Welcome To Lake Nona’s Newest Neighborhood: Laureate Park By Kelly Johnson It is official: the proverbial “pause button” for new construction, in Lake Nona, has been lifted this year, and nowhere is this more apparent than the area immediately abutting Medical City. The latest “buzz in the neighborhood” surrounds Laureate Park, [...]
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. [...]
The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute scored $300 million in 2006 when it agreed to set up shop in Central Florida, making it one of the largest beneficiaries of public incentive money in state history. Just five years later, the institute that is central to Orlando’s “medical city” development – along with UCF’s medical school and [...]
Turning the car into this manicured corner of Orlando’s gated Lake Nona enclave, the rear-view mirror fills suddenly with the vision of a hulking white Mercedes S-Class. Out into the midday sun, resplendent in a signature get-up of two-tone shirt and designer shades, steps Ian Poulter. He is talking animatedly on his iPhone. An audience [...]
Orlando’s VA hospital, with 134 in-patient beds, will shorten the trip for 90,000 veterans in Central Florida who now go to VA hospitals in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Gainesville. Veterans and elected officials marked the halfway point Sunday in the construction of the $665 million Orlando VA Medical Center with a “topping out” ceremony. A [...]
Congratulations to Lake Nona golfers Ashley Holder and Ryan Stovash who were both selected to the 2010 Orlando Sentinel All-Central Florida Golf teams. Ashley was selected to the first-team and Ryan was selected to the second-team respectively.
This is the last full week before the Thanksgiving Holiday so make sure to get out there and connect. Once again let me point out that some of the events listed are still looking for vendor & sponsor particiation. I wanted to highlight two events in particular. One event is on December 11th called International [...]
According to a recent article in the Orlando Business Journal, Firehouse subs is growing rapidly, and is “working on a location in the Lake Nona area that will likely open in 2012.” With the recently opened WineHouse at Lake Nona, we’re seeing more and more establishments coming to the area to suport the growth from [...]
Lake Nona residents are upset over a possible airport expansion. Orlando International Airport wants to build on a wetlands area near the neighborhood, but residents are concerned about the environmental impact. Hundreds of residents attended a public hearing Wednesday. They are worried about the airport cutting down wetlands. It’s an area they said is not [...]
Ian Poulter, Justin Rose and Ross Fisher all live on the same gated estate in Orlando. But Poulter, extolling the virtues of his transatlantic lifestyle in the very Home Counties setting of Woburn, would not have it any other way. “It’s European,” he says of the exclusive Lake Nona suburb he is happy to call [...]
