Angelica McKinney - Realtor

02/14/2023

02/07/2023

Final walk through day!
Maronda Home with over 2300 sq ft. 4 bedroom/ 3 bath with one of the bedrooms on the first floor, great for guests or in laws.

So happy for my buyers who will make it their home.

01/03/2023

"Osceola Regional Medical Center continues to expand its emergency services beyond Kissimmee with plans for its fourth free-standing emergency room on U.S. 192 in St. Cloud.

The HCA-owned hospital has filed plans with the City of St. Cloud for a 10,860-square-foot emergency center in the St. Cloud Marketplace shopping center just east of Narcoossee Road. The site plan approval went to the city’s Development Review Committee on Dec.8.

RRB Partners is developing the 10-acre site, which also will be home to a 10,000-square-foot Learning Experience daycare center, a sit-down restaurant, a quick-service restaurant, a drive-thru coffee concept and a multi-tenant retail building. Marco’s Pizza and Jeremiah’s Italien Ice have already signed leases for the multi-tenant building, according to Alexie Fonseca with Colliers International. The leasing team is in discussions with various users for the remaining 3.3-acre lot, which could be for a senior living or multifamily concept or a big-box retail user, she added.

Osceola Regional Medical Center is under contract to buy the 1.5-acre lot in St. Cloud Marketplace for an 11-room free-standing emergency room.
Osceola Regional Medical Center is under contract to buy the 1.5-acre lot in St. Cloud Marketplace for an 11-room free-standing emergency room. (Kimley Horn)
ORMC is slated for the 1.5-acre retail pad at the northwest corner of the site at U.S. 192 and Live Oak Boulevard, according to the plans. ORMC also operates FSERs in Hunter’s Creek and near Mall at Millenia, and it is currently building one in Lee Vista just north of the Orlando Internationa Airport scheduled to open in 2023.

Catalyst Design Group submitted the site plan, while Hereford Dooley Architects provided elevations for the one-story building using a prototype design similar to one under construction in Lee Vista. The prototype contains a waiting room, 11 exam rooms, a lab, an imaging department, a nurse station, restrooms, and associated support spaces. The building has two covered entry canopies, one for emergency vehicle access/drop off and one for public drop off.

HCA emergency rooms tend to be smaller than those built by Orlando Health and AdventHealth. A prototype building will generally be just under 11,000 square feet and could cost anywhere from $6-10 million. The location just east of Narcoossee Road is 3.7 miles from Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital, which expanded its own emergency room in 2018, and 7 miles from the nearest free-standing emergency room in AdventHealth’s Partin Settlement campus.

The Nashville-based healthcare company is also in the midst of a $9.9 million expansion at HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital that will double the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit capacity from six to 12 beds, and add 18 additional inpatient medical/surgical beds. That facility completed construction of its first freestanding emergency room in 2021— HCA Florida ChampionsGate Emergency — and has purchased land on U.S. 27 in Haines City for another FSER.

St. Cloud Marketplace is surrounded by new residential development. Next door, the Thompson Grove development also has 10 acres of land with Highway Business zoning on U.S. 192, while D.R. Horton is building a residential neighborhood just south of it. Pulte Homes’ Live Oak Lake community is just east of Thompson Grove and also has commercial frontage on E192 and will be adding a second phase in 2023.

Right across the street, Atlanta-based Hathaway Group plans to build a mixed-use development with retail and a 300-unit apartment community. The plan includes a new traffic signal at Puffin Road, which will be extended to Lillian Lee Road. The St. Cloud City Council approved a conditional use permit in September that allows the multifamily development on land zoned for highway business."

The facility will have 11 exam rooms, a lab and nurses's station to bring emergency treatment to the fast-growing Narcoossee corridor and Harmony area in Osceola County.

11/24/2022

Wishing you a harvest of blessings, good health and good times.

10/06/2022

There have been lots of rumors of what is moving into the outparcels at St. Cloud Commons, near the U.S. 192 - Florida’s Turnpike interchange. They are FirstWatch, Pollo Campero, Mattress Firm, and DECA Dental. The two eateries scheduled to move in are First Watch, a Florida-based restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch (there's a Lake Nona location), and Pollo Campero, a beloved Guatamalen chicken chain. There you have it folks!

