Best Western Gets Jump on Hospital Hotel Site

ORLANDO-Alysha Enterprises of Apopka, FL has beaten local, regional and national hotel developers to the spade with its plans to break ground in February on one of the choicest hotel development sites in Lake County.

Alysha plans a five-story, 100-room hotel on a 3.6-acre site fronting Lakeview Center, a medical office venture on U.S. 441 north and across the highway from the $129 million, six-story Florida Hopsital Waterman which is completing the office component of the 350,000-sf project. Tavares, Lake County’s government seat, is 30 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

The hotel’s hard construction cost is projected at about $80,000 per room or an estimated $8 million total for the job, local construction industry estimators tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity. Alysha principals couldn’t be reached at GlobeSt.com’s publication deadline.