Giovanni Fernandez needed a name.
The owner of Orlando-based developer National Real Estate LLC wanted to transform a building northeast of Bumby Avenue and Curry Ford Road to revitalize an older neighborhood near downtown. He and project architect Ryan Young of Orlando-based design/builder Interstruct Inc., looked at a map and noticed a nearby lake with two vertically stacked ovals. So, as a placeholder, Fernandez called the area the Hourglass District.
It stuck.
“Quickly everyone in the community started saying they were living in the Hourglass District,” Fernandez told Orlando Business Journal.