Laura Kinsler

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 design team poured its creative juices into making parking structures look like public art. The formal appearance review is slated for November.

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.

Two homebuilders tried and failed to update the zoning on the 97-acre site on the shore of East Lake Toho. The new owner intends to continue running it as an RV resort and marina.

City staff said the parking garages for the new office tower and apartment tower detract from the elegant architecture of the buildings.

The nation's third-largest homebuilder is seeking approval for a new subdivision with 375 detached homes in St. Cloud.

The buyer paid cash for the 23-year-old multifamily asset, while the same week two developers received over $123 million in construction financing for new apartment communities in Margaritaville and Sunrise City.

The music-themed hotel will have spaces for live entertainment and its own full-service restaurant.

Two separate multifamily projects with a combined 950 units are in the works along Princeton Street, between Texas Avenue and Orange Blossom Trail.

The owner of Formosa Gardens on W192 wants to convert the tired shopping center into a mixed-use community with a food hall, craft brewery and hundreds of condos and apartments.

The deal covers over 1,000 lots. The builders paid $16.55 million for the first 568 lots and will close on the rest a year from now.

The Four Seasons Orlando Resort master plan would allow for a building of up to 10 stories on the parcel.

The developer will incorporate some of the design ideas it used in The Lake House apartments, including dream closets as big as a bedroom, at its new Four Corners suburban complex.

Two downtown buildings that are nearing the century mark will change hands soon as buyers seeking value add office space gravitate to historic properties.

The Miami apartment developer just closed on a site in Kissimmee's popular LOOP/Tupperware submarket and has another site under contract.

The plans call for 550 luxury rooms and villas with multiple restaurants, pools, a full spa and 50,000 square feet of ballrooms and meeting space.

The bank has chosen a New Jersey developer to add more retail, housing, a hotel and an event lawn as part of a total renovation of the aging mall.

The 120-bed assisted living facility would be on Canoe Creek Road next door to an existing rehabilitation center.

The deal covers 967 lots in the Hills of Minneola master-planned community. Dream Finders Homes paid $27.3 million this month for the first half of the lots.

The multifamily developer has started construction on apartments in Ocoee and has two sites under contract in Osceola County.

Motel conversions would only be permitted in designated areas of the W192 corridor if commissioners adopt the recommendation in October.

The developer has engaged design-build firm FINFROCK to complete the $106 million project on Kissimmee's W192 corridor.

Disney could build up to 1.8 million square feet of office space in the Lake Nona campus, which will house at least 2,000 workers. The entertainment company is also in discussions to buy roughly 6,000 homesites in Sunbridge for a retirement community.

The developer is a South Korean tech entrepreneur who has pledged to build a 3 million square foot city center, with condos, office towers, a convention hotel and retail center in Neocity.

The lush gardens and vibrant-hued glass sculptures will be lit at night, providing unparalleled views from the hotel and luxury condominiums that will be co-located in the tower.

The project would bring about 140 townhomes and a 300-unit apartment complex to Narcoossee Road, about a mile north of U.S. 192.

The Comfort Inn Maingate, which is less than a mile from Walt Disney World, is the latest hotel property to sell at about 20% below its pre-COVID valuation.

Reston, Virginia-based Stanley Martin, Builder Magazine's National Builder of the Year, will take over 300 Avex homes currently under construction and more than 4,400 controlled lots in the Orlando, Tampa, and Daytona markets.

Arizona-based Curve Development expanded into Florida earlier this year and has three Build-for-Rent communities in the pipeline, including Villages of Harmony.

Construction is scheduled to start next spring on the community, which will have 1,224 homes, in south St. Cloud.

As new home construction and sales continue on a torrid pace, GrowthSpotter gives a breakdown of the region's top-selling markets and new master-planned communities.

Plans call for a five-story building with 340 apartments and a dual-branded hotel at the entrance to Storey Drive Resort.

None of the registered bidders were willing to go higher than the $8.5 million stalking horse bid that came in before the auction even started.

The developer said he may have to give up his dream of building the world's tallest roller coaster on I-Drive.

The first phase of the project would bring 311 rental units to the site in Osceola County's Xentury City master-planned community.

The Friars Cove property is one of four new developments in the pipeline that could expand boating access to Lake Toho.

The sphere-topped Four Points Sheraton Orlando on I-Drive had been on the market for over two years. The seller said he couldn't afford to wait out the pandemic.

The three residential projects in Osceola and Volusia counties would create over 1,000 new homesites.

The Orlando-based homebuilder is acquiring 1,150 residential lots in Lake, Polk and Brevard counties, where it will start vertical construction on new homes by spring 2022.

Floor-to-ceiling windows across most of the south elevation of the building provide unobstructed views of Lake Highland, and an open breezeway creates a gathering space that helps activate the lakefront along the building's exterior.

The homebuilder will begin mass grading the site within a few weeks, but construction on the first homes in Wellness Way is still a year away.

The developer who got approvals for multiple subdivisions in the Narcoossee area is turning his attention south, to Hickory Tree Road.

Plans are being prepped for the first transit-oriented developments, including market-rate and affordable housing, on vacant land next to the Poinciana SunRail.

The apartment developers known for their over-the-top amenities will be building the pool and clubhouse for Island Village that will be turned over to CROA.

The 15-acre site is just off the Florida's Turnpike interchange has zoning and entitlements for apartments.

The largest transaction was the purchase of Deer Run Estates, a 167-lot subdivision in south St. Cloud.

Osceola Commissioners say the rash of hotel and motel conversions on W192 is harming the Kissimmee brand. The moratorium will give them time to draft an ordinance that would prohibit any future conversions on the W192 corridor.

A new luxury apartment building and more offices could be coming to Baldwin Park.

The purple motel on Kissimmee's W192 tourist corridor was the setting of "The Florida Project" movie.

The snack food giant agrees to hire 180 full-time workers and pay them at least $43,000 in exchange for getting a rebate on its property taxes.