Design work on a $17 million, 5.4-mile connector road, linking main transportation arteries to the south Orlando property, begins this week. ICP is donating land and engineering expertise for the four-lane right-of-way that will extend Alafaya Trail through the site to the Martin Anderson Bee Line Expressway.

Permitting and construction of the road will take three years but selling prime pieces of dirt inside the park is already under way. The connector is key to the park's long-range development plans and ultimate success, ICP broker Sam Evans tells GlobeSt.com.

"I have just finished talking long-distance with an international manufacturer" for one of the tracts, says Evans. "Interest is high." Already booked for a construction start this year is Orlando-based Correct Craft Inc.'s planned 300,000-sf boat factory and new headquarters; and a 200,000-sf distribution center planned by Sierra Stone Inc. of Dallas.