LN. The Lake Nona Magazine - Edition 5

DID YOU NONA?

Continuing the tradition established by Lake Nona Town Center’s Code Wall and the community’s focus on public art, the Wave and DNA garages exemplify Lake Nona’s placemaking principles to take something that’s typically utilitarian and transform it into something special.

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Wave Garage

Beacon & Code Wall

DNA Garage

Planned and developed by the Tavistock Group, Lake Nona is one of the fastest growing and most innovative communities in America. Located in Orlando, Florida, the 17-square-mile community has established a new standard of living for its residents with groundbreaking initiatives around technology, mobility, wellbeing and training.

Located contiguous to Orlando International Airport, Lake Nona’s advanced infrastructure and commitment to collaboration has drawn companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe to join its living lab environment accelerating economic growth across health and life sciences, education, hospitality, and sports and performance.

Lake Nona’s business ecosystem is enhanced by a cultural landscape defined by iconic architecture and public art installations, miles of trails and walkable green spaces, signature events, shopping, dining and entertainment options set amongst Central Florida’s beautiful natural landscape and year-round sunshine.

The Living Room of Lake Nona

Lake Nona Wave Hotel is Orlando’s newest lifestyle hotel with an unmistakably welcoming spirit. As the country’s most tech-focused hotel and destination for connectivity, relaxation and collaboration, Lake Nona Wave Hotel is an extension of the soul and spirit of the surrounding Lake Nona community.

Lake Nona residents can take advantage of the Living Room lobby and its vibrant bar as a destination for networking, weekend playtime, off-duty evenings and meetings. In total, the Wave hotel features two mixology-driven bars and three dining concepts where you can savor artful plates and Instagram-worthy cocktails amid intimate seating areas, a stadium staircase lounge and an eccentric game room - each adorned with pop-art inspired niches that serve as playful conversation starters.

Lake Nona Wave Hotel is at the forefront of the work, play, live movement with 12,000 square feet of event space. You will find a venue to suit any celebration from the colorful pool deck that ignites celebrations with color and sound to the whimsical Sculpture Garden offering a dramatic locale under a canopy of almost 300 palm trees.

Resembling waves of energy, visitors will be inspired by the hotel’s curved architecture, playful and unexpected design elements, interactive art installations and more.

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STAY THE LAKE NONA WAY

Whether you’re traveling for business, escaping for a quick staycation or visiting the area as a gateway to Orlando’s theme-park paradise, Lake Nona’s hotels have it all, no matter what brings you to Central Florida.

Courtyard & Residence Inn by Marriott

The dual-branded Courtyard by Marriott and Residence Inn by Marriott Lake Nona make getting away from the everyday easy for families and business travelers — you can even bring your fourlegged friend since the hotel has a pet-friendly policy.

COMING FALL 2023: Aloft Hotel Lake Nona

Arguably the hippest hotel in the Marriott Bonvoy hotel portfolio, the Aloft Hotel Lake Nona was announced in Oct. 2021 with an anticipated opening in the fall of 2023. The hotel will feature 205 loftinspired guest rooms with a lobby bar and concert space

SpringHill Suites by Marriott

Located within Lake Nona Creekside, the SpringHill Suites by Marriott features 153 suites just a few minutes from Orlando International Airport and Lake Nona Town Center. The outdoor pool, fitness center and graband-go market make the hotel a one-stop destination for anything the business or leisure traveler might need.

Lake Nona Wave Hotel

Its striking silhouette against the blue Lake Nona skies communicates one thing: This is no ordinary hotel. The Wave Hotel seamlessly combines technology, art and wellbeing. Take a stroll in the world class sculpture garden, enjoy innovative dishes and cocktails

Concert lovers know: There’s nothing quite like seeing a great musician perform live on stage. There’s an energy and electricity that energizes the room after the first notes are played and first words are sung.

THESOUNDTRACK OFLAKENONA

Canvas Restaurant & Market

With some of the most romantic views in the area and local-meets-global dishes by executive chef Jonathan Fahey, guests at one of Lake Nona’s most-lauded restaurants can relax with a glass of wine or a cocktail and listen to some of Orlando’s best singer-songwriter acoustic talent three nights per week.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 5 to 9 p.m.

Live on the Lawn

Lake Nona Town Center is a hub for coming together as

Lake Nona Town Center

Lake Nona Town Center is a hub for coming together as a community, and that includes some incredible musicians setting the mood for a fun and relaxing weekend. Join us for lawn games and live music during Live on the Lawn every Saturday. Every Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Stretch your culture vulture wings at Art After Dark in collaboration with Orlando Local Makers at Lake Nona Town Center. Three full hours of art displays, special exhibitions, food trucks and live music are on deck for the entire family, including your furry family members. Every Friday, 6 to 10 p.m.

Boxi Park

One of Orlando’s best places to enjoy delicious eats, cold beverages and live music is Boxi Park. The outdoor dining and entertainment venue consists of 12 repurposed shipping containers, each with a different food or beverage concept on offer. Onstage, you’ll find a different act each night. Thursdays see a high-energy band, on Fridays a DJ takes the stage, then Saturday and Sunday have live acts in the morning and afternoons.

Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Canvas Restaurant & Market

With some of the most romantic views in the area and local-meets-global dishes by executive chef Jonathan Fahey, guests at one of Lake Nona’s mostlauded restaurants can relax with a glass of wine or a cocktail and listen to some of Orlando’s best singersongwriter acoustic talent three nights per week.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 5 to 9 p.m.

Nona Adventure Park

Head down to Nona Adventure Park for live music and a picture-perfect view during Songs at Sunset every Friday and Saturday night at the Splashes Bar & Grill.

Every Friday and Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Here, check out some of the spots where you can catch Central Florida’s best and upand-coming acts in an atmosphere that’s second to none.

That’s why Lake Nona’s live music scene is growing, and now you can see live music almost any night of the week at one of the area’s great venues.

Check out some of the spots where you can catch Central Florida’s best and up-and-coming acts in an atmosphere that’s second to none.

That’s why Lake Nona’s live music scene is growing, and now you can see live music almost any night of the week at one of the area’s great venues.

Kicking and Screaming

XL Soccer World offers programs and leagues for little Ronaldo’s and Messi’s of all ages, from programs for toddlers as young as 18 months to recreational and competitive leagues for ages 6 to 14. They also offer a fantastic program specifically designed for kids with special needs and an all-girls program with a new Girls Director of Coaching, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup Champion Sydney Leroux.

