Orange County wants to incentivize developers to build mixed-income communities By Dustin Wyatt Growthspotter Aug 09, 2022 at 6:00 pm Monroe Landings, built by Wendover Housing Partners, is an example of a mixed-income community in Sanford. (Wendover Housing Partners) Last summer, the longtime owner of 40 acres of land in Apopka began hashing out development ideas for […]
HOTELS & HOSPITALITY DEVELOPMENT NEWS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA New hotel planned for Orlando’s Westwood Boulevard near SeaWorld and OCCC By Dustin Wyatt Growthspotter Apr 18, 2022 at 5:09 pm Expand A rendering shows how a future 1,000 room hotel on Westwood Boulevard will look (Smallwood Architecture) Westwood Boulevard ― a road that runs parallel to State Road […]
PulteGroup will be the primary homebuilder within Dwight Saathoff’s The Grow By AMANDA RABINES GROWTHSPOTTER | DEC 06, 2021 AT 6:11 PM PulteGroup will build some of the first homes within The Grow master-planned community that will feature a 9-acre working farm, two major community gardens, and 20-acre public community park, and a farm-to-table restaurant. (PFD) Developer Dwight Saathoff is […]
The Packing District draws another luxury apartment development By LAURA KINSLER GROWTHSPOTTER | OCT 26, 2021 AT 4:55 PM Third Wave Development has filed plans for a 293-unit apartment building in The Packing District at 1900 Orange Blossom Trail. (Dwell Design Studio) The Packing District has drawn a third multifamily development application in the month of October, this time appropriately […]
Packing District warehouses give way to make room for more apartments By LAURA KINSLER GROWTHSPOTTER | OCT 06, 2021 AT 1:45 PM The four parcels in blue will be the site for Embrey Development’s second apartment complex in the Packing District. Outlined in red is the K and D Investments property where the owners are seeking entitlements for 600 […]
HDSi has been working on a new community for DRH since October in Groveland. The 1,500 acre property is entitled into two different forms of community; Village and hamlet. Each has a Form based Code to set development standards. The Village is more dense than the Hamlet but each require a pedestrian community orientation. For […]
Lennar Homes pays $20.7M for first half of Wellness Way project By LAURA KINSLER GROWTHSPOTTER | AUG 19, 2021 AT 6:33 PM Lennar Homes is the contracted buyer for all 1,850 single-family homesites in the Wellness Way PUD in Clermont. The homebuilder paid $20.7 million this week for the first half of the project. (HDSi) Lennar Homes closed this week […]
Property owners in Apopka begin prepping land for new multifamily development By AMANDA RABINES GROWTHSPOTTER | JUN 22, 2021 AT 4:55 PM To the north of Medicine Lake, a company linked to managers at First Team Commercial is planning to build a 304-unit apartment community. To the south (starred), property owners are prepping the land to accommodate up to […]
After two years of negotiating, six public meetings and a myriad of issues large and small, the Town Council approved the 2 acre redevelopment on Main Street last night in a unanimous vote. Jim Hall of HDSi is the team leader on this project for long time client Jim Karr and his partners. The existing […]
Condemned hotel turned condominium complex will be demolished and redeveloped By AMANDA RABINES GROWTHSPOTTER | MAY 13, 2021 AT 6:03 PM Blossom Park was originally built as a Days Inn in the 1970s. (Jacob Langston, Orlando Sentinel) Brooklyn-based investment company Sands Capital wants to help demolish a condemned hotel, turned condominium complex, near Florida Mall to make way for a new […]