UPDATE: State OKs $110M Plaza Collina in Lake County

CLERMONT, FL-Plaza Collina, a planned $110-million mixed-use project, has received a green light from the Florida Department of Community affairs. Site work on the development, which will rise on State Road 50 between Clermont’s eastern border and the Orange County line, is expected to begin this year. At 1.2-million-sf, the open-air shopping center would be the largest in Lake County.

The state’s blessing to the project follows Lake County commission’s unanimous decision in January of this year, also supporting Tom Harb’s Phonecia Development LLC’s undertaking, as GlobeSt.com previously reported.

Besides the 1.2-million-sf shopping center, the venture is also slated to have 80,000 sf of retail and entertainment space not directly connected to the center, 250,000 sf of mixed-use space and 200 townhomes. The entire undertaking could total over 1.53 million sf at completion, subcontractors who have worked with the Orlando-based developer on other Central Florida projects tell GlobeSt.com.