NEW YORK: The five hundred and sixty-eighth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
Most major master-planned residential developments are centered around a sales-driving pièce de résistance: a golf course, a playground-studded expanse of parkland, a working farm or a tech startup-friendly commercial district linked to a major commuter rail line.
Boasting (an eventual) 11,000 homes fanning out across 14-square-miles of former Central Florida pastureland, Orlando’s Lake Nona — “the Modern Metropolis,” as its developer, Bahamas-based private investment firm the Tavistock Group, calls it — features the typical trappings of a large master-planned community including schools, shopping and, yep, an 18-hole championship golf course.
However, Lake Nona offers something that its contemporaries in the Orlando area and beyond don’t: a major medical campus.