09/08/2022

"The Orlando Sun Resort that for years signified blight on Osceola County’s busiest tourist corridor could finally be moving toward a sale that would bring transformational change to W192.

Aventura-based Meyers Group Vice Chairman Robert Shapiro confirmed to GrowthSpotter that his company has a purchase contract on the 77-acre site and has pulled together a conceptual master plan for a massive new mixed-use entertainment district. The plan was displayed at the ICSC conference this week in Orlando.

Owned by Fortuna Realty in New York, the one-time Hyatt resort is in a prime location at the northeast quadrant of I-4 and W192. Built in 1974, the sprawling two-story motel sits right across from Celebration and minutes from Disney. It’s the kind of location which Osceola’s W192 Development Authority created its catalyst site incentive grant for, and this one could be eligible for $1.5 million from the authority.

The developer had an off-book pre-application meeting with Osceola County’s planning staff and has sought a zoning verification letter.

Meyers Group and RSP Architects displayed the conceptual master plan at their booth during the ICSC conference this week. (RSP Architects)
Meyers Group is calling the project Park Place and working with RSP Architects on the master site planning. The plan calls for 1,150 residential units spread among four buildings — each 8 stories tall — with another 120,000 square feet of retail and restaurants.

There’s also a 46,000-square-foot movie theater, a 15,000-square-foot food hall and 7-story, 348-key hotel with retail and dining on the ground level. The plan shows a 30,000-square-foot office building adjacent to the hotel complex, with a shared parking garage.

A large village green would separate the hotel pod from a separate entertainment center, which would have 105,400 square feet of retail. The northernmost pod would allocate 10 acres for a 110,000-square-foot entertainment venue. Shapiro said they are in discussions with Andretti Indoor Karting & Games to build a second location there.

The 3.5-acre strip between the Parkway and Arabian Nights boulevards would feature one of three restaurant outparcels and a 15,000-square-foot food hall modeled after the one at Yard at Ivanhoe. It would enhance the dining hub at Parkway, which is home to Kobe Steaks and Charley's. (RSP Architects)
Shapiro said the plans are still very preliminary and that he is in discussions almost daily with the seller. The biggest hurdle seems to be traffic circulation, as the site has just two access points at Parkway Boulevard and Arabian Nights Boulevard. Both are signalized intersections with dual left-turn lanes, but they may not be able to accommodate the additional vehicle trips from such a large-scale development with parking for over 3,500 vehicles.

Meyers Group has engaged Kimley Horn to conduct a traffic study in consultation with the Florida Department of Transportation, Shapiro said. The primary concern would be the stacking of vehicles on U.S. 192 waiting to make a left turn into the project at Parkway Boulevard.

Fortuna acquired the asset in 2004 with entitlements for more than 4 million square feet of mixed-use development consisting of multifamily, hotel, entertainment and retail uses. It has been on the market since 2018, when the owners settled the outstanding code violations and rezoned it to Commercial Tourist. It would likely have to be rezoned again to comply with the updated Community Center Core future land use.

Meyer Group and Kimco Realty Corp. co-developed the $800 million Dania Pointe shopping and entertainment complex in Broward County. (Kimco Realty Corp / Courtesy)
Last year, New York-based CSC Coliving Co-Founder Sal Smeke said he was in negotiations to buy the asset for $35 million and planned to convert all 960 rooms into studio apartments. Smeke backed out of the deal over the county’s $12,165 per unit school impact fee, which would have added $12 million to the project cost.

Meyers Group founder Stuart Meyers has developed over 20,000 apartments over his more than 50-year career, including the mixed-use Dania Pointe, which was co-developed by Kimco Realty. Earlier this year, the company formed a joint venture with Hallandale Beach-based Accesso, which is known for owning office towers and multifamily projects. The JV formed Meyers Group Partners with the goal of developing 5,000 market-rate apartment units and 1.5 million square feet of retail and office space throughout Florida.

Christina Morris, executive director of the W192 Development Authority, said the community redevelopment agency is sunsetting next month, so the future of the Catalyst Grant program is uncertain. The county has allocated $3 million into a building fund for projects on the corridor, but the administration wants to direct future funds and grants to transportation-related improvements, she said

Morris said the Orlando Sun is such a high-profile location she would expect the county to provide some financial incentives under a retooled grant. “It’s such a cool project,” she said. “I’m sure we could sit down and talk about what we could do. I could definitely see some assistance as they demo the hotel.”

