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airport
communities
Opposite: Adjacent to Orlando International Airport in
central Florida, the Lake Nona Vertiport is to support allelectric
vertical takeoff and landing jet aircraft created by
Munich-based aviation company Lilium.
There also is a three-year-old, 850,000-square-foot
(79,000 sq m) Amazon fulfillment center, where as
many as 2,500 employees work with sophisticated
robots to retrieve packages and prepare them for
shipment.
And if all that is not cutting-edge enough, Lake
Nona is slated to be the initial U.S. hub for German
aviation firm Lilium's electric-powered vertical takeoff-and-landing
aircraft. When that facility opens in
2025, it will provide air taxi service within a 186-mile
(299 km) radius.
It all adds up to what Ben Weaver calls " a thriving
comprehensive aerotropolis, " the term for
airport-centric development. Weaver is the managing
director of the Tavistock Group, whose development
subsidiary started amassing land in the area when it
bought a local country club during the 1990s. Back
then, " we didn't have an aerotropolis in mind, "
he says. But in recent years, Orlando International
Airport's phenomenal growth-it is now the eighthbusiest
airport in the United States, with 21.6 million
passengers a year-has helped turn Lake Nona
into a lucrative opportunity to create the aviationoriented
community of the future, one whose anchor
is an airport instead of an urban downtown.
" If I drive to the airport from my office in Lake
Nona, it takes me less than 10 minutes, " Weaver
says. " That's a terrific opportunity. "
Orlando is one of numerous spots around the
United States and the world where airports, once
viewed simply as assets for local economies, have
increasingly become cores that are driving development.
In some places, airports are turning large,
unused tracts of land once reserved for airport
expansion into commercial real estate opportunities.
In other places, private land is being turned into
mixed-use communities such as Lake Nona, which
capitalize on their easy access to airports.
At the same time, the land uses have evolved
in response to shifts in the economy, with airports
and the land around them attracting uses as varied
as e-commerce and cold-storage facilities, data
centers, hotels, movie studios, casinos, and medical
cannabis farms.
The town square in the planned community of
Lake Nona, Florida, population 20,000.
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