The City of Orlando provided an announcement on the progress of UCF Downtown and the Creative Village.
Infrastructure improvements and new road construction will bring 7,700 UCF and Valencia students to one of the centerpieces of Downtown Orlando in the Fall of 2019.
“The UCF Downtown Campus is as impactful to Orlando as the construction of our Community Venues, Medical City, and SunRail. The campus furthers our efforts to continue revitalizing Downtown and Parramore and provide new educational opportunities for some of our most underserved residents, all the while creating 2,000 new jobs and a more than $200 million impact on our economy each year,” said Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer in a release.
Vertical movement is all but ready to go, only awaiting signed contracts for design and construction for the project teams.
“UCF Downtown anchors the City’s Creative Village project, a new 68-acre live, work, learn and play neighborhood being constructed on vacant land in the heart of our Downtown,” Dyer said on the Creative Village.
“Creative Village will be home to new affordable and market-rate residential options, new office space, retail amenities, parks and gathering space and is also adjacent to the new Parramore PS-8 Community School slated to open in the fall of 2017.”
Photo: City of Orlando
