Rollins College will soon be home to a new theater. It’s called the Tiedtke Theater & Dance Centre, named for Philip and Sigrid Tiedkte, who donated $5 million to make the venture possible. Construction started in November 2021, with OHL Building, Inc. operating as the general contractor. Construction’s anticipated to end in the fourth quarter of 2022.
AdventHealth Training Center is nearing completion in Orlando, Florida. The multi-million-dollar project is a partnership between the Orlando Magic and AdventHealth. In 2020, the Orlando Sentinel-Orange County Edition noted that the facility would comprise more than 100,000 square feet.
The Grove Resort & Water Park is one of Central Florida’s many vacation spots, just six miles away from Walt Disney World Resort. Now, an expansion’s underway, offering 160 vacation units, per the West Orange Times. The venture’s website calls the expansion: “The best of both worlds in vacation home ownership.”
An obstruction evaluation study is currently underway at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a 454-foot-tall skyscraper at 1000 North Orange Avenue in the northern section of Downtown Orlando’s Central Business District. The four coordinates submitted to the FAA align with a vacant 1.474-acre site that sits on the southwest frontage of the intersection between North Orange Avenue and North Garland Avenue, also bound by West Marks Street and SunRail tracks on the south end of the block. According to the Orange County property records, the land is owned by a Hallandale Beach-based entity registered as Mustang Orange Garland LLC (Mustang) managed by Aaron Churba and Mike Daiagi. The entity, which is linked to a number of other financial and investment entities using the Mustang moniker, has owned the property since January 2005 after purchasing it from Orange Garland Realty Ent LLC for a $3,000,000.
YIMBY recently checked in on the progress of a 9-story office tower and parking garage under construction at The City Center in O-Town West, a mixed-use community located in Orlando’s southwest corridor between the Walt Disney and Universal Orlando markets fronting Interstate-4. Designed and engineered by Apopka-based Finfrock, who is also the precast concrete manufacturer & installer and the general contractor, and developed by Orlando-based Unicorp National Developments, the new tower will yield 350,000 square feet of Class-A office space fit for over 1600 daily employees, and will become the new headquarters for Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp. The 7.127-acre City Center development site, addressed as 7800 Palm Parkway according to property records, is located at the crossing between Daryl Carter Parkway and Palm Parkway, and will additionally yield a 160-key Zen Hotel, nearly 23,000 square feet of commercial space and a parking structure for over 2000 vehicles.