This year, XL Soccer World is also expanding its facility to include two full-size outdoor fields which will play host to international youth tournaments, adult leagues, recreational programs and be an Orlando City Soccer School location.

Hit the Sand with Olympic Champions

In 2020, pro beach volleyball players and Lake Nona residents, Phil and Jennifer Dalhausser, announced a partnership with Lake Nona to launch the Phil Dalhausser Beach Volleyball Academy at Boxi Park. The classes are designed for kids and teens of all skill levels (plus there are adult social leagues if you’re looking to get your own spike on).

Blaze the Trails

With more than 44 miles of paved and unpaved trails to explore, Lake Nona is the perfect spot to hitch up the bikes and go for a ride or a nature walk. Soak in the sights and sounds from the flora and fauna around you or make a scavenger hunt for the kids to keep busy as you enjoy Florida’s natural scenery.

Be the Talk of the Town Center

Lake Nona Town Center is the beating heart of the community, and it’s a hub for families looking to unwind after a long day or week. Start with dinner at Park Pizza & Brewing Co., Bosphorous or Chroma Modern Bar & Kitchen.

The green space is a perfect spot to wait for a table, snag a snap in front of the angel wings mural, or let the kids play while you lounge on one of the patio chairs and soak up the moments of sunshine. At Boxi Park, the playground, pavilion and dog run areas are high priority for kiddos to meet and greet each other and watch their favorite pups play.

Dive into Laureate Park Aquatic Center

It’s hot out there! If you’re a Laureate Park resident, grab the kids, their swimsuits and towels and splash away the day at the Laureate Park Aquatic Center, which recently grew by 17,000 square feet.

There’s a new pavilion for picnicking, and a five-lane lap pool for your little Michael Phelps to practice his butterfly. On land, the half-sized basketball court and beach volleyball courts are perfect for playing before taking a dip.

Learn to Drive

Okay, not in a car, but in one of the bays at Drive Shack Lake Nona. Kids will love competing with each other (and you!) to see how far they can drive the ball. The climate-controlled bays make this a fun outing even in the hot summer months. Inside, kids will find a virtual reality driving range and golf course to practice in the cool of the air conditioning, as well as retro arcade games, basketball, foosball, shuffleboard and more.

Get a Taste for Adventure

Nona Adventure Park is an active kid’s wonderland. With inflatable slides and obstacles, they’ll feel like they’re on an episode of Wipeout while they traverse the cable park, scale the 60-foot climbing tower, swing through the ropes course and more. Water-based sports are a big draw here, and little daredevils can try their balance and participate in a wakeboarding, kneeboarding or waterskiing lesson at Nona Wake.

Play the Day Away

Lake Nona kids can make the most of sunny days by playing at the neighborhood playgrounds complete with slides, rope climbs, and custom features made with little ones in mind.

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Scavenge for Art

Take the kids on a scavenger hunt to find these art installations throughout the community on the sides of buildings and parking garages, in gardens and courtyards, indoors and out.

Select pieces of art in Lake Nona have QR codes installed in front of the installations. Scan them to learn more about the artist and inspiration behind each of these unique pieces.

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Lake Nona is home to dozens of art installations that feature different art forms including sculptures, murals, digital art, and live performances.

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Luxury locker rooms featuring towel service, sauna and steam room.

Fresh juices, smoothies, and healthy snacks from Lake Nona’s own Veg’n Out.

More than 150 state-of-theart pieces of strength and cardiovascular equipment.

A dedicated 5,500-squarefoot Chopra Mind-Body Zone and Spa to rival the best yoga, barre, and Pilates studios, partnered with Deepak Chopra.

15,000-square-foot EDGE Sports Performance and Recovery center.

Aquatics Center featuring four different pools.

The region’s largest rock-climbing gym featuring a 40-foot climbing wall

Indoor track for walking and jogging.

Multiple indoor basketball and volleyball courts.

of the most diverse areas of the United States, and Lake Nona is proud to be part of that shared experience.

Because of this diversity, we love to celebrate what makes each culture unique by hosting events that honor our diversity.

CREATING & CELEBRATING through Events CULTURE

Year-Round Celebrations Abound

As a bastion of Latin and Hispanic culture, Lake Nona celebrates the culinary history Pineapple Festival, held at Lake Nona Town Center each spring. Merengue and salsa music invite you to dance, filling the outdoor area with festive beats. Kids can join in on the dancing fun and make crafts celebrating the rich heritage of the island. Excite your taste buds with delicious flavors like savory mofongo and refreshing mojitos around every corner. The fun continues late into the night, just like it would if you were in Old San Juan.

Across the pond, Oktoberfest is getting into full swing as Lake Nona Town Center becomes a Bavarian village at the beginning of fall. With live entertainment (polka music, of course), stein hoist competitions and plenty of flowing beer, soft pretzels and bratwurst, Oktoberfest brings the buzzing German festivities to life right here in Central Florida. Park Pizza & Brewing Co., Lake Nona’s hometown brewery, taps special kegs for the event, including the Park Pumpkin Ale and a special Oktoberfest brew.

While Lake Nona celebrates all our favorite major holidays in cheerful fashion, no one can deny that the end-of-year holidays are special. Central Florida’s mostmagical fun begins in early December when Lake Nona Town Center transforms into Peppermint Square during Oh, What Fun! With three weeks of festivities, there’s something new to do each night, like musical performances, a visit to Santa and Mrs. Claus at their cottage, and holiday markets to find the perfect gift for everyone on your shopping list. On the first night of Hanukkah, a rabbi presides over the lighting of the Lake Nona menorah, followed by celebrating the story of the festival of lights. Topped with nightly snowfall, hearts are warm in Lake Nona’s winter wonderland!

Making New Community Traditions

The Lake Nona community is built on values that make it Central Florida’s best place to live: wellness, community connection and innovation being at the top of the list. That’s why Lake Nona strives to create events that give everyone an opportunity to join in on the buzz. Whatever your thing: live music, fitness challenges, mindfulness practice, crafting, and so much more - we have a time and place (just check our events calendar) for everyone to find their crew or try something new.

Each summer, the Great American Block Party brings together neighbors from all walks of life in Lake Nona Town Center. Featuring a full roster of fun for both kids and adults, including street performers, live music and a beer garden for grownups, this block party is an opportunity to meet up with friends and make some new ones. Show off your cornhole meddle, try your luck at classic carnival games, and savor some funnel cake.

