Chalifoux plans development in Avatar’s Poinciana Industrial Park
December 06, 2005
Longtime Kissimmee-based developer and general contractor Thomas Chalifoux has announced plans for a $30-$35 million mixed-use development in Poinciana Office & Industrial Park.
The 22.75-acre site at the corner of Poinciana Boulevard and Robert McLane Boulevard, just south of 17-92, was purchased for $2.73 million from Avatar Properties Inc., developer of the 1,545-acre office and industrial park, largest in Osceola County.
Preliminary plans for the site, which has approximately 900 feet of frontage on Poinciana Boulevard, call for a mix of retail, professional office, office warehouse and small businesses, according to Chalifoux, who heads up Chalifoux Management Group and is a member of the Osceola County School Board.
Chalifoux has been building and developing commercial and retail projects in Osceola, Orange and Seminole counties since 1978. In addition to retail space, professional offices, office warehouses and small businesses, his firm has built banks, fire stations, churches and a variety of other facilities.
Poinciana Office & Industrial Park currently has over 3 million square feet under roof and some 2,200 employees, many residents of Poinciana, a 47,000-acre master-planned community being developed by Avatar, the community’s primary homebuilder.
Major tenants include Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse and its $73 million regional distribution warehouse; Nursery Supplies, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer for molded plastic plant containers for the wholesale industry; Continental PET Technologies, Osceola’s 1997 Industry of the Year; DoorCraft of Florida, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jeld-Wen and Osceola’s 1998 Industry of the Year; Windsor Metal Finishing, winner of the 2004 Sustainable Florida Best Practices Award for Small Business for its use of environmental- friendly technology; PepsiCo Beverages & Foods/Gatorade (formerly Quaker Oats); McLane/SunEast; Symbol Mattress Company; MultiFoods; Cargill, Inc.(Nutrena Feed Division); P.R. Manufacturing; Lehigh Cement; Florida Power Corporation; Amtrak; Texaco; The Bywater Company (dba John Young Development and Poinciana Rail LLP); 7-Eleven; Williams Properties, Ltd.; SSI Properties, Inc.; and Godinho Properties, LLC.
For more information about Poinciana Office & Industrial Park, contact Avatar’s Tony Iorio, vice president of land development, at (407) 933-5000, or Hank Yunes, Avatar’s vice president of commercial operations, at (305) 442-7000. For more information about the Chalifoux Management Group, contact Thomas Chalifoux at (407) 846-0200.
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