Smart sensor group’s latest deal to create 120 new high-wage jobs

Leaders for the International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research are busy securing deals to build up the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center in Kissimmee — and the latest one will lead to plenty of new high-wage jobs. Osceola County on May 23 approved $15 million in research funding to help the Kissimmee-based group develop a design center. Because of…

Tupperware SunRail Station $85M Apartment Complex

Eastwind Development is planning a two-phase, market-rate, 350-unit apartment complex across the street from the SunRail stop on the Osceola County side. The complex, estimated at about $52 million-$53 million, will feature six four-story mid-rises with elevators and detached garages, as well as a separate clubhouse. Interior amenities will include stainless steel appliances, upgraded light…

FAMRC Construction Update

Osceola’s Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center has changed a lot since it started vertical construction a little more than a month ago. What began from just moving dirt around last year on the site near U.S. 192 and Florida’s Turnpike in Kissimmee is now noticeably a large building that will be built with lots of steel and…

Kissimmee Proposed Medical District

If you’re a medical professional in the areas of dermatology, urology, mental health or weight management, Kissimmee officials want to speak with you. Those are the medical specialties the city is lacking, and ones it hopes will come to the area as part of the city’s proposed Medical Arts District project that aims to create…

iCAMR CEO – Chester Kennedy

iCAMR CEO: ‘Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center will be a think tank for small and big businesses’ Chester Kennedy didn’t pay attention when the initial rumblings began about Osceola County and the University of Central Florida wanting to create a high-tech, smart sensor facility. But that changed once the former Lockheed Martin Corp. executive noticed how it could greatly impact…