The Town Harvest brings Lake Nona together to celebrate the end of summer and usher in fall fun. Pick out the perfect pumpkin at the patch, snap festive photos in front of the beautifully styled fall walls and haystacks, and enjoy live music at Lake Nona Town Center and Boxi Park. There are always delicious fall flavors to indulge in, too. Our can’t-miss autumn staples - the pumpkin cheesecake blondies and apple cider donuts.

Staying active and enjoying the outdoors are also dear to Lake Nona and our community, and the annual Run Nona 5K and Nemours Children’s Run is one tradition everyone looks forward to. All are welcome, whether you’re a seasoned marathoner, or seeking a low-resistance workout with friends, Run Nona is a chance for all skill-levels to get moving. Younger track stars can enjoy the Kids Zone for a full slate of activities, too. After the late afternoon race, the Lake Nona Town Center transforms into a fun-filled block party with live music, delicious food and entertainment for the whole family.

When it comes to the arts, Lake Nona and Central Florida are home to some amazing and exciting artists who we feature at Art After Dark: our very own Friday night art crawl in the Lake Nona Town Center. Check out our murals, the Wave Hotel sculpture garden, and enjoy the famous Lake Nona landmark: the Beacon, by local, internationally renowned artist, JEFRË. Sip on a glass of wine and grab some yummy (and artful!) bites while you stroll the artisan craft market to discover some of your new favorite artists.

Of course, no event is complete without our wonderful community members who bring life and color to Lake Nona every day. Together, our community continues to discover and invent new things to celebrate! A calendar full of fun every week, lasting connections with friends and neighbors, and quality time with your family and memories they’ll never forget.

We’ve built our everexpanding wellbeing ecosystem to include everything from dozens of parks and miles of trails to worldclass fitness facilities like the USTA National Campus and the Lake Nona Performance Club. We’re even exploring what the future of sports and performance will look like with 5G-powered solutions in the leAD Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Accelerator.

Sports Lovers GUIDE

Whether you’re one of the pros, training to be one, or just looking for ways to stay active, Lake Nona is the perfect home base for every kind of athlete.

USTA National Campus

You’ll find 100 tennis courts, both indoor and outdoor, at the USTA National Campus where the pros come to train and families come to learn and play together. Twenty-six of those courts feature SmartCourt technology allowing players to review their game after each set. Lake Nona residents Jennifer Brady, CiCi Bellis, and Madison Keys all train at the National Campus to prepare for Grand Slam tournaments.

Lake Nona Performance Club

The Lake Nona Performance Club (LNPC) is redefining the fitness center experience with a tailored approach to whole-person health for members of all ages and skill levels with leading-edge workout equipment, stateof-art classes, and interactive programs. The Club’s exclusive amenities include access to experts in health care and exercise, aquatic center, indoor track, rock-climbing gym, and the Chopra Mind-Body Zone & Spa – a firstof-its-kind partnership bringing Deepak Chopra’s signature movement and spa programs to Lake Nona.

leAD Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Accelerator

While we’re reimagining the approach to sports and performance, startup companies in the leAD Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Accelerator are reimagining the future for tomorrow’s athletes with 5G-powered solutions.

Lake Nona Golf & Country Club

Lake Nona Golf & Country Club is home to many professional golfers who live in the neighborhood and play on the Tom Fazio-designed championship course. The Club also features a Golf Performance Center where players of all levels can polish their skills.

Drive Shack

Avid and amateur golfers can practice their swing at Drive Shack, rain or shine. The all-weather, three-story driving range features 90 hitting bays with interactive games, a retro arcade, full-service restaurant, bar, and rooftop terrace.

Lovers GUIDE

Beach Volleyball Courts

A set of sand volleyball courts at Boxi Park is where pro beach volleyball players and Lake Nona residents, Phil and Jennifer Dalhausser, run the Phil Dalhausser Beach Volleyball Academy. Together, they’re serving up youth training, adult leagues and more.

Lake Nona YMCA

The Lake Nona Y is open to all YMCA members and residents of NorthLake Park for swimming, group exercise classes, and other healthy programming. Fun fact: the facility is located inside NorthLake Park Community School where students can stay after school for sports lessons, performing arts, music classes and more.

XL Soccer World

Soccer fans can play indoors all year round at XL Soccer World. The indoor facility features two turf fields, two multi-purpose courts, offers a variety of youth programs and adult leagues for players of all ages and skill levels, and soon will be home to Orlando City Soccer School.

Nona Adventure Park

Water sport enthusiasts can wakeboard and water ski at Nona Adventure Park. Stay above water with paddle boards and kayak rentals or jump in from the floating obstacle course. Prefer to stay on land or above it? The park also includes a 60-foot climbing tower and ropes course.

Parks and Trails

Bikers and joggers love our 40+ miles of trails connecting you to community playgrounds and parks, green spaces and more. Our trails are great for walking too and give you one more reason to move your body, get some fresh air, and soak up the Florida sunshine.

Lake Nona is the perfect place to practice, play and perfect your game.

Art as Therapy

HEALING THROUGH

While traditional cognitivebehavioral therapy is one way to achieve clarity and rehabilitation for mental health ailments, research increasingly points to the value of art and music as healing instruments.

Nemours Children’s Hospital

The music and art therapy programs — known as Creative Arts Therapy — at Nemours Children’s Hospital are staffed by full-time, board-certified music and art therapists that use expressive methods to support children at the hospital.

Children, especially, benefit and thrive when engaged in creative activities. The Creative Arts Therapists at Nemours provide evidence-based interventions with patients to accomplish individual goals, such as stress and pain management, selfexpression, mood regulation, coping skills and addressing other challenges that arise from difficulties that come from hospitalization and illness.

Both music and art therapy utilize unique tools to address these challenges. Some of the interventions that music therapists utilize are instrument play, song writing, singing, and relaxation through music. Art therapists use drawing, painting, clay, guided imagery and other exercises through art materials. To learn more about the Creative Arts Therapy program, visit nemours.org

Orlando VA Medical Center

Our men and women in uniform often return from their duties with mental and physical challenges that can be helped by art and music therapies. The Orlando VA Medical Center helps veterans, specifically, overcome these challenges in addition to or in lieu of traditional therapies.

After time in the military, many service people find it difficult to open up about the experiences they had that contributed to their mental health challenges — particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Art and music therapies used at the Orlando VA here in Lake Nona are specifically designed to help veterans work through their memories and assuage stress, anger and other symptoms of PTSD.

