Roof trusses are going up over Glasshouse’s Phase II building at O-Town West in Southwest Orlando, while its neighboring Phase III structure still has open upper floors and exposed concrete elevator cores rising above the wood framing below. The two five-story buildings, located at 11780 Glass House Lane, will together add 591 residential units to the site, pushing the overall Glasshouse community past 900 residences across three buildings once finished.
According to Florida YIMBY, Phase II’s residential structure is largely built to its full five stories, with structural wall sheathing now enclosing substantial portions of the elevations and wood trusses forming pitched and gabled roof sections. Phase III remains more exposed, with ongoing framing and sheathing work and portions of its upper floors still open to the elements. Roger B. Kennedy Construction is serving as general contractor on both buildings, developed by Unicorp National Developments as the final residential piece of its O-Town West master plan.
Both buildings are designed with wood-framed residential wings wrapping around internal parking garages, a layout from Krieger Klatt Architects that keeps the concrete decks concealed behind living space rather than exposed to the street. Phase III’s parking structure is described as increasingly concealed as its wings rise, even as its concrete elevator cores still project above the surrounding wood framing.
A $168 Million Loan Ties Into a Decade of Bank Backing
Construction on Phases II and III officially got underway in October 2025, after Centennial Bank closed a $168 million construction loan for the project, establishing a 30-month build-out toward a mid-2028 completion target. That loan pushed Centennial Bank’s cumulative lending relationship with Unicorp past $1 billion over ten years, according to Multi-Housing News. It is a scale of institutional backing that underscores how central Glasshouse has become to Unicorp’s broader Orlando footprint, which Hoodline has previously profiled…