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In Winter Park, there are a number of condos that have underground parking too: Park Aire on the Avenue, Whispering Waters, Villa Siena and The Residences on Interlachen, and the new Gothic-inspired building on Canton.  Also, many older buildings here have basements, including several in Lake Eola Heights and Winter Park.

are these all one level.  In looking for a home here I did recall a couple of homes that advertised basements right after I posted.  Kinda scared me away from looking at them honestly.  With all the water in town in lakes and ponds that are higher than even the most shallow basement might be I was worried that the house would either have or develop water issues.  

 

Figured there would need to be a permanent water pump set up to address this in any large scale or deeper dig too.    Also I should have made clear that I wasn't implying that podium parking is by definition ugly.  Like everything else if there is something at ground level and the facade is treated more than as an afterthought the pedestrian experience won't suffer at all.  I actually think (and cue the lynching) that Orlando is in a unique situation to possibly learn something from Disney about the outside treatment of structures.  If there is one thing Disney CAN do it's make the outside 6 inches of a structure look good - or at least interesting.  

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International Speedway, Jacoby Development rev up mixed-use entertainment development in Daytona

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2013/08/one-daytona-project-to-accelerate.html?s=image_gallery

 

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I know it is good news for Daytona Beach, but looking at the rendering, does America doesn't know how to put parkings besides putting giant ashphalt surface lot?

What about being green and earth friendly?

 

Not unless density forces the developer to build a garage, or super density forces them to build an underground garage. (plus this is the South and not to stereotype but I seriously doubt zoning or regulations would be in place here to encourage parking that was anything but the lease expensive and usually environmentally wasteful - not that Red states would be alone in that)

 

And since I'm new-ish to Florida are underground parking garages even possible here?  Or just prohibitively expensive?  Even in Denver where I just left we had mostly podium parking but there were some projects that dug under for the garage making parking relatively invisible.  I've been watching the construction of the new Orlando Health building and it looked like they did go one level under but obviously not for parking as that is spread out in other places on the campus.  I work in the lab and this is the only hospital I've ever worked where the lab hasn't been in a basement - because there really isn't one.