The South Florida developer wants to build over 1,000 apartments, a new hotel, shopping and entertainment venues across from Disney's Celebration.

08/10/2022

Osceola Commissioners want to expand architectural standards for new home construction across the county

"Osceola commissioners stood firm on the new standard that prohibits front-loaded townhomes in the mixed-use districts. They will be permitted in other parts of the county. (Osceola County)

Osceola Commissioners may have the three votes needed to implement costly new architectural standards for all new home construction across the county, based on discussions Monday during a board workshop.

Ray Stangle, the county’s community development administrator, presented the revised ordinance draft that would set strict guidelines intended to elevate the quality of new homes being built in the county. The staff had recommended limiting the new standards to mixed-use districts, but commissioners had other ideas.

“I guess I think this is so good for this that I think this should be implemented across the county for anything that doesn’t have a building permit,” Chairman Brandon Arrington said. “I think everything should have standards for the entire county that we want the new developments throughout the county. So I guess I’m hoping that we will have as a Board to take this across the table.”

Commissioners Viviana Janer and Cheryle Grieb asked for more information on the projected cost of implementing the standards and options for allowing flexibility for affordable housing.

Osceola staff compromised with homebuilders on the standards for double garage doors, allowing for enhancements such as coach lights, trim and windows. (Osceola County)
But Commissioner Ricky Booth said he was less concerned with the short-term cost to builders than with the long-term value of homes built in Osceola. “I’m totally on board with going countywide on this,” Booth said.

After a series of meetings with some of the region’s most prolific homebuilders, Osceola staff scaled back some of the recommendations in the ordinance, which has already been attached as a condition on five developments located in mixed-use districts.

The Greater Orlando Builders Association tabbed the projected cost of implementing the initial standards at $40,000 per home.

“These onerous, arbitrary, and often conflicting and unworkable new design and architectural standards are not being driven by market dynamics, customer choice or demand,” GOBA legislative director Raleigh Steinhauer said. “But instead, are being mandated by the design whims and preferences of others, who will neither live with nor be forced to foot the bill for them. We strongly urge the County to reconsider moving forward with these costly and unnecessary new requirements.”

Staff did walk back some of the provisions, including one that would have prohibited double-wide garage doors on homes with 50-foot lots, after pushback from the county’s Growth Management Task Force.

“We’re looking for the garage not to be the prominent feature on the front of the house,” Stangle said.

Instead of requiring builders to use recessed windows on second-story homes, the county will require banding or shutters. (Osceola County)
Instead, the draft ordinance allows a compromise suggested by the task force — that double doors be permitted if they are enhanced with coach lights on each side and decorative trim. Commissioners asked that garage doors with windows be added as an option for meeting the standard. For any home design with a three-car garage, the third door must be recessed at least two feet behind the other two.

The revised draft also reduces the minimum size for roof eaves and soffits from 16 inches to 12 inches after several homebuilders complained that the larger size wasn’t the industry standard and would have required them to use custom-built roof trusses.

“The builders showed us some examples of homes with 12-inch eaves, and we liked what we saw,” Stangle said.

But it kept the most controversial rule that prohibits townhomes with front-facing garages. The new standards also would redefine any building with attached units as a “row home” and cap the number of units at eight. It also would require a variety of exterior facades with different paint colors and materials.

Heather Isaacs, vice president of land development for Taylor Morrison, said the front-loaded townhomes are the most affordable product they offer, and prohibiting them would limit the availability of attainable housing. Rear-loaded townhomes are more expensive to build, and they don’t yield the same amount of units per acre as front-loaded units.

“I think that if the standards are applied countywide that I think there’s going to be a lot of concern from the home building industry, specifically,” she said at the workshop. “Especially when you start looking at national and larger home builders that work off of a regionalized product lineup. You know, in order for us to overcome some of the challenges we’ve had with the supply chains is the house we build here’s the house we build in Tampa, so that we can have economies of scale when we go out and purchase materials and make sure that we’ve got the materials that we need.”

County Commissioners already attached the draft language as conditions on five subdivision projects with a combined 2,006 lots at their May 16 meeting.

