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An Orlando developer has filed preliminary plans for an eight-story condo hotel project on Kissimmee's W192 corridor.

More than a decade after the church started assembling property in Poinciana, the Diocese is ready to move forward with plans for a new 33-acre campus.

Investors are willing to pay a premium for the iconic pancake restaurants in Orlando, Kissimmee and St. Cloud.

One of Osceola County's largest real estate investment and management firms doubled down on its land holdings at a key St. Cloud intersection.

County Commissioners will vote Monday on the selection committee's recommendation to hire the Texas firm for the 500-acre research park.

The W192 Development Authority puts the issue of utility line burial on hold to concentrate on design standards in 2017.

Hotel developers have another two weeks to decide if they want to bid on sites at Osceola Heritage Park and Judge Farms.

The Winter Park developer wants to start construction by the end of the year on a new starter-home community in Poinciana and a luxury boating community on Alligator Lake.

Osceola County's W192 Development Authority is considering financial assistance to bury overhead power lines along the tourist corridor.

OCX board members reviewed the latest traffic and revenue projections that will go out to prospective bidders for the 60-mile toll road system.

The Osceola County Expressway Authority will release a draft of the RFLOI and meet with highway contractors and investors before the formal solicitation for its $2.5 billion toll road network.

Osceola County's W192 Development Authority had a choice of eight local and national firms that were bidding for a contract to develop new branding strategy for its tourism corridor, but members opted instead to pull the plug on the process.

Osceola County leaders named LandDesign as the top-ranked firm in the competition to design and master-plan its 500-acre Judge Farms research park. Perkins+Will and Sasaki complete the top three and will also be invited to present later this month.

SunRail got a big delivery Tuesday night - miles and miles of steel train tracks for the Phase 2 expansion into Osceola County. COO Miguel Torres said the tracks come mostly in 60-foot lengths.

Next week Osceola County will repave Formosa Gardens Boulevard - the main road servicing the new Island Grove Wine Company. But the project won't include any landscaping improvements requested by the winery's developer.

A private group headed by Tri-City Electric CEO Russ Border is planning to build a $20 million community center in west Osceola County. The group paid $1 million for 9.5 acres across from BellaLago, a boating community on the western shore of Lake Toho.

ChampionsGate master developer RIDA Development is finalizing plans for a 70,000-square-foot expansion the Osceola County Conference Center. The county has pledged $21.5 million toward the project, which also includes construction of villas, apartments, retail and a water park at the Four Corners resort.

With horizontal construction well underway at Osceola County's new active adult community The Lakes at Harmony, master developer Starwood Land Ventures has sold the first 43 lots to CalAtlantic Group for $2 million.

Osceola County is seeking experienced hotel development groups to build and manage as many as three hotels -- including two full-service hotels -- at Osceola Heritage Park and the adjacent Judge Farm property.

The committee will spend the next few weeks scoring the proposals and deciding which teams to invite to make formal presentations. GrowthSpotter highlights the final four of eight proposals.

Eight firms competing for the contract to design Osceola County's high-tech research park have offered a glimpse into their vision for the 500-acre Judge Farm in recent responses to the county's request for letters of interest.

The proposal would give motorists a new straight shot to the airport from Osceola Parkway Extension, and eliminate the headache and expense of right-of-way acquisition for the new road.

Planned for decades, Poinciana Parkway is the first leg of Osceola County's 60-mile southern beltway.

The regional park will get three new FIFA-standard soccer fields and a championship stadium with seating for up to 2,000 spectators.

The massive Green Island Ranch has an approved DRI with entitlements for 13,000 homes and a full interchange with the Florida Turnpike.

The community, which has entitlements for nearly 3,000 residential units, will feature a new marina on Lake Tohopekaliga.

The homebuilder has rebranded the once controversial Toho Preserve as the "Town of Kindred."

While the College Station project drew one LOI to design and master plan, the Judge Farm research park drew a bevy of global firms.

The base fees for single family homes in the city limits will more than double. City officials say the new fees are comparable to Osceola County and St. Cloud.

Chairman says the tolling agency typically puts up 10 percent of the cost. The Osceola toll roads would eventually be turned over to CFX.

After paying $7.3 million last month for 29 acres on U.S. 192 W for a planned Walmart Supercenter, the company has applied to rezone an adjoining nine-acre parcel, and a revised site plan shows the future store located largely on the new property.

County commissioners have two options - expand the courthouse or move their offices out of downtown Kissimmee.

The county will hold a mandatory pre-bid conference on Dec. 11 for the $9 million expansion and renovation project.

All of the improvements, funded by the county's tourist development tax, are intended to make the facility more marketable in the uber-competitive and lucrative youth sports circuit.

Sales are hot for the active adult community called Twin Lakes, so the homebuilder is moving on to phases 2 and 3. Jones Homes is approved for a total of 737 homes.

Both schools opened to students in the fall. Charter Schools USA currently owns or manages more than 50 charter schools in Florida.

Both global and local companies will compete to master plan the 500-acre park, home to the Florida Advanced Manufacturing and Research Center, in Osceola County.

Developer says the project just east of Poinciana SunRail station will have a $1 billion economic impact for Osceola County.

The possibility of developing Valencia College's new Poinciana Campus drew more than a dozen firms to a meeting Tuesday. Bids are due Dec. 15.

Osceola County officials are banking on a new $22 million college campus in Poinciana as the catalyst to transform nearly 400 acres of undeveloped land on the

Gilbane Building Co. ranked first in a hotly contested bid for the new school and will go before the School Board next week.

The Authority hired AECOM to prepare the RFLOI and meet with other stakeholders like the Central Florida Expressway Authority and large property owners affected.

The county will have to decide whether to keep the administrative offices in downtown Kissimmee or move, and whether to add on to its county courthouse.

The school, slated to open in 2017, will have a number of unique features, including being completely solar-powered. It also will have a "trades lab" that offers non-credit classes in construction trade fields.

Kulkarni Properties will build a gated retiree subdivision on 28 acres it bought in September for $2.6M near St. Cloud.

D.R. Horton is the latest builder to buy land south of Orlando International Airport with a $4.2 million purchase of 45.6 acres.

After the county reached agreement on Deseret Ranch, it asked staff to come up with options to keep other ranchlands rural.

The Osceola School District will draw up a short-list soon. The school will have separate wings for STEM programs.

The Osceola County Expressway Authority will begin to look for private investors later this month to front the money for its toll road network.

The Osceola County Expressway Authority is finalizing route selection for eastern segment, and all proposed options go through the exclusive golf community.