AdventHealth is looking to officially fold seven more properties into its Health Village campus north of downtown Orlando, but this isn’t exactly a “new land grab” situation.
According to the City of Orlando, the properties are already located inside the existing Health Village boundary, which was created more than three decades ago to keep the hospital’s future growth within a defined area and protect nearby residential neighborhoods from campus creep.
The Orlando Municipal Planning Board approved the request on April 21, along with a future land use change that would assign the properties an Urban Village designation. The parcels total roughly 2.92 acres and are located at 2921 N. Orange Avenue, 2909 N. Orange Avenue, 2925 McRae Avenue, 2905 McRae Avenue, 2901 N. Orange Avenue, 2800 McRae Avenue, and 306 E. Princeton Street.
City staff described the additions as relatively minor, noting that the properties are generally surrounded by AdventHealth’s existing campus and already developed with medical office uses. In other words, this is less about AdventHealth pushing into a new neighborhood and more about formally incorporating properties it already controls into its long-term campus plan…