WHAT: Tuesday, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, District 5 City Commissioner Daisy Lynum and Wells Landing Developer Hanton Walters will break ground on Wells Landing, a new urban-planned community in Parramore featuring a variety of mixed-income; single-family, owner-occupied houses and townhomes.
Home ownership opportunities have grown substantially in Parramore with more than $10 million invested since the launch of Mayor Dyer’s Pathways for Parramore initiative in 2005, resulting in a total of 34 new and rehabilitated homes with 271 new housing units in the near future including the Wells Landing development.
BACKGROUND: In June 2009, Mayor Dyer and Commissioner Lynum announced that since the Pathways for Parramore initiative launched, the City has leveraged more than $35 million of City, state, federal, public and private investments, community resources to make significant strides in transforming this one square mile community block by block: helping lifelong renters own their first homes, opening new restaurants and retailers and even attracting national headquarters to invest in Parramore.
WHO: Mayor Buddy Dyer
City Commissioner Daisy Lynum, District 5
Developer – Hanton Walters, Nu Beginnings Development
Architect – The Evans Group
Site Engineer – Bowyer-Singleton & Associates, Inc.
General Contractor – Roger B. Kennedy, Inc.
Modular Construction – Palm Harbor Home
Financing – Florida Community Partners
Mortgage Specialists – Town & Country Mortgage Services, Inc. and Urban Trust Bank
Housing and Credit Counselors – Mortgage & Credit Center, LLC
WHEN: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: Future site of Wells Landing, 730 South Parramore Avenue and Conley Street
Orlando, FL 32801
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE GROUNDBREAKING EVENT CONTACT:
Brenda Carter de Treville Heather Allebaugh
Brand Strategies Group at 407.539.5981 City of Orlando at 407.246.3423