Each year, the Orlando VA Medical Center participates in a Veterans Creative Arts Festival, comprising drama, music, visual art, performing arts, creative writing and photography. The winning submissions from the festival are then sent to the VA’s National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.

In 2020, the Orlando VA also partnered with UCF for a virtual art therapy program during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic made it difficult for veterans to access the kind of mental healthcare they were used to, these two healthcare pioneers combined forces to make sure our veterans had the support they needed. To learn more about the Orlando VA’s Creative Arts Therapy program, visit va.gov/orlando-health-care/

UCF College of Medicine

Starting shortly after the UCF medical school opened in 2012, students created an art therapy organization called “Arts in Medicine.” The mission: to actively encourage artistic expression in song, written word, artwork and performances as a way to process feelings, empathy and their artistic side for students, faculty and staff at UCF College of Medicine.

From managing stress and treating serious mental health conditions like PTSD and bipolar disorder, self-expression through art and music therapy can reveal much about a patient’s subconscious, allowing them the freedom to work through these challenges and others. Drawing, sculpture, playing an instrument and singing, among other creative pursuits, opens channels in the brain to relieve negativity and stimulate positivity and joy (NIH, APA).

While art and music therapies have existed in the scientific community for decades, many effects of their methods are just being discovered. Here in Lake Nona, our health sciences partners are doing just that.

Every year the students curate a magazine of their work called The Script and produce an annual arts performance showcase in December where students, staff and faculty can perform short plays, songs and readings.

Students, faculty and staff involved in Arts in Medicine also enjoy volunteer opportunities to participate in art therapy at hospitals and clinics throughout Central Florida. To learn more about UCF College of Medicine’s Arts in Medicine program and view the latest edition of The Script, visit med.ucf.edu/arts-in-medicine

Expanding and pushing the boundaries of medical research into a more layered approach is paramount to Lake Nona’s wellness commitment. As these health sciences partners continue their efforts to show the benefit of art and music in the medical fields, they further Lake Nona’s standing as a thought leader in these areas.

Caring for the whole person means not just treating the physical body but paying as much attention to mental and emotional wellbeing.

LAKE NONA

Adding to the richness of Lake Nona’s public art program is the allnew Sculpture Garden –

an enchanting tropical enclave brimming with lush landscaping and a definitive collection of world-renowned sculptures creating an outdoor art gallery unlike any other. Lake Nona Sculpture Garden is home to one of the most recognized sculptures in the world, the iconic Charging Bull by Arturo di Modica.

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“Lake Nona Sculpture Garden is a place ripe for discovery,” said Lake Nona Director of Landscape Architecture Jeff Thompson. “From the variety of Florida-grown palms to the selection of plants and flowers, everything is designed to showcase the artwork. The landscaping has been meticulously planned so guests can discover the sculptures as they walk through the garden. You never know what’s behind the next tree or flowerbed.”

The Sculpture Garden’s layout allows guests to explore at their own pace and preference. Take a stroll through the grounds to enjoy the artwork or make a stop in one of the garden’s unexpected alcoves that feature a mix of soft seating and tables. As the sun sets, the garden comes to life with a coordinated orchestra of multi-hued lighting elements and special nightblooming flowers.

Charging Bull by Arturo di Modica

Charging Bull, often referred to as the “Wall Street Bull,” is a 7,100-pound bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica. Originally a work of guerrilla art, the sculpture was created as a symbol of the “strength and power of the American people” following the 1987 stock market crash.

Adjacent to the Wave Hotel, the Lake Nona Sculpture Garden is a 50,000 squarefoot outdoor space designed for the exploration and discovery of a distinguished selection of sculptures from one of the world’s largest private art collections, The Lewis Collection. An elegant and inviting canopy of verdant palms and fragrant flowers surround meandering walking paths through the garden’s signature sculpture collection. The Sculpture Garden is designed to evolve with a rotating collection to keep visitors engaged and introduce new artwork to the community.

From Charging Bull by Arturo di Modica to Mother and Child by Henry Moore, these major and internationally important artists and masterworks of sculpture add so much dimension to the art landscape of Central Florida. Like the Orlando Museum of Art, Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg or the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota that also has a large outdoor sculpture collection, Lake Nona is a must-see destination for art lovers.

“We see this space as an extension of the hotel – an outdoor living room,” said Suzie Yang, general manager of Lake Nona Wave Hotel. “It’s a truly one-of-a-kind location for weddings, special events, and so much more. Just like the other iconic art installations in Lake Nona, we love seeing the Sculpture Garden become a backdrop for guests celebrating life’s milestones.

The Sculpture Garden is the latest addition to Lake Nona’s vibrant community art program that is already home to dozens of public art pieces, including murals, digital art and live performances designed to create engaging experiences and stimulate learning.

GARDEN

SCULPTURE

At the heart of every good community is a blend of arts and culture. From public art installations and live music to some of Orlando’s greatest artistic institutions, Lake Nona offers plenty of chances to kick back, relax, and be inspired. In Lake Nona, arts and culture are truly part of our DNA.

Lake Nona Town Center

ART TOUR

Art is in our DNA

1. Lake Nona Sculpture Garden

The Lake Nona Sculpture Garden is a 50,000 squarefoot outdoor space designed for exploration and discovery.

2. Global Angel Wings Project

Colette Miller created the Global Angel Wings Project in 2012, and brought them to Lake Nona in 2018.

3. The Beacon and Code Wall

Located in Town Center, “The Beacon” is a six-story landmark with a visual experience of video, music and interactive elements. Alongside stands “Code Wall,” an installation of specialized dichroic glass with messages written in binary code.

4. Lake Nona Sign & Prismatic

The mural’s cascade of color and artistic sign transforms a Town Center chiller plant into an Instagram-worthy artistic display.

5. Nature Sculptures

Created in Argentina and made from re-purposed materials, dozens of these sculptures are located throughout the Lake Nona community.

6. DISCO Dog Sculpture

The friendly and photogenic 35-foot tall stainless steel Labrador sculpture welcomes visitors to Town Center and was named by the community via an online poll.

7. Glass House

Situated in Laureate Park Village Center, “Glass House” is a stunning work of installation art that utilizes reclaimed materials and pulls cues from sustainable urban design and American folk art.

8. Equinox

Covering nearly a full block along Tavistock Lakes Blvd, this mural on the Pixon facade is an eye catcher thanks to its use of vibrant shapes and colors.

9. Qui Studio Sculptures

Designed to promote collaboration and acceleration of groundbreaking ideas, groundbreaking ideas, this sculpture is located in the outdoor courtyard of the GuideWell Innovation Center.

