Maitland hot spot Jeremiah’s Italian Ice, along with a long-closed Gooding’s and other businesses, are to be razed in October to make way for apartments, restaurants and a market.
Developers say they are finalizing financing, lease deals with tenants, and building permits, with plans for construction to start in about three months on the $65 million Maitland City Centre project at U.S. Highway 17-92 and Horatio Avenue.
“We hear from residents of Maitland that they are embarrassed that friends and family come, and they have nowhere to take them,” Allen Morris, chairman of the Allen Morris Co. “Other than Antonio’s and a few other places, everything else is in Winter Park.”
The city approved development plans last year, and completion is targeted for spring 2017. Partners on the project include Allen Morris Co., Lamm & Co. Partners and Millenia Partners.