If you live in Narcoossee or Lake Nona, there’s a good chance you’re excited about the future development of our area. Not sure how this info came to me, but I woke to an email telling me about a new shopping center coming to the area that should be opening in the beginning of 2012.

According to the flyer, it is a standard shopping center with a large grocery store as its anchor. The flyer is info for leasing space, so it doesn’t seem anyone has locked into the building yet, but with Publix 2 miles away, I’m curious to see who ends up here.

Here’s a map of the location:

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And here’s the flyer I received:

Lake Nona Plaza – Flyer

Any idea what’s coming here? Tell us about it in the comments.

The company declined to say how many and what positions were cut, but at least one was Jane Smalley, director of marketing and communications, whose voice-mail message said she was no longer with the company. Smalley was unavailable for comment.

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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 big projects anchoring the Lake Nona development are about a year behind their announced schedules.

Out beyond the city’s international airport, Lake Nona Country Club and even a few cow pastures, the three-story Burnham Institute was expected to open as early as last summer. It was completed in April instead.

Just down a lighted, manicured boulevard from the school, the UCF medical school was originally expected to open last fall. The first students started classes this fall in temporary quarters near the main UCF campus, but classes at Lake Nona won’t start until next summer. Next door to the med school, both UCF’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of Orlando were expected to open about a year ago. They are now shooting for next month.

Backers of some of the projects say their facilities have benefited from the delays, but the slowdowns have not helped a region desperate for jobs. Metro Orlando’s unemployment rate is nearly 11percent.

“The delay is unfortunate, in that hires by the College of Medicine would have boosted the Orlando housing market when the timing could not be better,” said David Denslow, a University of Florida economics professor. “But I’m sure it’s important to get the design right for the long haul.”

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