Hospital planned for Holy Land site
AdventHealth also intends to build 80,000-square-foot medical office building at former Christian theme park location
AdventHealth has submitted plans showing that it intends to build medical offices and a hospital on the former Holy Land Experience site in Orlando, according to a report in GrowthSpotter.
According to a recently submitted application to Orlando’s Municipal Planning Board, the health system won’t be demolishing the existing three-story auditorium nor the existing Holy Land building directly across yet.
Instead, AdventHealth intends to build around the structures at 4655 and 4615 Vineland Road, and embark on a two-phase development plan, called AdventHealth Millenia, that involves building a four-story, 80,000 square foot medical office building (Phase 1) and a five-story, 261,500-squarefoot hospital (Phase 2).
Included in plans for the first phase are a helipad, which will require a Conditional Use Permit, and associated surface parking.
The first floor of the medical office building will feature a 20,000-square-foot of Emergency Room.
The second floor will have 20,000 square feet of medical office space and the third and fourth floors will feature 19,000 square feet each consisting of either medical office uses or ambulatory surgical centers.
Phase 1 will also include building the master infrastructure to serve future phases of the hospital. According to the plans, AdventHealth is still considering demolishing the current Holy Land Experience structures for future phases.
Kimley-Horn is the civil engineer assigned to the project. The proposed plans are set to go before Orlando’s Municipal Planning Board on Feb. 15.
Earlier this summer, the hospital system paid $32 million for the 14.2-acre site on the northeast corner of Vineland Road and Conroy Road.
The Christian theme park’s parent company, Trinity Broadcasting Network, had struggled to keep the business afloat.
Shortly before the pandemic struck, Holy Land Experience ended all of its stage shows and laid off much of its workforce.
AdventHealth is one of the largest faithbased health systems in Florida. Its Central Florida division has more than 20 hospitals and ERs across seven counties.