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3.1 million

Staff hours worked so far on Brightline trains construction project at 55% completion

155

RAILROAD CROSSINGS UPDATED IN THE PROJECT

$6.4 billion

Projected direct impact of Brightline trains on Florida’s economy over the next 8 years

THE HEAVY CLOUDS OF COVID-19 THAT HUNG OVER OUR REGION ARE DISSIPATING, AND OUR ECONOMY IS GROWING AGAIN. BY MID-SUMMER, I BELIEVE WE WILL BE OVER THE ACUTE PHASE OF THE VIRUS AND OUR ECONOMIC ENGINES WILL BE IN FULL THROTTLE. WE ARE BACK ON COURSE FOR DESTINATION GREATNESS!

— Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings in his third annual State of the County address June 4 as he lifted the state of emergency he had set in March 2020

$610 million

The price Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. paid for the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World, the equivalent of $1.4 million per room key — well over the average per-room cost for luxury hotels of $675,000

Source: Orlando Business Journal

100

Number of the upcoming Leadership Orlando graduating class, which kicked off its nine months of programming in May. This class commemorates the milestone with a record 100 members and also 10 VIP class chairs

34786

Wealthiest ZIP code in Central Florida, representing Windermere, which had been ranked #2 in 2010 behind 32836 (Dr. Phillips/Bay Vista), which is now ranked #2. Rounding out the top 5: 32814 (Lake Baldwin), 32832 (Moss Park/Lake Mary Jane) and 32827 (Airport/Alafaya/Lake Nona)

Source: Orlando Business Journal

“The housing market in Florida has been TP’d — and by that, I mean housing inventory and building materials are missing from the shelves right now much the way toilet paper was early in the pandemic.”

— Sean Snaith, national economist and director of University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Forecasting