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Where the Best Invest!
The City of Winter Garden is excited about the latest redevelopment of the existing 8.2-acre People’s Plaza Shopping Center located on West Colonial Drive. The new Garden Plaza facility will feature two buildings encompassing approximately 140,000 square feet of office and retail space and a third building which is expected to house a 90-room hotel. The project is being spearheaded by John Hussey, President of RealTrend, Inc.
“We are meeting a need with the community,” said Hussey, which currently has no Class A office space available or hotel space for the business traveler. The demand is high and Winter Garden is centrally located to take advantage of the demand with this type of product.”
Garden Plaza’s Mediterranean style is consistent with many of the architectural features found in Winter Garden. The cupolas are replicas of downtown’s gateway to the West Orange Trail and are fast becoming Winter Garden’s icon. Amenities will include a courtyard with a fountain and an outdoor conference center with wireless Internet access.
For more information about Garden Plaza, call Shelly Weidenhamer, Economic Development Director, at (407) 656-4111, extension 2308.
The new Garden Plaza facility
Square Footage Estimates 2006-2016
| DOWNTOWN | ||
| 30,000 sf | City Hall (In design) | Plant |
| 36,000 sf | Rodney Jolly (In land development) | Plant |
| 6,000 sf | Randy June (Under construction) | Plant |
| 29,000 sf | Trail Side (Under construction) | Plant |
| 28,000 sf | Winter Garden Executive Center (In land development) | Dillard |
| 129,000 sf | SUB TOTAL | |
| 47,000 sf | Pland & Dillard (In negotiations) | |
| 176,000 sf | TOTAL | |
| OFFICE | ||
| 140,000 sf | Garden Plaza (In land development) | SR 50 |
| 111,000 sf | Daniels Commerce Center (In land dev.) | Daniels Rd. |
| 40,000 sf | Dillard Commons | Dillard |
| 291,000 sf | TOTAL | |
| INDUSTRIAL FLEX | ||
| 105,000 sf | Apex Commerce Center I, II, III (Under construction) | Crown Point |
| 11,000 sf | Winter Garden Business Park (Completed) | SR 50 |
| 250,000 sf | Winter Garden Technology Park (In land dev.) | Story Road |
| 96,000 sf | West Orange Business Center (Todd South) | WG/Vineland |
| 312,000 sf | TOTAL | |
| RETAIL | ||
| 1.1 Million sf | Fowler Groves Regional Center (under construction) | |
| 189,500 sf | Stoneybrook & Avalon – neighborhood commercial | |
| 101,500 sf | Bear Furniture & Retail – neighborhood commercial | |
| 1.3 Million sf | TOTAL |
OTHER
Two—60 Room hotels
317 seat live performance theater
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
600,000 to 700,000 sf Office Park
Next 5 years over 2.2 million square feet of mixed use, office, industrial and retail
Next 10 years over 1 million square feet of office
Over $50 million in Downtown Winter Garden Investment – estimated figures:
$5 million initial Plant Street Improvements
$14 million City Hall – Furniture, Equipment etc.
$5.4 million Rodney Jolly
$1 million Randy June
$1 million Randy June – Bldg 2
$3 million Randy June – Bldg 3
$4.3 million Trail Side
$4.2 WG Executive Center
$3.5 million WG Theatre
$7 million Plant & Dillard
$3 million – Phase II parking lot and streetscape
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