Source: Orlando Sentinel The glass-clad Burnham Institute for Medical Research shimmers in the sunlight, which pours in through banks of windows and a giant atrium that illuminates the building’s interior. It is a fitting image for an institution that has served as a beacon in the development of Orlando’s life-sciences hub. When Burnham is officially [...]
Source: Florida Trend The three-story Burnham Institute building stands out as a shiny, landscaped oasis amid 600 dusty acres in southeast Orlando that have been scraped naked by bulldozers and smoothed with 10 million square yards of fill dirt. The first of what ultimately will number 300 Burnham scientists and support staff have settled in [...]
Orlando’s defense training industry has established a task-force working group to help bring high-tech training technologies to the region’s budding Medical City complex, officials said Tuesday. The new collaboration unit – known in tech lingo as a Special Interest Group – will include experts from the military training industry, academia and healthcare, according to the [...]
Source: Orlando Sentinel The medical city sprouting in southeast Orlando is behind schedule. So what? The delays mean that the University of Central Florida medical school, UCF’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of Orlando are about six months to a year off their [...]
From: The Orlando Sentinel Next month, officials will dedicate the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, crown jewel of the medical city emerging in southeast Orlando. Come spring, the new building for the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine will open there, too. Amid the fanfare, what few may realize is that most of the [...]
Source: Orlando Business Journal The Veterans Administration has awarded a $9.2 million contract to RBVetCo to begin the site work, utilities and the main loop road for the new Orlando VA Medical Center. The Pittsburgh-based general contractor is expected to start work later this month. Continue Reading RBVetCo gets $9.2M Orlando VA contract
The Spring 2009 edition of UCF Today headlined the economic impact of the new UCF College of Medicine. They requested more information to let our community know some specifics about the new College and its impact. The new College of Medicine will locate near Lake Nona. If you travel SR 417, you will notice the [...]
If you head over to the UCF Medical School website, you’ll see they’ve added a countdown clock to let you know when classes will start. As of writing this, there are 28 days left. This is a new era for Lake Nona, and the surrounding areas. The UCF Medical School will usher in a strong [...]
Thursday morning, construction crews began the very first stages of building the new, state-of-the-art, 95-bed Nemours Children’s hospital in Lake Nona’s Medical City. Workers began by laying the groundwork, including underground piping and utilities. In addition to healthcare, this project will create jobs and a lot of them. During the construction phase alone, there will [...]
In 2006, the future was very bright for new construction projects in east Orlando. Innovation Way and Lake Nona’s Medical Center were on the top of the list. Fast-forward three years, and everything seems to have slowed to a snails-pace. Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty made his annual pilgrimage to the East Orlando Chamber luncheon [...]
