PROscape to build branch operations center in PoincianaSM
August 01, 2007
PROscape, one of Central Florida’s largest landscape management and service companies, is planning to break ground within the next 30 days on a branch operations center in Poinciana Office & Industrial Park.
PROscape, which specializes in large-scale residential and commercial properties, plans to build a branch operations center of approximately 6,500 sq. ft. that would house offices, a maintenance shop, and storage facilities. The 3.5-acre site is located on Mercantile Avenue, just two blocks southeast of the intersection of Poinciana Boulevard and State Road 17-92.
PROscape’s PoincianaSM branch operations center, estimated to cost nearly $1 million including the land, is expected to take 8-12 months to complete, according to Keith O’Dell, vice president of the Orlando-based company. In addition to the Orlando and PoincianaSM markets, PROscape maintains branch operations centers in Palm Coast/St. Augustine, Kissimmee and Ocala.
PROscape purchased the 3.5-acre site from park developer Avatar Properties Inc. and currently maintains a temporary PoincianaSM branch operations center with approximately 200 employees near Avatar’s active adult community of Solivita®.
Specializing in landscape design, installation, maintenance and irrigation, PROscape also maintains an affiliated company, LAWNworx, which provides lawn and ornamental pest control. PROscape currently services Avatar’s master-planned communities of Solivita®, PoincianaSM, BellalagoSM and the Isles of BellalagoSM.
For more information about Poinciana Office & Industrial Park, contact Hank Yunes, Avatar’s vice president of commercial operations, at (305) 442-7000, or Tony Iorio, Avatar’s vice president of land development, at (407) 933-5000. For more information about PROscape, contact Keith O’Dell or Larry O’Dell at (407) 438-7442 or log onto the company’s web site at www.proscape.biz.
More about Poinciana Office & Industrial Park
Poinciana Office & Industrial Park currently has nearly 3.7 million square feet planned or under roof and nearly 2,500 employees, many residents of Poinciana, the 47,000-acre master-planned community also being developed by Avatar Properties Inc., the community’s primary homebuilder.
Other current and future tenants in the 1,545-acre Poinciana Office & Industrial Park include Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse and its regional distribution warehouse; Nursery Supplies, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of molded plastic plant containers for the wholesale industry; Jeld-Wen doors and windows (formerly DoorCraft of Florida), 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 environmentally-friendly technology; Cargill, Inc. (Nutrena Feed Division); PepsiCo Beverages & Foods/Gatorade (formerly Quaker Oats); MultiFoods; P.R. Manufacturing; Symbol Mattress Company; Florida Power Corporation; Lehigh Cement; Amtrak; Texaco; 7-Eleven; Williams Properties, Ltd.; SSI Properties, Inc.; Commercial Metals Company (dba SMI Steel Fabricators of Florida); Chalifoux Management Group; Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc.; Heritage Jabez V LLC; Joe Adino; Small Bay Partners and Poinciana Commerce Center LLC; Godhino Properties LLC; and Giron Investment LLC.
###