando-based developer.
- The sale represents a 500% profit for seller, a Vero Beach investor who bought the park in 2010 for $8.75 million.
- The builder also chose the St. Cloud market to introduce its new streamlined, contemporary home designs.
- The homebuilder has decided to build a residential subdivision on Westside Boulevard instead of adding a fourth phase to its Solara Resort community.
- The real estate mogul who was known for his scores of vintage sports cars and yachts needs a cash infusion.
- The City of Fruitland Park has doubled its population in the last five years thanks to new spillover growth from The Villages.
- The developer best known for resort communities, like Reunion and Margaritaville, is launching a new division focused on affordable and workforce housing.
- The homebuilder will release the designs and pricing information for its brand new lineup in Celebration in the new year.
- This updated design supersedes a 2017 version that would have replaced the stucco walls with an all-glass exterior.
- The developer is eyeing a national drug store chain or small grocer to anchor the project.
- With demand for new office space downtown in historic decline, the developer is working to bring a national hotel brand to his proposed DXV Central tower.
- The museum will be bookended by a pair of indoor skydiving simulators, including the first wingsuit wind tunnel in the United States.
- The owners completed a total renovation of one hotel during the COVID shutdown. Now they're hoping to find a buyer willing to bet on Orlando's struggling tourism industry.
- The tower would be downtown Orlando's first major co-living development, where tenants lease a bedroom for about $1,000 a month.
- The plans call for 206 detached homes and 80 attached villas, plus a ¾-acre neighborhood center and 18.6 acres defined as public park or civic use.
- The $32 million Kissimmee resort will have 160 fully-furnished condos, a full service spa and a 24-hour rooftop restaurant.
- The developer wants to build a mix of apartments and townhomes on the vacant land between two of Osceola County's most popular resort communities.
- As one converted hotel welcomes its first residents, the developer is spending $25 million to convert a second Kissimmee hotel into workforce housing.
- The developer plans to build parking decks with green roofs as part of the urban mixed-use concept.