10. leAD Art Scene

Located in the Verizon 5G Lab, this art is inspired by circuit board patterns found in technology, and geometric patterns taken from acceleration graphs.

11. Pixon Art Scene

Pixon’s art scene includes custom artwork created with printed digital artwork, chalk and spray paint can be admired from the outside and inside.

12. Brain Freeze

This 9,000-squarefoot mural give Pixon’s exterior the appearance of varying height and colorful emerging towers, creating a skyline that differs from the architecture of the building.

Meet JEFRË, Lake Nona’s Resident Artist and Partner in Creating ‘Home’

Lake Nona is passionate about partnering with creatives — writers, artists, cultural influencers — to showcase their talent, bring art to our community, and ultimately create the iconic spaces that have become community hubs. With the goal of striking the balance between art and function, we relish opportunities to take the ordinary and create an extraordinary place for our residents and visitors to enjoy and remember for a lifetime.

One of those creatives is internationally renowned large-format artist, JEFRË, who lives in Lake Nona and whose artforms have become community landmarks locally and globally.

Residents and visitors to the area can see JEFRË’s work most prominently as the Beacon and Code Wall on the Lake Nona Town Center parking garage and DISCO, the giant, geometric Labrador retriever that greets all as they enter the Town Center.

But before JEFRË started creating public art for Tavistock and Lake Nona, he was a landscape architect. After a serious health crisis, he shifted his focus toward art, entering competitions and quickly rising to acclaim. He won eight of the 12 contests he had entered, and in doing so, discovered a new calling in life.

With that renown on his resume, JEFRË started developing art projects for office buildings, which quickly evolved to include interior art in order to obtain their certificate of occupancy.

Through mutual connections, JEFRË met with Lake Nona master planners originally to create a piece of art to line the stair tower wall of the Town Center garage. But soon the vision grew much larger as Lake Nona explored the opportunity to create a community landmark. Together, they transformed the entire facade of the garage into an art canvas, creating an iconic art installation that represents Lake Nona’s core values of innovation, technology and creativity.

What resulted is now the Code Wall. “From that conversation came the idea of the binary code of 0s and 1s on the side of the building, which spell out words like ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ in binary language.” For JEFRË, art and meaning coincide, translating into a business’ themes and values, and Lake Nona’s atmosphere and dedication to those values gave JEFRË, the space to create a masterwork out of what would, in normal circumstances, just be an ugly, bland concrete structure. In Lake Nona, it is JEFRË’s largest art installation.

A secret from the artist: When you through the garage exit, there’s a panel with a

decoder for the binary code. At the bottom right, there’s a long sequence that’s not part of the alphabet. “That’s my name,” says JEFRË. “That’s how I signed the garage.”

This thread of different languages — binary being the language of computers — continues throughout Lake Nona and also informs JEFRË’s artwork on the Wave Garage. Where binary speaks on the Code Wall, braille comes to life on the Wave Garage. The structure is wrapped in an aluminum skin printed with varying sizes of circle cutouts which, translated through the language of touch, spell out keywords from Lake Nona’s mission, such as “inspire” and “connect”, for the keen observer. The DNA Garage is the latest member of this linguistic trilogy, featuring DNA on its exterior: the language of life.

DISCO the Dog is Lake Nona’s “fourlegged” best friend, a 35-foot, 3,100-pound stainless steel sculpture that sits at the southeast entrance to Lake Nona Town Center. DISCO is modeled in a similar style to others of JEFRË’s large-format sculptures while being directly inspired by Lake Nona and the community.

The Lake Nona Sculpture Garden began as an art initiative designed to feature worldrenowned art in an open-air, public setting including pieces from the Lewis Collection. Lake Nona also partnered with JEFRË on this project; the Garden houses his works Faith, Empowerment, Time and Passion. The space invites visitors to explore, reflect, and discover something new.

These pieces of art in the Wave’s lush sculpture garden, along with the rest of the public art installations around Lake Nona, serve as landmarks and community hubs. In the case of the Wave Garage and Lake Nona Town Center Garage, these form the perfect synergy between art and function - places to enjoy convenience and beauty.

To JEFRË, every time he creates a new public art piece for Lake Nona, he’s helping to realize the community’s goals and build toward Lake Nona becoming a “great city.”

Central Florida is full of creatives, and Lake Nona’s dedication to innovation and creativity provides space for creatives to experiment and make their mark on the look, feel and mission of the area. JEFRË agrees, “It’s these sort of people that live here that are making this a world-class city.” And we’re not done yet. As Lake Nona continues to evolve and grow, new opportunities emerge to partner with artists in creating a beautiful and memorable place to live, work, and play.

In Lake Nona, art and architecture are intentionally blended to transform the utilitarian into memorable spaces that let residents know: you’re home.

The Canvas Restaurant menu features new American cuisine influenced by Florida’s Southern and Latin American roots. The menu focuses on seasonal and regional produce as well as an abundance of fresh, Florida seafood.

OUR EXTRAORDINARY ECOSYSTEM

How Lake Nona’s landscape architects are enhancing our area’s wildlife habitat

If you ask Lake Nona’s Director of Landscape Architecture Jeff Thompson, the best way to grow Lake Nona ecosystem is to start small. You may have noticed colorful new flowers and plants located in different pockets around the community from Lake Nona Town Center to Laureate Park. These vibrant plants have been specifically selected to attract mason bees – the queen bee of pollinators. Mason bees are 100x more effective at pollinating than honeybees.

“Mason bees are terrific pollinators and are key to sustaining our ecosystem by helping plants reproduce,” said Thompson. “And they’re solitary unlike honeybees. This makes them much more docile and they can adapt better to a modern suburban environment like Lake Nona.”

But mason bees aren’t the only insects buzzing into Lake Nona. Blooming nectar plants are also attracting butterflies. Did you know that Florida is home to more than 200 species of butterflies? From Monarchs and Swallowtails to Zebra Longwings (our state butterfly), there are so many different species that have a home in Lake Nona. Starting your own at-home butterfly garden is easier than you think. Visit LakeNona.com for some tips from Jeff on how you can build one at home.

Rising above the flowerbeds are the ecosystem’s foundation – trees. And in Lake Nona, we have a lot of them. From conservation areas to new landscaping additions, trees are crucial to a productive ecosystem.

