The remaining days of April will be extremely busy for Atlee Mercer. The former county commissioner and chairman of the Osceola County Expressway Authority (OCX) is waiting for Saturday’s official opening of the northern end of Poinciana Parkway, the first leg in the tolled beltway around the southern end of its urban area.
Osceola’s Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center has changed a lot since it started vertical construction a little more than a month ago. What began from just moving dirt around last year on the site near U.S. 192 and Florida’s Turnpike in Kissimmee is now noticeably a large building that will be built with lots of steel and…
If you’re a medical professional in the areas of dermatology, urology, mental health or weight management, Kissimmee officials want to speak with you. Those are the medical specialties the city is lacking, and ones it hopes will come to the area as part of the city’s proposed Medical Arts District project that aims to create…
The International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research is steadily making strides to build up its Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center in Osceola County. This time, the organization is eyeing a partnership with a nano-technology firm.
iCAMR CEO: ‘Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center will be a think tank for small and big businesses’ Chester Kennedy didn’t pay attention when the initial rumblings began about Osceola County and the University of Central Florida wanting to create a high-tech, smart sensor facility. But that changed once the former Lockheed Martin Corp. executive noticed how it could greatly impact…
What began as a two-story, 30-bed hospital about two and a half years ago in Osceola County is now a four-story, 76-bed hospital. Poinciana Medical Center on Nov. 17 opened two more floors and 46 new private-patient beds across 40,000 square feet. The hospital, owned by HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA), announced its plans for the $26 million expansion in June…
Air Flamenco, a mainstay of air travel in the Caribbean, will open a satellite base of operations at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) early next year. Rubén Torres, who founded the Puerto Rico-based airline in 1976, now lives in Kissimmee and has a deal to co-locate with Quantem, a fixed-base operator at the municipal airport. The airline…
October 15, 2015 (Kissimmee, FL) -The City of Kissimmee’s Economic Development Office announced today that Infinity Medical Engineering will open their business in the City by the end of this year. Infinity Medical Engineering, a medical device research, development and manufacturing company, will open at 301 Church Street, near historic downtown Kissimmee, and will house a 10,000…
New hotels are just one element of the longterm master plan for Osceola Heritage Park. Don Miers, the county’s director of sports facilities, told GrowthSpotter that for months, county planners have “been dabbling with different concepts of what a master plan could look like.” The 168-acre park on U.S. 192 houses the 11,000-seat arena, the Houston Astros training…
Kissimmee-based developer George Chen should break ground within a few weeks on a $6 million winery, botanical gardens and event space in partnership with Florida’s Island Grove Wine Company, an attraction he hopes oenophiles and nature-lovers will flock to while visiting the W192 tourism corridor. Based on 11 acres on the northeast corner of Funie…