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The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority has joined the list of developers and landowners hoping to cash in on the “medical city” that’s rising out of pasture land in southeastern Orange County.
For more than 20 years, GOAA has owned an 1,800-acre parcel of vacant land south of the airport, originally purchased to provide wetlands mitigation to offset development at the airport itself.
But now the land is surrounded by some of the hottest development projects in Central Florida. And GOAA planners are dusting off plans — first drafted in mid-decade — to turn the so-called “Poitras property,” named for its previous owners, into a mixed-use development site over the next decade or so.
To the north, Orlando’s future “medical city” is rising — a children’s and a veterans’ hospital, along with the new University of Central Florida medical school, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, and a new University of Florida academic and research center.
To the east sits the upscale Lake Nona mixed-use community, while due south is some of Osceola County’s hottest property, including the 12,000-acre “Northeast District” project proposed on the Desert Ranch property owned by the Mormon church.
