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The Orlando city commissioner and Orlando managing director of CBRE said during Orlando Business Journal’s Doing Business in Downtown event on Nov. 14 that the project’s up-to-300,000 square feet of office space will bring people who want to go out to eat, be entertained and more.
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Westcourt, a $500 million-plus, 900,000-square-foot development from San Francisco-based JMA Ventures LLC and Houston-based Machete Group, is slated to be built on 8.5 acres along West Church Street just north of the Kia Center.
In addition, Travel + Leisure will move to its new headquarters into 182,000 square feet at 501 W. Church St. as early as next year, bringing 800-1,000 people downtown.
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“Westcourt will be a primer for Church Street, because most of the services are on the east side of I-4. That area is begging to be redeveloped,” Gray said.
Jere’ Matheny, vice president of brokerage services with First Capital Property Group Inc. said he sees Westcourtas a connector to the west side of downtown, along with the planned Canopy urban gathering space beneath Interstate 4, with the potential to spread out events in a bigger area.
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