It's the convention center part of the project that keeps Osceola County commissioners focused on Miller and his so-far mysterious unnamed new investor group. Osceola County knows it will never be able to compete with the four-million-sf Orange County Convention Center that is adding another 1.1 million sf this year. But Osceola will be satisfied if it can at least pick up the crumbs of Orange County's gargantuan convention business to pay the bills and still have a little left over for future development.

The convention center site is between US 192 and Osceola Parkway, eight miles from the 30,000-acre Walt Disney World empire.

Miller's newest idea is to have Osceola dissolve its two-year-old Osceola Trace Community Development District that had envisioned paying for the project, and replace it with a different kind of taxing district--one that could legally issue bonds for various infrastructure needs. The county would repay the debt, using tourist-development tax revenue and would get its money back through assessments.