Since 2018, Lake Nona’s tree relocation program has moved more than 600 trees, including oaks, palms, crepe myrtles, and maples, to new homes throughout the community. These mature trees add immediate value to the Lake Nona ecosystem. Thanks to their wide canopies, mature trees provide shade, and nesting and sheltering space for birds, mammals and insects.

In the Lake Nona Sculpture Garden, nearly 300 hand-selected, Florida-grown palm trees joined the Lake Nona ecosystem providing habitats for birds like grackles, wrens and cardinals. In addition to the palms, the garden features climbing vines, fragrant shrubs including ylang-ylang, gardenia and nightblooming jasmine that will bloom seasonally. Beyond the Sculpture Garden, the surrounding meadow features a mix of native plants for pollinators including wildflowers and the Powderpuff Mimosa – a versatile groundcover plant that blooms all summer long with cheerful pink flowers.

Home to more than 1,000 acres of lakes and waterways, the bodies of water in Lake Nona also play a critical role in our community’s ecosystem. To help the lakes and waterways thrive, the Lake Nona landscaping team focuses on planting on the water’s littoral shelf – the area between the body of water and the banks surrounding it. When planted, it creates a fertile border around the water adding to both the function and beauty of the area. In fact, littoral plants are one of the most productive parts of the ecosystem. These plants provide food and shelter for fish and clean the water. As the waterway thrives, it begins to attract larger fish, reptiles, mammals and birds expanding the ecosystem.

Earth is home to an aweinspiring array of ecosystems –from the exotic rainforest and arid desert to the familiar Florida swampland –where multiple layers of living things work together, dependent on each other to thrive.

And while each ecosystem is unique, none are quite as special as the one where we live. In Lake Nona, our community is home to countless ecosystems – from

Thanks to Lake Nona’s landscaping team, I have plenty of plants to eat. Oh deer, they are tasty!

Lake Nona is the fastest-growing community in Orlando, and it’s no surprise why.

A HO M E F OR EVERYONE

Explore our engaging neighborhoods and discover how to live life the Lake Nona way.

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LAKE NONA OFFERS

COLLECTION OF HOME OPTIONS,

FROM CONTEMPORARY APARTMENTS AND TOWNHOMES TO SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES AND SPACIOUS ESTATES.

Laureate Park kids can make the most of sunny Florida days by playing at the neighborhood playgrounds complete with custom features created with little ones in mind.

Dockside is the venue for many community events, including yoga classes, neighborhood gatherings, and celebrations of all kinds. It can also be rented for private events.

Visit docksidelakenona.com

Brightly colored bungalows, townhomes, cottages and multistory homes are complemented by modern design and technology features, all situated around a Village Center with a resort-style Aquatic Center, LP Fit fitness center, Dockside event venue, Canvas Restaurant & Market, shops, schools, and Tom Fruin’s Glass House.

Situated in the Laureate Park Village Center is artist Tom Fruin’s Glass House, a stunning work of installation art that utilizes reclaimed materials and celebrates overlooked landmarks by pulling cues from urban design and American folk art.

LP Fit is a 3,200-squarefoot, state-of-the-art fitness facility for Laureate Park residents.

The Laureate Park community gardens offer residents the chance to grow their own fresh fruits, veggies and herbs.

Lake Nona is home to the nation’s longest running shuttle program.

Miles of multi-use trails meander throughout Laureate Park to inspire active, healthy living.

Canvas Restaurant & Market features chef-driven cuisine accented with Florida seafood and an adjacent market, where guests can peruse the handcurated collection of goods.

Laureate Park’s beautifully manicured pocket parks provide quiet spaces to walk through, get back to nature, and connect with neighbors. All with the comfort and convenience of being close to home.

Hundreds of community events happen in Laureate Park each year including weekly Yoga and Meditation classes, live music and holiday celebrations.

Laureate Park’s fourlegged friends are invited to roam freely in the neighborhood dog parks.

The resort-style Aquatic Center features a splash pool complete with deck jets and water cannons, a tranquil pool with private cabanas and a lap pool with five junior Olympic lap lanes.

LAUREATE PARK

Craft Homes

CALL: 888.208.8041

VISIT: CRAFTHOMES.COM

TOWNHOMES

2–3 Bedrooms

2–2.5 Bathrooms From 1,650 Sq. Ft.

Mercer Model Home & Sales Center: 13450 Gabor Ave

SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

3–5 Bedrooms

2–4.5 Bathrooms From 1,773 Sq. Ft.

David Weekley Homes

CALL: 407.478.5933

VISIT: DAVIDWEEKLEYHOMES.COM

SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

2-5 Bedrooms

2-4 Bathrooms From 1,422 Sq. Ft.

Reef Model Home & Sales Center: 13575 Granger Ave

Dream Finders Homes

CALL: 888.208.8041

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SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

3-5 Bedrooms

2-3.5 Bathrooms From 1,976 Sq. Ft.

Talbot Model Home & Sales Center: 8704 Crick Alley

LAUREL POINTE

Laurel Pointe is an intimate, luxury neighborhood of single-family homes with water or preserve views built with Toll Brothers’ commitment to quality, value, and craftsmanship. Conveniently located close to A-rated Orange County schools and a short drive from Orlando International Airport, Laurel Pointe is near top shopping, dining, arts, and recreation destinations, including Lake Nona Town Center.

Toll Brothers

CALL: 407.248.5727

VISIT: LAURELPOINTELAKENONA.COM

SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

3-7 Bedrooms

2-6 Bathrooms

From 2,976 Sq. Ft.

GATHERINGS OF LAKE NONA

Gatherings® of Lake Nona is a 55+ Active Adult Community featuring new condos with elevator access, offering lifestyle-focused, amenity-heavy, low-maintenance condominiums and prime location, within walking distance of Lake Nona Town Center, the VA Medical Center and Laureate Park. Each home has a private balcony, a one-car garage and residents have access to a private pool, clubhouse and outdoor recreation within the community.

Beazer Homes

CALL: 321.445.5050

VISIT: GATHERINGSOFLAKENONA.COM

55+ CONDOS

2-3 Bedrooms

2 Bathrooms From 1,368 Sq. Ft.

Model Home & Sales Center: 7573 Laureate Blvd.

Welcoming you to the future of luxury living.

Lake Nona Realty offers an elevated home-buying and selling experience with concierge service and decades of neighborhood expertise. We don’t just show you Lake Nona, we immerse you in it, giving you a sense of what it feels like to live in a place imbued with art, music, sports, nature and techfocused, community amenities that put you at the center of future-forward living.

