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  1. 3 hours ago, Jerry95 said:
    12 hours ago, orlandocity87 said:

    I'll still argue that parking garages next to two-story structures don't look good. The difference between South Eola and Lake Nona, however, is that Lake Nona is completely from scratch and doesn't have to make these mistakes. 

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    Lucky for lake Nona to have creative and artistic parking garages instead of an outdated concrete eyesore though  

  2. Lake Nona’s, and by extension Orlando’s, biotech industry set to get a huge leap forward with Caritas Therapeutics opening a facility (spun off as a separate company from formerly announced Amicus).  Moving forward and funded, great news.

  3. Gotcha.  Pretty sure the founder of bungalower is involved with a major LN project also.  I think the Orlando govt center at LN will also include a police substation.  And it sounds like both library are pretty much a done deal which is great imo. 

  4. 7 minutes ago, jrs2 said:

    fascinating.  a synergy of specialties (if you can call tanking an NBA franchise a specialty- well, I guess it can be)

    Did the Magic get City or County money for this project?  Do we know?

    Definitely an upfront deal with the land being the former police hq.  And I believe some potential funding for desired conference space 

    possibly more

  5. good discussion.  

    Wanted to add a couple things:

    lake nona has been around since the 80s (well before Baldwin park, Avalon park, universal studios, and a huge convention center were in Orlando).  Yes, the growth in medical city is newer (but some is well over a decade old though) 

    Institutions such as two university medical campuses and five different independent  medical groups are permanent and not going anywhere.  Some of these are federally and state funded, and the growth is happening around them.  Places like horizon west or Windermere will simply never have the cluster that lake Nona does.

    and an aeropolis is a pretty real (and urban) type of development.  
     

     

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  6. 15 minutes ago, Poe Tempkin said:

    Unless I'm mistaken this is going in directly behind the Performance Center. If I recall correctly, it will be attached. Cool stuff, and a great looking addition to the Town Center area.

    Yes

    Includes 12,000 sq ft retail/restaurant 

  7. How this for a name:

    Nona was one of the Parcae, the three personifications of destiny in Roman mythology (the Moirai in Greek mythology and in Germanic mythology, the Norns), and the Roman goddess of pregnancy. The Roman equivalent of the Greek Clotho, she spun the thread of life from her distaffonto her spindle. Nona, whose name means "ninth", was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was due to be born.[1][2]

  8. +1 for LN

    Lake Nona is in the city limits and adjacent to one of the largest economic engines in the state.  It arguably has and is building the most technologically advanced transportation network in the country, with self driving automobiles within walking distance to thousands of homes, apartments, two hospitals, an outdoor adventure park (wake boarding, ball fields) and a growing town center, with expansion planned.  And a drone/air taxi system in advance planning to the space coast and other cities.  
     

    it’s Orlando’s nascent answer to Austin. The research triangle, and Silicon Valley and is only getting better with seemingly weekly news job announcements.

    Paying tolls on the 417, will soon be no different than tolls on I-4, and 417 is a straight shot to the Disney area, with easy access to most other parts of town.  And closer to the Atlantic beaches. 

    Art is in the community’s DNA, good public schools, and has partnerships with community institutions,.

    It’s a diverse community and doesn’t have the historical stigma of segregation that places like downtown and winter park do, as Lake Nona ‘s neighborhoods have always been welcoming to all.

     

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  9. 10 hours ago, prahaboheme said:

    This is climate denial.

    We aren’t talking about Baldwin.

     

    Ha, you can’t have open space in Florida?  Wouldn’t most locals agree that the climate here in Orlando is nearly perfect six months of the year?

    I am talking about neighborhoods near Orlando’s core, which these are.

    Being a great outdoor city is a stated goal of Orlando and this green space not only contributes to that vision but offers an additional amenity that is lacking near the core of the city.

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  10. The open green space at Baldwin park gets used all the time.  Soccer, football, boot camps, frisbee, etc.  
    with all those dorms and apartments, sure it will get plenty of use.

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