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Narcoossee investor looking to expand commercial site at Cyrils | GrowthSpotter

By LAURA KINSLER | lkinsler@growthspotter.com | GrowthSpotter | December 7, 2023 at 4:23 p.m.

An Orlando company that specializing in managing affordable housing communities bought a prime commercial lot on Narcoossee Road in November and is looking to expand the site. County planners are worried that the goal is to use the Live Local Act if the property gets rezoned.

Photenie Burnett with the county’s long term planning office told the applicant that “people would go nuts” if they found out the buyer wanted to build low-income housing in the Narcoossee Overlay.

The buyer, Sunbridge at Lake Nona LLC, paid $4.5 million for the 9.3-acre commercial parcel at the northeast intersection of Narcoossee Road and Cyrils Drive — just north of where a new Publix-anchored shopping center is underway. The company is led by Kenneth Dixon, president of Leland Enterprises, a multifamily management firm specializing in affordable housing. Dixon did not respond to multiple inquiries from GrowthSpotter, and his broker declined to speak about the intended use.

Daryl Carter, who sold the property and is developing the Publix center, told GrowthSpotter he was not aware of the buyer’s plan for the site. There was no deed restriction attached to the sale.

Read the entire article here:  https://www.growthspotter.com/2023/12/07/narcoossee-investor-looking-to-expand-commercial-site-at-cyrils/

One of Orlando’s busiest homebuilders has a new project in the works near Lake Nona | Orlando Business Journal

Co-brokered by Maury L. Carter & Associates, Inc. and Dowd Properties.

By Steven Ryzewski – Staff Writer, Orlando Business Journal
Nov 17, 2023 | Updated Nov 21, 2023 9:01am EST

One of metro Orlando’s busiest homebuilders is eyeing a new project near one of the region’s most anticipated retail developments.

A request was filed Nov. 14 in Orange County to build 74 townhomes at 14736 and 14748 Happy Lane, on about nine acres east of Boggy Creek Road and south of State Road 417/Central Florida GreeneWay, near Lake Nona.

Why is PulteGroup’s pursuit of a 74-home townhome community near Lake Nona significant?

On top of creating new housing inventory, the project’s proposed location is noteworthy because of the wave of development it is nearby. The Boggy Creek Road corridor south of Orlando International Airport has attracted hundreds of millions worth of new development in recent years, with veteran land brokers Daryl Carter and Jim Dowd among those with assemblages in the area.

“Activity begets activity,” Carter previously told Orlando Business Journal.

Read entire article here: https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2023/11/17/lake-nona-boggy-creek-kimley-horn-pulte-new-homes.html