We know Lake Nona and the people more closely than anyone. After all, Lake Nona is in our name.

LAKE NONA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB

Recognized as one of the top private golf and country clubs in the world, Lake Nona Golf & Country is a sanctuary of luxury estate homes and superb amenities nestled along the shores of Lake Nona.

Members can enjoy a wealth of amenities, including a Tom Fazio-designed, championship golf course; a fully equipped golf performance center; a 40,000-square-foot Clubhouse with an 18-room guest lodge; a Bath & Racquet Club with an allinclusive fitness center, along with state-of-the-art tennis and pickleball courts, a resort-style, lakeside pool, and outstanding water-based recreation.

MEMBERSHIP: 407.209.1200

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SUMMERDALE PARK

Craft Homes

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Dream Finders Homes

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SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

3-5 Bedrooms

2-5.5 Bathrooms

From 2,069 Sq. Ft.

SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

3-6 Bedrooms

2.5-3.5 Bathrooms

From 2,235 Sq. Ft.

Located in the southern portion of Lake Nona along Boggy Creek Road, Summerdale Park is the newest Lake Nona neighborhood featuring a community pool and high speed fiber-optic internet.

ISLES OF LAKE NONA

Isles of Lake Nona is a luxury, gated community featuring single-family homes, townhomes and bungalows with open-concept floor plans, designer finishes and energy-efficient features by Pulte Homes. With homes built on a large inter-connected network of ponds, homeowners can enjoy beautiful, scenic water views in a premier Lake Nona location.

Pulte Homes

CALL: 407.805.1637

VISIT: PULTE.COM/ISLESOFLAKENONA

Model Home & Sales Center:

10774 Pahokee Beach Place

TOWNHOMES

3-4 Bedrooms

2.5-3 Bathrooms

From 1,652 Sq. Ft.

SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES

2-7 Bedrooms

2-6.5 Bathrooms

From 1,889 Sq. Ft.

BUNGALOWS

3-5 Bedrooms

2.5-3 Bathrooms

From 1,756 Sq. Ft.

LAKENONAARIEL.COM

407.313.2660

14001 BENVOLIO CIRCLE ORLANDO, FL 32824

APARTMENTS

Ariel, a luxury apartment community in Lake Nona, features one-, two- and threebedroom apartments. Awarded the National Green Building Standard™ Silver Level Certification, Ariel Apartments are built with environmentally conscious designs including high-energy efficient windows, LED lighting and ENERGY STAR rated stainless steel appliances. Each resident can access a 24-hour fitness club featuring Technogym© equipment and virtual classes. The community is pet friendly and includes a dog park, pet washing station and agility course.

LAKENONACONCORDE.COM

833.396.1603

10105 SELTEN WAY ORLANDO, FL 32827

Lake Nona Concorde offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment homes situated within the new Lake Nona Greenwood mixed-use development, providing shops, restaurants, and services right outside your door. Here you’ll enjoy vacation-inspired living every day, where the comforts of home and the luxuries of a resort stay come standard.

LIVEATLANDONHOUSE.COM

407.313.2107

7010 LAKE NONA BOULEVARD ORLANDO, FL 32827

LandonHouse Apartments provides people seeking a vibrant, urban lifestyle a new place to call home. Residents can rent a one-, two- or three-bedroom apartment, or choose an open studio floor plan for true “urban” living. All 279 apartments are accented by ten-foot ceilings and great views of the expanding Lake Nona Town Center. Amenities include a resort-style pool and green spaces, a game and media center featuring billiards, shuffleboard and retro arcade games, and a state-of-the-art fitness center. Additional amenities include a large outdoor pavilion with a fire pit and grilling area, a pet spa with grooming area, on-demand fitness classes, and an executive business conference center.

LAKENONAPIXON.COM

321.319.8755

7004 TAVISTOCK LAKES BLVD ORLANDO, FL 32827

Located adjacent to Lake Nona Town Center, Pixon’s 11-story main tower features a widerange of housing options, including micro units, studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units, a 1,730-square-foot, three-bedroom penthouse with soaring ten-foot floor-toceiling windows, upgraded stainless steel appliances, cabinetry and quartz counter tops. Residents have access to an exclusive second-story lounge with a variety of work centers and outdoor amenity deck with an expansive backyard. The urban-inspired apartment community also features electric car charging stations and bicycle storage. The 24-hour gym features Technogym© equipment with on-demand fitness classes.

LAKENONAWATERMARK.COM

407.313.4663

7650 LOWER GATEWAY LOOP ORLANDO, FL 32827

Located near Lake Nona’s Sports & Performance District, Lake Nona WaterMark is a collection of 278 luxury apartments with six unique floor plans offering spacious one-, two- and three-bedroom homes with striking features at every turn. The 7,515-squarefoot community clubhouse boasts a zero-entry resort-style pool, fireside veranda, outdoor kitchen, and a business center.

VILLAGE WALK & ENCLAVE AT VILLAGEWALK

VillageWalk blends resort-style living with a unique neighborhood design, creating a new concept of living in Central Florida. The neighborhood Town Center is connected by bridges and canals leading to lighted walking trails, swimming pools, parks and sport courts. The VillageWalk Town Center includes conveniences such as a café, salon, post office, bank, gas station and fitness center.

NORTHLAKE PARK

Situated on 500 acres in the northernmost point of Lake Nona, the NorthLake Park community offers single- and multi-family homes in addition to contemporary apartments. This expansive neighborhood is home to an award-winning school and YMCA, Olympic pool, sport courts and fields, and a dog park.

SOMERSET CROSSINGS

Somerset Crossings is a townhome community by Pulte Homes featuring open-concept floor plans and resortstyle amenities including a pool, cabana and playground. Residents enjoy easy access to major highways, such as SR 417 and the Beachline (SR 528), and conveniently located near Lake Nona Town Center and Orlando International Airport. Somerset Crossings is located in the Orange County School District. Surrounding schools include: A-Rated Wyndham Lakes Elementary, South Creek Middle, and Cypress Creek High School.

SOMERSET PARK

Somerset Park is a gated neighborhood located in the western portion of Lake Nona. Home collections from Century Homes and M/I Homes bring a wide variety of choices for homebuyers. This neighborhood features a pool, dog park and playgrounds.

DESIGN YOUR DREAM HOME

Access to natural light, adding materials or textures like a natural wood grain, proximity to the outdoors, paint colors and accessibility of fresh air are known to increase wellbeing by reducing stress and boosting your mood. A study from Harvard Medical School found that spending time outside has noticeable benefits for physical and mental health resulting in increased levels of vitamin D, a happier mood, and improved concentration.

