Osceola County leaders are moving forward with their agreement with the ownership of the Orlando City Soccer Club to expand its footprint at Osceola Heritage Park.<\/p>\n
The county approved just over $25 million in Tourist Development Tax fund reserves as its fiscal 2026 contribution to the plan at Monday\u2019s County Commission meeting.<\/p>\n
The Orlando City MLS team and its Orlando City B minor-league affiliate trains at OHP and Orlando Sports Enterprises (OSE), the corporate owners of the Orlando City MLS and Orlando Pride NWSL soccer franchises, has sights on moving the Pride\u2019s training operations from Seminole County to the Osceola complex.<\/p>\n
As part of Monday\u2019s agreement, OSE will contribute $25 million to match. In November 2025, the two sides signed a Memo of Understanding (MOU)\u00a0 to expand property the team current leases at OHP, and the county sold the team just over seven acres of property along Bill Beck Boulevard to develop a hotel and free-standing restaurant \u2013 what would be the first ones at the expansive property \u2013 that will be operated by K&K Sports, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.<\/p>\n
Some of the additions and improvements include two artificial turf fields in front of Osceola County Stadium available for public booking, conversion of the Stadium’s existing natural grass field to artificial turf and the relocation of light poles to expand the dimensions, improvements to the stadium fa\u00e7ade, property stormwater upgrades and office and training space renovations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe County\u2019s existing structures and property within the Training Center\/Stadium will undergo needed improvements, construction \/ renovations, to enhance their use, update them to today\u2019s standards and to increase interest in the facility as a destination,\u201d county documents suggest.<\/p>\n
OSE will assume responsibility for the day-to-day repair and maintenance and operating costs of the facilities while continuing to make lease payments that will increase 2.5% per year over the 25 years of the agreement.<\/p>\n
Orlando City Soccer Club Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel Caesar Lopez said that with this step now taken, the expansion plans can move forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that we\u2019re through this step, we\u2019re going to have announcements, because we\u2019ll want to make the community informed about every single session,\u201d he said. \u201cThis has been a rigorous process for us to go through and make sure were hearing all of the feedback from the constituents, but also the county leadership as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the agreement, the two sides will spend the next 120 completing and approving site assessments and detailed plans. Expansion on the training center and stadium complex improvements would be the first projects to begin soon after.<\/p>\n
Osceola County Commission Chair Brandon Arrington called Monday\u2019s agreement a \u201csmart investment in our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great day for the county,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be able to utilize that space to bring soccer to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osceola County leaders are moving forward with their agreement with the ownership of the Orlando City Soccer Club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-240175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}