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Scott PowersNovember 18, 2019

The long-awaited study recommending a path for the proposed Osceola Parkway extension will be unveiled this week, bringing more focus to what may happen to the Split Oak park, existing neighborhoods in southern Orange and northern Osceola counties, major developments in the region, and longterm transportation connectivity from there to Brevard County and the Space […]

Scott PowersMarch 8, 2018

In a move with long-range ramifications for huge developments in Central Florida, road networks linking to the Space Coast, and promises assumed in the state’s nature preservation efforts, the Central Florida Expressway Authority Thursday moved ahead with a study of how best to push a new road through or around the state’s Split Oak Forest […]

Scott PowersJanuary 26, 2018

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, […]

Michael MolineNovember 14, 2016

Citrus greening may chase one of Florida’s largest landowners out of that industry. “We’re going to shift out if it and transition, probably, to cattle production,” Erik Jacobsen, president of Deseret Ranches, said in a speech in Tallahassee Monday to the Economic Club of Florida. Deseret, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter […]

Scott PowersMarch 22, 2016

A nearly 24,000-acre mixed-use development plan was announced Monday for two areas of Orange and Osceola counties that are rural holdings for the Mormon Church. Tavistock Development Co., which developed the nearby Lake Nona and Lake Nona Medical City projects in Orlando, submitted plans to Orange County on Monday to develop 4,787 acres off State […]

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Osceola Parkway and Split Oak road recommendations to be revealed

Central Florida Expressway Authority moves ahead with study of contentious Split Oak road

Orlando Amazon bid pitched Creative Village, Orlando Sentinel, Lake Nona, Tupperware, NeoCity sites

Blaming greening, Deseret Ranches foresees the end of its citrus production

New 24,000-acre development announced for Mormon lands in Orange, Osceola counties