Lake Nona

a.k.a. “Medical City”

“A brilliantly designed 7000 acre, master-planned community located within the city limits of Orlando”.

Orlando’s Medical City is a big step toward critical mass for the state’s biotech initiative.  The superstar line up:

1. Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Focus:  Research into diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer and drug discoveries. Burnham is one of only four NIH comprehensive centers for chemical biology and drug discovery in the nation.  One of Burnham’s research areas at Lake Non a uses a $12 million robotic “Ultra High Throughput Chemical Screening System”  that can screen more than 2 million chemical compounds per day. Ultimately, more than 300 scientists will work at Burnham Institute in Orlando.

2. University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences
The first 41 member class began studies in 2009, all with fully funded scholarships at the UCF campus.  There are also plans to relocate UCF’s College of Nursing to Lake Nona.

3. Nemours Children’s Hospital
The hospital will have 95 beds.  The 60-acre health campus will feature a children’s outpatient specialty clinic, an emergency department, and education and research centers.

4. Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The hospital will serve more than 400,000 veterans in central Florida with 134 hospital beds, 120 community living center beds, and an outpatient clinic.  The center also has a 60-bed residential rehabilitation program.

5. University of Florida Academic and Research Center
The center will house a Comprehensive Drug Development Center, including a Ph.D program; a College of Pharmacy that will move from Apopka, and 15 biomedical research laboratories.

6. M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Institute
The institute will move to 30,000 square feet on the fifth floor of UCF’s Burnett School building paying the university $2.5 million to occupy space for up to five years as M.D. Anderson Orlando plans and builds a freestanding research facility at Medical City.  The institute includes 25 researchers and could triple in size after the freestanding facility is constructed.

The fact that so many medical and biomedical facilities are opening in one community in Florida within two years of each other would be noteworthy by itself.  The fact that they are opening on one parcel of land, in a coordinated fashion, with a collaborative mission, is even more significant – of both Orlando and the state.

The state of Florida and local communities have invested around a billion dollars of the public’s money in nudging Florida’s economy out of its traditional cheap-land, cheap-labor development.   Lake Nona is heralded as having a greater economic effect on central Florida than Disney did in the 1970’s.

 

Lake Nona Real Estate

 

With the relocation of thousands of medical personnel, the real estate market is alive and well in Lake Nona.   Every day more businesses migrate to Lake Nona.  The community has shopping, YMCA, restaurants, churches of all denominations, and is located between 528 and 417 for easy commuting anywhere in central Florida.  The two zip codes of Lake Nona are 32837 and 32832, but the city is still Orlando mailing address.  Each individual community has it’s own personality, offering something for everyone.   Please shop our website MLS search engine to see the homes in the following subdivisions:

East Park
North Shore at Lake Hart
Moss Park Commons
Veranda at Lake Hart
Enclave at Moss Park
La Vina
Lakes at East Park
Isle of Pine
Nona Crest
Live Oak Estates
Villages of South Port
Village Walk at Lake Nona
Waters Edge at Lake Nona
Northlake Park at late Nona
Morningside at Lake Nona
Lake Nona Country Club
Lake Nona Estates
Eagle Creek