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AdventHealth is requesting approval to add seven recently acquired properties totaling 2.92 acres to its Health Village campus north of downtown Orlando and Ivanhoe Village.
The Orlando Municipal Planning Board will consider the request at its April 21 meeting, and city planning staff is recommending approval, because they love new development. The properties include six parcels on North Orange Avenue and McRae Avenue between East Hazel Street and East King Street, plus one property at 306 East Princeton Street. All are currently housed by medical office buildings.
AdventHealth is requesting to change the future land use designation for these properties from Mixed Use Corridor-Medium Intensity and Urban Activity Center to Urban Village, which matches the rest of the campus, which means taller and more dense, versus the single-story buildings that are currently there. The properties would also be added to the AdventHealth Planned Development zoning district.
AdventHealth is also requesting approval for a pedestrian bridge over Dade Avenue that would connect the existing Innovation Tower with a new 12-story, 354,940 SF medical office building approved in October 2025, where Cindy’s Tropical Cafe used to be located. The current Planned Development prohibits pedestrian bridges over Dade Avenue, Orange Avenue, Princeton Street, and a portion of Rollins Street.
AdventHealth stated the bridge would enable an estimated 33,811 annual patient visits to efficiently access services, including plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, interventional pulmonology, ambulatory surgery, orthopedics, and imaging between the two buildings.
City planning staff supports allowing the pedestrian bridge over Dade Avenue, given the intensity of multi-story medical office uses in the area (even though it’s got some intense residential projects directly across the street). The actual bridge design will require approval through a Planning Official Determination.
Since 2009, AdventHealth has acquired 15 parcels and three right-of-way abandonments as part of the campus expansion.
Courtesy notices were mailed to property owners within 400 feet of the subject properties the week of April 6. At the time of this post, city staff had not received any public comments.
