OCPS Sees Rhodes+Brito Architects’ Transformation, New Construction at Dover Shores Elementary Completed by mid-June

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orange County Public Schools comprehensive Dover Shores Elementary construction and renovation project designed by Rhodes+Brito will be finished by mid-June in time for faculty to get ready for students in August.

Ruffin Rhodes, co-founder and partner at Rhodes+Brito Architects, said The Dover Shores project, at a cost of approximately $14.8 Million, includes one new building with new classrooms, administration offices, kitchen, multi-purpose lunchroom/stage, play fields and playground equipment and renovation of one existing building that houses Pre-K, Kindergarten, and ESE classrooms.

The elementary school, located at 1200 Gaston Foster Rd., off of S. Conway and Curry Ford Rds., will be ready to accommodate more than 600 students for the fall 2018 school year. 

Dover Shores students have been attending a “swing school” at the former Engelwood Elementary School adjacent to the brand new Engelwood Elementary also designed by Rhodes+Brito and occupied by its students this 2017-2018 school year.

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NAI Realvest Negotiates $7.9 Million Purchase of Downtown Office Building for Medical Equipment Company’s New HQ

ORLANDO, Fla. -- NAI Realvest recently completed an acquisition on behalf of the buyer of  the six-story,  36,426 square foot class A office building at 622 E. Washington St. for $7,900,000.00 or $200.00 per square foot.

Jeff Bloom, CCIM, vice president at NAI Realvest negotiated the transaction representing OM Star Properties, LLC, d/b/a Orchid Medical Equipment Company, who plans to occupy 50 percent of the building for its headquarters that will be relocating.  The sale also included 14,000 square feet of parking garage, Bloom said.

John Worrell of Cite Partners represented Thornton Park Central, LLC, seller of the building that was constructed in 2001 as part of the Thornton Park Central mixed-use development one block east of Lake Eola. 

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