Conner Joins ONIC's Board

ORLANDO-Carol Conner, a consultant on the four million-sf Orange County Convention Center and a principal at locally based civil engineering firm, Miller Sellen Conner & Walsh, has been named a director of the Orlando Neighborhood Improvement Corp., an affordable housing developer since 1989.

A specialist on storm water management issues, Conner will advise ONIC on new development opportunities in Orlando. The developer has five projects under way. They are:

–Hampton Park (cost: $20 million): Redevelopment of 17 vacant acres in Colonial Town, Downtown Orlando. The mixed-use and mixed-income project will have 48 rental apartments for the elderly, 65 single-family homes; and 20,000 sf of office and commercial space. The project, owned by the Orlando Housing Authority, started in February 2000 and is expected to be completed in 2004.