Florida Hospital to expand biomedical research with new building

Florida Hospital is taking the next step in making biomedical science part of its growing Health Village near downtown Orlando with construction of a $55 million research building.

The five-story project will be the second of at least three planned research buildings in the village, a health-and-wellness community Florida Hospital is developing near its campus at Princeton Street and Orange Avenue, north of downtown.

There’s going to be a bio-research cluster in Health Village,” said Jody Barry, who oversees project development for the hospital. “The idea is to put these researchers in proximity to one another. It’s really through their informal talks and intermingling that great ideas emerge.”

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