Originally Posted by
SSlow
Let me help you out here...
Orlando is a trailer park in a swamp, except for Winter Park. Ain't no high end anything coming to that place lol.
The big ballers in the business world that want to be in FL are all about the Miami to WPB corridor.
This is completely false.
Originally Posted by
ATISInformation
This is where Orlando is now. I have to imagine SK et al are thinking about what Orlando looks like in 10-30 years from now. The
3rd largest university in America, massive population growth
across the entire I-4 corridor (wink wink TPA co-base), and the
largest hospital in America. I want to move there, so maybe I'm biased, but this is a very different Orlando from even 10 years ago.
I can't imagine a scenario in which Orlando does not see the kind of high-income business traffic that makes a IAH/DEN/PHX/SLC viable as a hub (NYC/LAX/ORD/SFO, it is not... for sure).
Yes, UCF is becoming a major research university. A ton of tech and defense firms have offices in Orlando including Boeing, Lockheed, Siemens, etc. There is also NASA and SpaceX and ULA and everything that goes along with it. Orlando is one of the biggest tech towns in the US (lots of simulation and training stuff for the military too) but that fact gets overshadowed because of the theme parks. And medical research is quickly becoming a thing here too.