Amanda Rabines
Amanda Rabines covers development and real estate in Orange County. She was born and raised in Miami, Florida where her mother, like thousands of other Cubans, arrived in 1980 during the Mariel Boatlift. It's because of her that Amanda believes in hard work and the power of Cuban coffee.
She is a graduate of Florida International University and previously covered real estate for The Real Deal and local news with NPR member station WLRN in Miami. Follow her on Twitter @amanda_rabines.
Recent Articles
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Nvision preps first phase for newly proposed mixed-use project across Reunion
Orlando-based Nvision Development Management Services is prepping the first phase of a new master-planned community along the booming Osceola-Polk County line. According to a conceptual site plan filed in Polk County, the developer is planning to build 120 townhome units in part of a multi-phase...
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Developer files plans for new mixed-use timeshare project along South I-Drive
Developer Vincent Desai is looking to build a new mixed-use project along South I-Drive that can introduce up to 708 new timeshare units to the rapidly growing tourism sector there. Robby Joshi of the architecture firm ARCHENICS filed a pre-app request with Orange County to discuss development...
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Professional athlete investment advisor pays record price for Bay Hill home
Joseph McLean, an investment advisor for some of the world's top professional athletes, just paid a record price for a lakefront home in the exclusive Bay Hill community. Listed as a Trustee of The Monarch Trust, McLean paid $3.55 million for a 6,112-square-foot home at 8935 Bay Cove Ct., marking...
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Investment fund run by Blackstone Group exec buys Maitland Center offices
A fund that invests on behalf of Tony James, the vice chairman of one of the world's largest private equity firms, Blackstone Group, just paid $33.5 million for the Reserve at Maitland office complex in Eatonville. According to a deed recorded Thursday in Orange County, Jefferson River Capital,...
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McCraney introduces new industrial park concept west of Orlando airport
McCraney Property Company is eyeing some 70 acres of timberland directly west of Orlando International Airport for a new industrial park dubbed Cone Land. According to a Preliminary Review Plan filed with Orange County last week, the West Palm Beach-based developer is looking to build a 977,400-square-foot...
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Condemned Sola at Celebration apartments to open again under new name
The recent owners of the condemned Sola at Celebration multifamily community are drawing up plans to breathe new life into the vacated apartments. For one, Cohen Goldstein Investment Strategies is changing the community’s name to Astoria at Celebration, spokesman Bruce Beck confirmed. In an off-market...
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Condemned apartment complex in Celebration fetches $43M
A Woodland Hills, California-based investment firm just paid $43 million for the Sola at Celebration apartments — a condemned multifamily community at the center of litigation between developer Hines and its previous owner Southstar Capital Group. With 306 units, Cohen Goldstein Investment Strategies...
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SITE Centers sells Millenia Plaza for $56.4M to Canadian real estate firm
A Canadian real estate firm just bought the Millenia Plaza shopping center in Orlando for $56.4 million. Beachwood, Ohio-based SITE Centers Corp. sold the roughly 411,500-square-foot property at 4403-4697 Millenia Plaza Way to an entity tied to North American Development Group, according to a deed...