Scott PowersSeptember 20, 2019
6min560
Fighting eviction notices from VA hospitals
Tag: Lake Nona
Scott PowersSeptember 20, 2019Scott PowersSeptember 12, 2019
6min959
'The VA doesn't want us breathing down their neck'
Scott PowersJune 24, 2019
4min630
Dyer says Orlando 'will own the future.'
Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2019
4min597
The first two driverless shuttle buses are expected to start operating this spring.
Scott PowersJanuary 14, 2019
8min233
Florida’s economy might not be booming as robustly in 2019 as the past couple of years but talk nationwide of a possible recession this year probably won’t slow the state down too much. That’s the theme of the economic forecasts presented Monday morning at the Florida Chamber Foundation’s Economic Outlook and Jobs Summit in Orlando, with […]
Scott PowersJanuary 26, 2018
7min284
Illustrating a notion that you can never offer too many options, much of the proposal that Orlando economic officials had put together for the failed bid to win the second headquarters for Amazon pitched numerous properties downtown including near the soccer stadium and the Orlando Sentinel property, along with other prospects in Lake Nona, Sunbridge, […]
Scott PowersJanuary 23, 2018
11min668
After watching the county’s biggest tax incentives package turn into its biggest economic development bust, Orange County on Tuesday began in-depth deliberations with at least two and possibly more players offering to salvage a heavily-subsidized Lake Nona biomedical research laboratory that is soon to be departed by Sanford Burnham Prebys. On Tuesday the Orange County […]
Scott PowersApril 12, 2017
6min184
Surrounded by what’s billed as the world’s new center for tennis but yet also almost in the shadow of a failed medical research center, Gov. Rick Scott brought his plea for salvation for Enterprise Florida and VISIT Florida to Orlando’s Lake Nona community Wednesday – urging pressure on the mostly-Republican group of lawmakers set to […]
Terry RoenNovember 1, 20165min218
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute has two weeks to return $77.6 million in taxpayer money it received as an incentive to build a Central Florida research center. However, the nonprofit research center has balked at the demand and claims they should not be required to repay the state. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity […]
Scott PowersMay 5, 2016
3min443
The United States Professional Tennis Association and developers of Lake Nona have closed the deal that will bring the organization’s national headquarters to Orlando. Tavistock Development Co. and the UPTA jointly announced Thursday that the deal is complete, and the lease signed for the 15,000-member professional tennis association to set up shop at big Lake […]