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    SOCO Restaurant Wins IIDA Hospitality Project Award
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Apr 22, 2015
    • 1 min

    SOCO Restaurant Wins IIDA Hospitality Project Award

    The Gravity Company worked with the Thornton Park Restaurant Group, an independent ownership group in Orlando to design SOCO to reflect the culinary vision of combining distinctive Southern warmth with a youthful Contemporary edge.  A combination of contemporary furniture, unique patterned finishes and the collection of rustic and contemporary lighting complete the Southern Contemporary design. One obstacle faced was the large existing bar that created a huge obstruction into
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    Downtown Disney Press Update
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Sep 2, 2014
    • 1 min

    Downtown Disney Press Update

    The Orlando Sentinel has additional pictures in their photo gallery from a recent press update by Disney Officials. The heart of the expansion will be the springs area shown above. The re-themed venue will be built around reference to historic detail, and will be re-named Disney Springs. Executive Creative Director for Walt Disney Imagineering Theron Skees noted in a newly released video that the story behind Disney Springs spawns from a historic timeline. “Attention to detai
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    Daytona International Speedway Adding Entertainment Complex
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Jul 18, 2014
    • 1 min

    Daytona International Speedway Adding Entertainment Complex

    Brasfield and Gorrie has recently announced construction start on One Daytona, being developed by International Speedway Corp. and Atlanta-based Jacoby Development Inc. It is slated to include 500,000 square feet of retail, specialty restaurants, a 200-room hotel, 325 residential units, a cinema and other entertainment. The project already has signed on Bass Pro Shops and Cobb Theaters. It will be located on International Speedway Boulevard near the Daytona Speedway Stadium.
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    Premium Outlet Center Wins NAIOP Case Competition
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Apr 28, 2014
    • 2 min

    Premium Outlet Center Wins NAIOP Case Competition

    The 6th Annual NAIOP Case Study Competition was an intercollegiate competition between undergraduate student teams from the University of Central Florida (UCF). Each team was asked to evaluate a prime site in Central Florida and devise a development plan based on the current market environment. On Monday, April 14, the judges made a unanimous decision for the premium outlet mall solution with a tower of restaurants and nightclubs, developed by the student team calling themsel
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