Listing the staggering number of new retail and entertainment developments in the pipeline for the once-rural Lake Nona neighborhood could wind an auctioneer.
An inflatable waterpark. A brewery. A container park. A 60-foot-tall ropes course. A wakeboard cable park. Beach volleyball courts. A high-end movie theater. A man-made, 15 acre crystal lagoon. Two hotels. A Tesla ride-sharing program. A comedy club. Indoor soccer.
Orlando’s rapidly growing master-planned community is hurtling toward a new phase of its evolution. It’s the vital next step when a neighborhood graduates from a place you go to work or sleep into a place you go to play.