AROUND FLORIDA We welcome your reports of interesting projects and opportunities. Send these by email to buckshon@floridaconstructionnews.com. CENTRAL AND NORTH Lung restoration center breaks ground in Jacksonville Construction has started for a new three-storey lung restoration center on the Mayo Clinic’s Jack- sonville campus. The clinic is partnering with United Therapeutics to develop technology that can sustain and rejuvenate lungs, making previously marginal lungs suitable for transplantation. The rejuvenation technology could triple the number of lungs suitable for transplant, solving the serious transplantation wait list problem. The project has been designed by the EwingCole archi- tecture, engineering and design firm, with participation from Prosser. The general contractor is Whiting-Turner. The lung restoration center is scheduled to open in 2017. Published reports do not provide details about the project’s dollar value. Florida Construction News combines a bi-monthly magazine with a weekly newsletter and a website (updated daily), delivering news, analysis and networking opportunities to Florida’s architecture, engineering and construction community. The magazine is distributed primarily online to 9,000 general contrac- tors, specialty contractors, developers, professional services and building owners throughout Florida. For more information on promoting your business to our au- dience and to request rates, see the advertising rates page on the Floridaconstructionnews.com website. You can also contact Chase at chasemarketing@sympatico.ca or phone him at 888- 627-8717 ext 212. You can send editorial news releases and announcements to Mark Buckshon at buckshon@floridaconstructionnews.com. Florida Construction News is published by Construction News and Report Publishing Inc. 332 S Michigan Ave, Ste 1032 - C319, Chicago IL 60604-4434. Publisher: Interim editor: Production and design: Administration: Chase Mark Buckshon Raymond Leveille Katherine Jeffrey, Kathy Lepage Printed subscriptions You can request a printed single copy for $12.95 (postage included) or a six issue printed subscription for $65.00 at the floridaconstructionnews.com website. Alternatively, you can read the digital version free of charge online at Floridaconstructionnews.com. © Copyright 2016 Construction News and Report Publishing Inc. 2 – MARCH-APRIL 2016 — Florida Construction News News and information about projects and activities throughout the state Osceola County selects Perkins + Will to design 500-acre tech campus The selection committee of Osceola County’s selection committee, in early March, chose architectural company Perkins + Will as the best candidate to master plan the large property that sur- rounds the Florida Ad- vanced Manufacturing Research Center. “We found them to have the best approach, and they seem to have the best ideas for what our plans are,” Rebecca Jones, Osceola County’s procurement services director, told the Orlando Business Journal. “They really drilled down on the tech market.” The tech campus will capitalize on the growing smart sensors market, expected to be valued at $154 billion by 2020, and will be designed as a live, work and play environ- ment. Jones said figures were not discussed during the meet- ing, but the scope of the project is expected to have a mas- sive economic impact. The research center alone is expected to transform the local economy by creating nearly 20,000 new high-tech, high wage jobs within 10 years with more than 80,000 total jobs related to the project and $482 million in tax revenue generated. Roger B. Kennedy Construction breaks ground for $4M seventh phase of Regal Oaks Resort, plus $12M Kenwood Place Apartments Altamonte Springs based Roger B. Kennedy Construc- tion has broken ground for the $4 million seventh phase of Regal Oaks Resort vacation club, for which Kennedy has constructed all prior phases to- taling $33 million. This brings the total value to $37 million. Located adjacent to Kissimmee’s Old Town attrac- tion, the resort is a develop- ment of CLC Regal Oaks, LLC, and was designed by Charlan Brock & Associates, Maitland, the contractor says in a news release. The latest 37-unit phase is slated for completion in Au- gust 2016. Kennedy also broke ground for the new Kenwood Place Apartments in Tallahassee under a $12.8 million contract with Wendover Housing Partners, LLC, Altamonte Springs. The new three-storey, 112-unit senior housing facility was designed by Slocum Platts Architects, Maitland, and is slated for completion in March 2017.