Construction and project management in Lake Nona.
Lake Nona is a Tavistock master-planned community inside the City of Orlando, anchored by Medical City and governed by the Lake Nona DRI. Projects here answer to municipal review and master-plan design control at the same time. Construa runs both tracks.
What building in Lake Nona actually involves.
Lake Nona straddles the southeast edge of Orlando near Orlando International Airport. Most of the developed area is inside city limits, so permitting runs through the City of Orlando, not Orange County — a distinction that catches owners who assume county review.
City of Orlando review
Plan review and inspections go through the City of Orlando Permitting Services Division. Commercial work near Medical City often triggers concurrency, transportation, and utility coordination on top of the building permit.
Tavistock design review
Lake Nona's developer maintains design guidelines and architectural review for parcels inside the community. That approval layer runs parallel to the city permit and has stalled more than one schedule that ignored it.
Lake Nona DRI
The area sits under a Development of Regional Impact framework. Density, trip generation, and phasing are already entitled at a master level, but project-level conditions still need to be read and honored.
Submarkets around Lake Nona.
The 55,000-acre footprint covers Laureate Park, the Lake Nona Town Center, the Medical City research and hospital campuses, Lake Nona Golf & Country Club, and the growth corridors along Narcoossee Road and Lake Nona Boulevard.
Laureate Park & residential
Custom homes and infill in the village neighborhoods, where HOA and design review sit on top of city permitting.
Town Center & commercial
Retail, office, and mixed-use near the Town Center, where parking, signage, and facade standards are tightly controlled.
Medical City campuses
Healthcare, lab, and research tenant work where AHCA and specialty inspections add layers beyond a standard buildout.
Narcoossee corridor
South toward Osceola County, where Orange and Osceola jurisdictions meet and the correct permit office is not always obvious.
What a Lake Nona project needs from a manager.
The hardest part of Lake Nona is not the building. It is running the city permit and the master-plan design approval on parallel tracks without letting either one quietly delay the other.
Two approval tracks, one schedule
We sequence city permitting and Tavistock design review together so neither becomes the surprise that holds up mobilization.
Office 15 minutes away
Our Westgate office is a short drive from Lake Nona. Site walks and city counter visits happen the same week, not next month.
Owner-side accountability
For out-of-state owners drawn to Medical City, we hold the documentation, inspections, and reporting so nothing depends on a phone call you cannot make.
Send the address. We'll tell you whether city review, design review, or both are your real path.
Local principal, City of Orlando familiarity, and same-week availability for serious Lake Nona projects.