Epic theater orange park fl7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The Wawa, which is not part of Deltona Vilage, is expected to open in the first quarter of next year, said Jerry Robson Jr., a leasing agent with Equity. Herzberg said his company expects to initially build a multi-tenant retail building on land just east of the planned Wawa where the first stores could open by summer 2019. Some pads, however, may be sold to individual users, such as the car dealership that already put its site under contract before Sleiman became part of the project, Herzberg said. Most of the retail building pads will be leased on a long-term basis to the tenants, which would then build their own buildings, he said. Sleiman will be the project's master developer in partnership with the DeMarsh family, which will remain the primary land owner, and Equity Commercial Real Estate Solutions, which will handle leasing, Herzberg said. The credit goes to them for helping us find this gem." "We were very impressed," Herzberg said of Frank DeMarsh and the other executives at the family-run Epic chain. Herzberg said his company took an interest in the Deltona Village after becoming familiar with the Epic Theatre chain which opened a multiplex two years ago at the Sleiman-owned Oakleaf Station Shopping Center in Jacksonville. "We think Epic stumbled upon a gem just a little bit early," said Michael Herzberg, the company's director of development, referring to Deltona's activity area. That assessment is shared by Sleiman Enterprises. The hundreds of medical jobs that the new healthcare facilities are expected to bring will create a need for restaurants, shops and other services as well as multifamily housing, according to Mayes. The HCA-owned Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford also recently purchased a site on the west side of that intersection with plans to build a freestanding emergency department facility of its own.Īnd earlier this week, Florida Hospital announced plans to build a freestanding emergency department facility roughly a mile to the east on Howland Boulevard. Wawa is expected to soon begin construction of a convenience store/gas station at the northwest corner of Howland Boulevard and Graves Avenue/Halifax Crossing Boulevard. The public hospital system is now building a 95-bed hospital next door as part of a planned medical village called Halifax Crossing. New life was breathed into the area last year when Halifax Health opened its freestanding emergency department on a site just north of the DeMarsh family property. The region's inability to recover quickly from the Great Recession stymied those efforts until recently, despite the success of Epic's Deltona movie theater. The development site is owned by the DeMarsh family that operates the DeLand-based Epic Theatres chain and opened its Deltona multiplex in 2011 with visions to attracting more businesses to Deltona Village. ![]() ![]() The Deltona Village development site covers 160 acres in the heart of the city's mostly still undeveloped "Southwest Activity Center." The southwest Volusia city has more than 90,000 residents, Volusia County's most populous, but largely has been a bedroom community since its incorporation in 1995.Įfforts to turn the area immediately east of the Interstate 4/State Road 472 interchange into a hub for commerce date back to the 1990s. "The Sleiman group out of Jacksonville is a big hitter. "It's been a long time coming," said Jerry Mayes, the city's economic development manager. Sleiman Enterprises' plans call for developing two hotels, up to 300,000 square feet of retail space including restaurants, shops and a grocery store, 150,000 square feet of medical office space, 100,000 square feet of "flex space" for light manufacturing and/or warehouses, and 660 apartments.ĭeltona Village will also include a car dealership and a 200,000-square-foot climate-controlled self-storage center. On parcels of land that now house a concrete plant, a RaceTrac gas station, and the 12-screen Epic Theatres mulitplex, a Jacksonville developer is poised to break ground this fall on the first phase of a long-planned project to create a commercial hub. On one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in Deltona, cows still leisurely graze on the lonely piece of pasture just off of Interstate 4. ![]()
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