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, [...]
Just off State Road 417, a five-minute drive east from Orlando International Airport, a 650-acre parcel of land is fast becoming a $2 billion medical campus, including a medical school, research laboratories and hospitals. Three years ago the Lake Nona medical city, as it is known, was nothing but a pasture and a promise. Its [...]
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 [...]
The sky is dotted with construction cranes that mark the location of the “medical city” at Lake Nona where $2billion of development is under way. This impressive site includes Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, the University of Central Florida medical school and Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando’s Cancer Research Institute, Nemours [...]
The Orlando Sentinel posted a great interview with Tom Baptiste, new chief of the National Center for Simulation, and one of the questions in particular shows great signs for the Lake Nona Medical Center. Below is the question, but click the link to read the full interview. CFB: What areas of simulation are showing the [...]
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 [...]
In anticipation for the projected new jobs in Lake Nona, and specifically in Medical City, NarcoosseeFL has launched the new Lake Nona Job Board. There’s not much there now, as we launched the site only a few hours ago, but we feel this job board will serve as the first place job seekers and employers [...]
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
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 [...]
