Walt Disney World Resort has decided to address Florida’s affordable housing crisis with a community of its own. The venture, resting on an 80-acre parcel, will offer 1,300 affordable housing units.
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.