Osceola’s massive Green Island Ranch is back on the market for $140 million
One of Osceola County’s most renowned ranching families has once again put its 5,977 acres on the market — this time for $140 million.
Dusty Calderon, grandson of Henry O. Partin, has joined SVN Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate and teamed up with land specialist Dean Saunders to list the property, which features more than two and half miles of lake frontage on Lake Tohopekaliga. The ranch has been in the Partin family for more than 100 years, and they’re not interested in dividing the property.
“We’re looking for one buyer, one good buyer to come in and take it down,” Calderon said. “We’ve got so many offers, oh we’ll buy 500 acres from you, we’ll do this. They’re just, you know, there’s more than just selling a piece of land when you sell a piece like this. Your heartstrings are attached to it, and the last thing you want to do is sit there and watch and get turned over.”
Calderon previously listed the ranch with a $145 million price tag. He told GrowthSpotter the recent loss of three family elders this year spurred him to put it back on the market. “We just decided the best thing to do to get the right offer was probably to let some people see it that maybe haven’t seen it before, and Saunders has a marketing machine going.”
The Green Island Ranch is a major component of the county’s South Lake Toho Element, a master plan approved in 2009. The ranch already has an approved DRI (development of regional impact) for 13,000 homes, five schools and millions of square feet for office, industrial and commercial space.
The development order even calls for a regional mall and a research park. The county’s comprehensive plan allows for up to 17,000 residential units.
Situated on the south shore of Lake Tohopekaliga and spanning both sides of Florida’s Turnpike, the approved conceptual plan and development order for Green Island Ranch includes a full interchange with the future Southport Connector, a toll road now in the planning stage by Central Florida Expressway Authority.
AdventHealth plans medical warehouses
Altamonte Springs-based AdventHealth has launched plans for a medical supply distribution center in Apopka that may service its Central Florida hospital locations.
The nonprofit healthcare system submitted a plan that will be reviewed by city staff planners.
AdventHealth has owned the 53.65-acre site at 4051 Fudge Rd. since early 2018 when it paid $2.35 million to purchase the property from Capital Land Group LLC, led by James and Toren Veigle.
The Apopka property, just south of the private Orlando Apopka Airport, was purchased in 2018 with the intention to potentially build storage warehouses to support its regional hospitals. Recently submitted plans show AdventHealth seeks to build three warehouse buildings with room for expansion.
The first phase of the AdventHealth Fudge Road project includes two warehouses. One spans 38,833 square feet, with room to expand an additional 37,335 square feet. The second warehouse is planned to be 46,427 square feet, with room to expand 29,752 square feet.
The third warehouse is the largest. Plans show AdventHealth wants to build a 300,000-square-foot distribution building as part of the second phase of construction.
Around the same time, AdventHealth was also laying roots in Lake Nona.
Anticipating more growth in the area, it bought land that straddled Lake Nona Boulevard, along Narcoossee Road, in late 2017 where it opened a 19,000-square-foot ER facility last summer.
The health care company wants to eventually build a Health Park across from the free-standing department in Lake Nona.