Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute

[opivys85 53]

Construction recently started on the new Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute. 

The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, set to open in 2023, will be a 195,000-square-foot inpatient facility at the corner of Lucerne Terrace and Columbia Street in downtown Orlando.

[dcluley98 3465]

Really cool design.  I also like that they are building more west to the rail station and the future bike/walk path. 

 

They have a website with a video and live construction cameras: 

https://app.truelook.com/?u=so1607523092#tl_live

https://app.truelook.com/?u=so1607522929#tl_live

https://app.truelook.com/?u=so1607522243#tl_live

[jack 393]

2 hours ago, opivys85 said:

Construction recently started on the new Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute. 

The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, set to open in 2023, will be a 195,000-square-foot inpatient facility at the corner of Lucerne Terrace and Columbia Street in downtown Orlando.

That is a good looking building. 

[WAJAS 380]

Is there a site plan somewhere?

[Jerry95 267]

13 hours ago, WAJAS said:

Is there a site plan somewhere?

Not that I’ve been able to find, my best guess is that the building is on the blue parcel and the garage is on the red parcel

 

[IAmFloridaBorn 1822]

I don’t know how to feel about this .

Looks nice though

[opivys85 53]

4 hours ago, IAmFloridaBorn said:

I don’t know how to feel about this .

Looks nice though

Why don't you know how to feel about it?

[spenser1058 5430]

36 minutes ago, opivys85 said:

Why don't you know how to feel about it?

Let’s all sing “Feelings”

[WAJAS 380]

I like it. More workers in SODO => more supporting business => more residences => higher city revenues => better services*

^{*This is extremely simplified.}

[opivys85 53]

Funny that currently both Orlando and Advent Health are building their orthopedic hospitals simultaneously. Below is the render of AH Rothman Orthopaedic Institute.

 

[shardoon 288]

This is the never ending rivalry between the two hospital systems.  Advent health has a better PR department because I always see advertisements on the news about cutting edge procedures that just started getting offered in Orlando at Advent Health when in reality they were offered at Orlando Health for a few years already. 

[spenser1058 5430]

4 minutes ago, shardoon said:

This is the never ending rivalry between the two hospital systems.  Advent health has a better PR department because I always see advertisements on the news about cutting edge procedures that just started getting offered in Orlando at Advent Health when in reality they were offered at Orlando Health for a few years already. 

Advent has much deeper pockets as part of a much larger system so I’m often amazed OH is able to keep up as well as they do.

[opivys85 53]

I work in both systems. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Advent Health definitely spends wayyyy more on PR. Doesn’t necessarily equate to better care, though. Orlando Health, as the only level 1 trauma center in central Florida, tends to service a different part of the population. The rivalry is a boon to the greater Orlando area as they both compete to provide ever higher quality care to the population IMO.

[codypet 1638]

Is that why Jamie McMurray is driving an Advent Health car for the Daytona 500?  And here they're nickel and diming me to pay for a mistake they made.

[opivys85 53]

Hey they’ve got to spend money somewhere to maintain their non-profit status!

[AndyPok1 995]

On 2/13/2021 at 5:30 PM, IAmFloridaBorn said:

I don’t know how to feel about this .

Looks nice though

 

On 2/13/2021 at 11:01 PM, WAJAS said:

I like it. More workers in SODO => more supporting business => more residences => higher city revenues => better services*

^{*This is extremely simplified.}

Yeah, I'm torn on this too.  The health system expanding is great for all the things @WAJAS said.  My concern a little bit is that as they continue to expand on the west side of Orange (this project, whatever is going to happen at the Orlando Brewing site), we're going to have a 4/5ths of a mile of "dead" zone from an urban activation philosophy.  Which wouldn't be awful if the east side would be built up.  But look at what's happening on that side.  The Mama B's into Foxtail.  The plaza where OTF/Smoothie King was built.  Good additions, but has no scale or density.  If the entire west side is going to be ORMC and related uses, the entire east side needs to be AT LEAST 2-3 stories with lofts above the retail if not entire complexes.  I run this route and walk downtown often the 2 miles from Wadeview.  It's pretty boring and miserable.  You have people that want to spend a Saturday going to and hopping around Ivanhoe or Mills or now Hourglass.  No one says that about SoDo.  We're perilously close to becoming a suburban environment less than 2 miles from downtown.

[codypet 1638]

I would have never thought to walk up Orange, and would prefer Delaney, but you have a point.  ORMC isn't exactly street activating Orange.

[AmIReal 1067]

On 2/18/2021 at 1:56 PM, AndyPok1 said:

 

Yeah, I'm torn on this too.  The health system expanding is great for all the things @WAJAS said.  My concern a little bit is that as they continue to expand on the west side of Orange (this project, whatever is going to happen at the Orlando Brewing site), we're going to have a 4/5ths of a mile of "dead" zone from an urban activation philosophy.  Which wouldn't be awful if the east side would be built up.  But look at what's happening on that side.  The Mama B's into Foxtail.  The plaza where OTF/Smoothie King was built.  Good additions, but has no scale or density.  If the entire west side is going to be ORMC and related uses, the entire east side needs to be AT LEAST 2-3 stories with lofts above the retail if not entire complexes.  I run this route and walk downtown often the 2 miles from Wadeview.  It's pretty boring and miserable.  You have people that want to spend a Saturday going to and hopping around Ivanhoe or Mills or now Hourglass.  No one says that about SoDo.  We're perilously close to becoming a suburban environment less than 2 miles from downtown.

I agree the east side of Orange looks underutilized, but I think the main reason is the depth of those street facing lots. Many of the lots are only 100 feet deep. In order to get additional square footage on the build, the developer would need to buy additional lots. Most of the lots backing up to the commercial lots are residential. So you end up having to do like Chipotle and buy the lot next door just to add parking.

But more importantly your point about SoDo being more like a suburban environment is dead on. SoDo is, by far, the most unwalkable district, but even if it was walkable who wants to walk to the crappy chains that line Orange. OTOH, Mills 50, WCF and to a lesser extent Milk and Ivanhoe are full of local establishments that locals flock to. I live SoDo adjacent and don't eat here (except occasional Bao's, Aardvark, pop ups, or if I'm forced to Delaney).

But much of the SoDo issue, I believe,  is related to the people that live in the adjacent neighborhoods (older crowd) and the fact it is the most commercially viable of all the districts (save CBD).  I don't see Orange Ave changing (despite all the roadwork they are doing), but I do think the plan to develop along Grant and Division could payoff- albeit many years from now.

[AndyPok1 995]

8 hours ago, codypet said:

I would have never thought to walk up Orange, and would prefer Delaney, but you have a point.  ORMC isn't exactly street activating Orange.

I mean, I do typically walk up Delaney but if Orange was activated I could easily see myself preferring that route.