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<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\nThe man behind the plan says it’s a major step that’s been years in the making.<\/p>\n
Parramore native Timothy Green is proposing to build an urban smart city in the historic Orlando neighborhood. He says it would bring everything from jobs to transportation.<\/p>\n
Green is the lead developer and founder of Green District Smart City in Parramore, proposing a plan that was filed with the city on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n
He says it’s a major step in bringing much-needed housing, economic development, training, jobs, and more to Parramore.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to have affordable condos on each level,” he said. “We’re talking 2,000 residential units coming to the market, 700, almost 800 hotel keys, we’re talking over half a million square feet of attraction space, retail space like museums, performing arts center, food courts.”<\/p>\n
Plus, a 40,000-square-foot grocery store, and parking.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re going to try to solve that problem by building a 700-parking space here that we’ll split up between the public and OPD,” he said, also proposing a vertiport for electrically powered aircraft. <\/p>\n
Jeff Palmer is co -owner of Palmer’s Feed and Seed, a business that’s been in Parramore for nearly 80 years.<\/p>\n
He’s familiar with the plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think any time you can bring more people and commerce to the area and traffic to the area, it’s good for the local businesses,\u201d Jeff Palmer told WESH 2 News.<\/p>\n
Green said the project is 20 acres and growing, to be built within the industrial area from Church Street to Westmoreland and down to Clearlake Road.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to be making an economic impact of about $900 million to a billion dollars annually based on the jobs and what this development means to the community and taxes too.\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Parramore, and still living here, Timothy Green said he wants to give back.<\/p>\n
“God gave me an opportunity to better myself and to be a great developer and that wasn’t just for myself, I’m walking in my purpose and my purpose is to better my community,” he said.<\/p>\n
Right now, the urban smart city plan is going through an administrative process with the city.<\/p>\n
Green has filed under Florida’s Live Local Act, a state law designed to expand the supply of affordable and workforce housing by allowing more types of residential developments in areas zoned for commercial or industrial use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parramore native proposes ‘smart city’ transformation for historic Orlando neighborhood ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The man behind the plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-369051","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\/369051","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=369051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}