Lake Gentry Landings, a 719-unit mixed-use community with a marina that is under contract to Mattamy Homes.
Hickory Village at Lake Gentry: a 554-unit mixed-use development by Resibuilt, an Atlanta-based developer specializing in purpose-built rental communities
Canoe Creek Reserve: a 733-home subdivision on F***y Bass Road by developer Robert Zlatkiss. Two homebuilders, Taylor Morrison and KB Homes are reportedly under contract for those lots.
Providence Pass: a 6-acre parcel on Clay Whaley Road that abuts the CrossPrarie mixed-use district already in development. It is approved for 60 lots.
Whaley Platt: a 750-acre subdivision recently purchased by Tampa-based Metro Development. The community is approved for total of 2,818 homes and will be home to Central Florida’s first public access Crystal Lagoon.
Stangle said that based on the commissioners’ direction, any project within the county’s urban growth boundary would be subject to the rules — even if the developer already has an approved planned development or preliminary subdivision plan, if they seek to make any changes to the PSP.

One exception would be BTI Partners’ Crossprairie project, which was part of the Edgewater DRI, because it has applied for annexation into the City of St. Cloud."

Homebuilders estimate the new standards could add $40,000 to the construction costs for new homes.

08/04/2022

Huge new fitness center coming to Kissimmee’s Gateway Commons

"Fast-growing EoS Fitness will build its newest Orlando area center in Kissimmee's Gateway Station on Osceola Parkway. (JSA Architecture)

Arizona-based EōS Fitness is building on its Florida expansion with plans for a new, 42,000-square-foot fitness center in Kissimmee scheduled to open in 2024.

The company launched a Florida expansion in 2020 with 10 locations, including two in Orlando at Hiawassee and E. Colonial (at Fashion Square Mall). Now it’s branching into Osceola County with plans to build on an undeveloped parcel in Gateway Station, a Walmart-adjacent power center on Osceola Parkway at Michigan Avenue, just off Florida’s Turnpike.

“The city of Orlando has such a vibrant energy, and at EōS, we pride ourselves on having an energy like no other,” COO Richard Idgar said in announcing the Hiawassee gym last fall. “Our team is ready to support members along every step of their fitness journeys, going above and beyond to provide the best fitness experience possible. It’s been one year since we opened our first EōS location in Florida, and we’re overjoyed we’ve been able to establish such great relationships with our members and the communities we serve in Tampa, Sarasota and now, Orlando.”

Louisiana-based PMAT bought the shopping center in 2016 and amended the Planned Unit Development to allow for up to 43,000 square feet of new retail space. PMAT sold the majority of the shopping center in 2019 to Saglo Development, a Miami-based real estate firm, but replatted the property to carve out a 2.4 development site in the northwest corner of the property. At the time, it had a deal with CSL Plasma to build a 12,000-square-foot plasma donation center with 50 beds, but the project never moved forward.

The new 45,000-square-foot fitness center and retail store are planned in the northwest corner of the shopping center. (Zito Russell Architects)
The new plans with EōS more closely resemble the firm’s original vision for the vacant corner. The submitted site plan also shows a 6,692-square-foot retail building between the gym and the existing strip center, but Craig Zetwo with Hanson Walter & Associates told the city’s Development Review Committee the retail building will not be constructed at this time. The plan is to deliver a pad-ready site for future construction.

The DRC approved the project to move forward to construction planning.

The new gym would offer memberships starting at $10 per month. Each EōS center is open 24 hours per day, seven days a week. Members have access to a variety of group fitness and cycle classes, Olympic lifting platforms, a basketball court, an indoor pool, hot tub, separate men’s and women’s saunas, a kids’ club and a recovery room with massage chairs. There will be a 2,500-square-foot dedicated outdoor workout area for CrossFit exercises, such as sled workouts and battle rope.

Another EōS Fitness signature amenity is the MOVEōS Cinema, where members can watch a big screen movie in a theater-like setting while working out.

Orlando and Kissimmee members will have access to the EōS Virtual Reality Fitness Experience, a cutting-edge technology that engages EōS members visually and physically in a virtual world, combining dynamic resistance training and high-intensity cardio with virtual reality gaming technology. Backed by exercise science, but designed for fun and competition, the EōS VR Fitness Experience is exclusive to EōS members.

Other tenants in the center include Harbor Freight, Dollar Tree, Sally Beauty Supply, U.S. Armed Forces recruiting office, Cato and Sanitas."

The new EōS Fitness Center in Kissimmee will be open 24 hours per day, seven days a week.