Private investment firm Duvalla Investments teamed up with Epoch Residential to purchase Sea Harbor Office Center, a Class A office building directly across from SeaWorld. The joint venture team closed the $17 million sale last Friday after receiving zoning approvals to demolish the 359,514-square-foot building and construct nearly 700 new apartments on the site.
JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, Northridge Capital, LLC, which had acquired the property in 2015 for $64.7 million. The 8-story office building was the long-time home of Travel + Leisure, but the anchor tenant left the tourism corridor in 2025 for new offices in downtown Orlando, and Northridge wasn’t able to backfill the space.
Originally built in 1984, Sea Harbor Office Center is an eight-story office building featuring institutional-quality finishes, including a full-service cafeteria, state-of-the-art fitness center and two separate entry lobbies with dedicated elevator banks. Northridge received approval in early August for a zoning change on the 14.23-acre site to swap out the office use for as many as 1,124 multi-family units.
The property includes a five-story structured parking garage with 1,250 spaces, an additional 380 surface parking spaces, and a private road connection to Westwood Boulevard.
The owner of the Sea Harbor Office Center, outlined in red, sought a zoning change to allow for multifamily housing on the site. (Orange County Property Appraiser)
“Sea Harbor Office Center represented a unique opportunity in Orlando’s highest-performing office submarket,” said JLL’s Robbie McEwan, who led the sales team. “The property’s institutional quality, significant structured parking and flexible zoning on a 14-acre site provide exceptional optionality for a value-add investor or redevelopment opportunity.” JLL Director Tucker Brooks and Associate Jesse Jones worked alongside McEwan.
Duvalla and Epoch submitted an updated development plan on Aug. 28 for the project, dubbed SeaWorld Vacation Village.
Plans for the Orlando property call for a two-phased development with five-story residential buildings wrapping and bookending the existing parking garage on the east and west sides. The first building, located on the west and south of the garage, would have 360 units. Phase 2 includes the east building, with 319 units.
An image from development plans recently submitted to Orange County for about 14 acres of land directly north of SeaWorld along Sea Harbor Drive near International Drive. The plan would deliver hundreds of new apartments around and existing parking garage on the property. (Image by FK Architecture/Orange County)
The surrounding area is experiencing unprecedented growth, with over 6,400 multifamily units delivered since 2021 and an additional 3,600 units under construction or planned. Just a block north of the Sea Harbor site, Atlanta-based RangeWater Real Estate has filed development plans for a 250-unit apartment community at 6305 Westwood Blvd.
The zoning within the I-Drive Overlay would allow both short-term and long-term rentals. The site is within walking distance of the Orange County Convention Center, which is undergoing a $560 million expansion.
SeaWorld, which owns nearly 40 acres of vacant land next to the office complex on Sea Harbor Drive, is also contemplating multifamily development as a potential use for its surplus land. The theme park company quietly withdrew plans last year for two proposed, park-adjacent hotels nearby.
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