Dr. Steven Smith is finally getting some respect. Although the director of the new Florida Hospital-Burnham Clinical Research Institute has gained a national reputation for his groundbreaking obesity and diabetes research, only in recent years has his field of study become recognized as a legitimate scientific discipline — and one of the top health concerns [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From Orlando Sentinel Residents near east Boggy Creek Road came to a County Commission meeting ready to protest a development of 20 or so houses in their rural north Osceola neighborhood. Instead, they quickly found themselves facing a much bigger proposal — thanks in part to a growing medical city to the north in Orange [...]
Built with sustainable wood and plenty of glass to promote energy-efficient lighting, the first facility completed at Lake Nona’s new “medical city” will be one of the state’s greenest. The Burnham Institute for Medical Research is opening the doors to its 175,000-square-foot complex Friday, giving form — and function — to the $80 million campus. [...]
Reported by Scott Harris ORLANDO — A new Veterans Affairs hospital will open in Central Florida in 2012. On Tuesday, the Veterans Affairs Committee met with several local lawmakers about progress on the new facility being built at Lake Nona. The effort to secure the facility has been under way since the 1980s. Committee members [...]
04.15.2009 – ORLANDO, Fla. – Lennar’s Central Florida Division has completed construction of a new model town home at Camden Landing at Wyndham Lakes, located at 2446 Strandhill St. off Wyndham Lakes Blvd between Boggy Creek Rd. and Landstar, near the Lake Nona medical campus in southeast Orlando. Mark Metheny, president of Lennar’s Central Florida [...]
