Category: Orlando News

A new home for the Holocaust Center for Hope & Humanity is moving forward in downtown Orlando.

The Orlando Appearance Review Board unanimously approved the center's new design. Groundbreaking is now planned for early 2027, moved from the end of 2026.

The 63 million project would repurpose the 1968 former chamber of commerce office building in downtown's Ivanhoe district and add a 10,000 square foot exhibition hall to the east, for 25,345 square feet in total, about 3.5 times the current space. An earlier 44,500 square foot plan at 75 S. Ivanhoe Blvd was dropped as not financially feasible.

A perforated metal screen on the building is designed to reflect the diaspora of Holocaust survivors. A new core exhibit, "Hope & Humanity," would tell the stories of 10 survivors who settled in Central Florida. The architect is Maurizio Maso of HuntonBrady.

CEO Tim Roberts says construction documents are on track for mid-November, then go to the city for permitting.

Rendering: Lornec Design

Source: GrowthSpotter

Apopka — D.R. Horton’s multifamily arm is bringing Ascend to Floridian Town Center, west of SR 429 and north of Southfork Road.

Plans keep 312 apartments in three-story buildings with a clubhouse and pool on about 15.3 acres in the southern residential parcel. Slocum Platts Architects designed the elevations. The team still owes Apopka responses on parking, fire access, and utilities after a soft Development Review Committee pass, then Planning Commission and City Council before anything is final.

Floridian Town Center is the larger mixed-use site with shops, restaurants, and a hotel in the long-range mix. Northern residential land would need its own approval later.

Rendering: Slocum Platts Architects

Source: GrowthSpotter

Pulte files 1,055 homes at Sunbridge.

Pulte Neighborhood 11 at Sunbridge covers about 1,055 homes on about 401 acres in Orange County. Five phases. About 174 homesites in phase one. Gated. A possible second Del Webb community is unconfirmed.

Photo: Tavistock Development Company

Source: GrowthSpotter