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• The cars can only go about 15 mph but they provide free public transportation for Lake Nona residents and visitors.
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• This year has seen an unprecedented amount of holiday shopping events in Orlando. I’ve been paying attention to this town since 2009 when I started my blog and never, and I mean never have I seen so many pop up this and market that and, well, I love them all. And this one I love the most. Probably because it’s one of the first ones I attended years ago and because it’s weird. Grandma Party is a shopping event with kick and pizazz. It’s not upscale spider plants in beaded macramé hangers class-a-frass, it’s not redneck mee-maw oven mitt Lularoe hot garbage, it’s just, how do you say … Grandma Party. Go see it Sunday starting at 10 at Stardust …
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• It will also act as a research hub between the UCF School of Medicine and HCA hospitals nationwide.
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• It’s golf, but not as you know it. Intersection tours Drive Shack, a multi level driving range on the outskirts of Lake Nona.
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• The first phase of a new cancer center at Dr. Phillips Hospital has been completed. Oncologists have already been relocated to the Lake Nona area.
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• Orlando’s bike share program is expanding to Lake Nona. The bike rental program aims to be at the site of medical city by January.
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• Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald called it a great day for central Florida veterans at the official opening of the new VA medical center in Lake Nona.
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• The president of Nemours Children’s Hospital in Medical City is retiring this year, the hospital announced today. Roger Oxendale led Nemours Children’s Hospital through construction of the $400 million hospital, which opened in late 2012.
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• Orlando-based Tavistock Development Co. and Miami-based Crystal Lagoons have joined forces to build a large-scale man-made recreational lake as the centerpiece of a new luxury resort in Lake Nona. The 11-acre Caribbean-style beachfront lagoon, to be built near Lake Nona’s new U.S. Tennis Association complex, will be the largest planned Crystal Lagoons Lake in the U.S. to date. The sites are ideal for swimming, kayaking, paddle boarding, sailing and more. The projects also help boost real estate values for developers of nearby properties, bringing a sought-after luxury amenity.
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• Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has toured Orlando’s VA facilities- and seen first-hand the needs facing Central Florida veterans.
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