Design a Healthy Home in Laureate Park

David Weekley Homes uses large windows, french doors and seamless sliding doors to let natural light in and create flexible indoor-outdoor living space. And when building a home with David Weekley Homes, homebuyers work closely with a Design Consultant to customize the home from floors to cabinets to lighting and more, choosing the finishes and fixtures that will turn your home into the home of your dreams.

As a Florida homebuilder, Craft Homes prioritizes natural light and outdoor space with glass garage doors and windows around every corner. The team at Craft Homes works with each homeowner to build a beautiful, purposefully built home that enhances your life through technology and design. They believe that your home should be about fitting your surroundings to the life you want.

Dream Finders Homes offer expansive covered breezeways and porches that allow residents to create a functional outdoor living space with access to fresh air that’s shaded from the Florida sun. At the Design Studio, homebuyers can select designer flooring, lighting, and home automation and energy savings options to add even more value to the home.

Laureate Park’s custom homebuilders, Arturo Barcellona Homes, Envy Homes and DeVoe Custom Homes offer floorplans that maximizes indoor-outdoor flow from the great room onto a covered porch large enough for a summer kitchen and seating and layouts designed to maximize your lot’s natural features.

Meet WHIT

WHIT (Wellness Home built on Innovation and Technology) — a prototype home where entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies test new wellness-based home technologies that can have a major impact on how we live — is a unique development pioneered as a living lab located in Laureate Park.

Fred Maxik, founder of Lighting Science and a featured partner at WHIT, says natural light is as important as food to our wellbeing because it is a nutrient our body consumes and reacts to in so many ways.

WHIT offers features like a sleep sanctuary with circadian lighting and black-out shades, a wellness kitchen, meditation space, bathrooms that monitor health metrics, an edible garden in the backyard, dynamic lighting with the latest technologies for fitness, rest and relaxation and more. The building itself uses low-VOC paint, soundproof insulation and HUE lighting.

In addition to features promoting wellbeing within the home, Laureate Park provides plenty of opportunities to support a healthy lifestyle outside of the home including pocket parks, playgrounds, community gardens, dog parks, miles of trails, a bike share program, aquatic center, and residents-only fitness center.

Lake Nona is setting the standard for today’s modern healthy home.

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With parks around every corner and miles of paved and unpaved trails, there are plenty of reasons to get outside in Lake Nona. From neighborhood gyms and community parks to one-of-a-kind sports venues, miles of trails, and engaging public art, Lake Nona is designed to support healthy living. Our amenities provide you with all the tools to be the healthiest, happiest you.

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HAPPY HEALTHY

YEAR-ROUND

Get Outside

Breathe your way into the weekend on Saturday mornings in Crescent Park with a complimentary hour-long yoga class. The comfortably paced classes allow time for beginners to find their poses and advanced yogis to find their edges.

Visit one or both of Lake Nona’s two City of Orlando parks: Heroes Community Park and McCoy Community Park. Within walking distance of Laureate Park Elementary School, Heroes Community Park features four multi-use fields lit for night activities. The park also has plenty of green space and a 12-foot-wide trail for walking and jogging. Or, play ball at the McCoy Community Park located on Dowden Road near NorthLake Park. The 25-acre park features a pony field, softball field, and two Little League fields perfect for practicing your swing. The park also connects to Lake Nona’s robust trail system.

One-of-a-kind Facilities

Take a swim lesson or fitness class at Lake Nona’s YMCA Family Center open to all YMCA members and residents of NorthLake Park. Nearby, the 100-court USTA National Campus offers a chance for families with children under 10 to play tennis together in the Nemours Family Zone in addition to a variety of individual programs for kids and adults. The National Campus also hosts free programs for military veterans, active service members, and anyone with physical disabilities.

Pros and amateurs alike can get in the game at the XL Soccer World located off Narcoossee Road near the Valencia College Campus. The 50,000-square-foot stateof-the-art facility offers a variety of youth programs and adult leagues for players of all ages and skill levels with two turf fields and two multipurpose courts all under one roof for year-round, air-conditioned play.

Looking to harness a particular skill? Practice your golf swing at one of Drive Shack’s 90 full-service all-weather hitting bays featuring interactive games designed for all skill levels. Or you can get your heart rate up at any of Lake Nona’s boutique fitness studios located on the ground floor of Pixon: Club Pilates, Rukus Cycling Studios, and Neighborhood Barre.

Thrill seekers can head over to Nona Adventure Park – an outdoor water park packed with activities for all ages and skill levels. Providing an adventure like no other, the park features a floating aqua obstacle course, cable park for wakeboarding and water skiing, and a 60-foot climbing tower and ropes course.

Community Art

Lake Nona’s public art program is filled with countless opportunities to explore, engage, and stimulate your mind – from digital displays on “The Beacon” and sunsets over the “Glass House” to handcrafted sculptures and colorful murals. We believe art harnesses an energy that elevates our community and enhances our mission to inspire human potential. By collaborating with artists and innovative thinkers, we use imagination to create an environment that sparks creativity.

Lake Nona Performance Club

The Lake Nona Performance Club is one of the most comprehensive and thoughtfully curated clubs in the region providing a tailored approach to whole-person health for members of all ages and skill levels. LNPC redefines the fitness center experience featuring leading edge workout equipment, state-of-art classes, and interactive programs driven by the latest performance technology and amenities.

Move Nona is Lake Nona’s bold new approach to transportation, providing community visitors and residents with a variety of efficient and inter-connected ways to get around.

Be sure to download the Ride Beep to access autonomous shuttle schedules, routes and stop locations.

PLACE MAKING

MAKING

They challenged themselves to think outside the box and develop solutions to problems faced by urban and suburban communities for decades. Perhaps most importantly, they set out to develop a place where peaceful residential life, vibrant recreation, and cutting-edge innovation could take place in seamless harmony. In short, a place people love to live, work, stay, and play.

This multifaceted approach to community design and planning – placemaking – is undertaken with the goal of creating a strong connection between people and the

spaces they share and gather. Lake Nona is dedicated to the art of placemaking and developing the cohesive, forward-thinking, beautiful place we warmly call home.

From innovative infrastructure including roads, lighting, and stormwater management, to commissioning public art meant to create beautiful and memorable community icons (or maybe a mix of both), even Lake Nona’s smallest details were purposefully and thoughtfully designed. The ultimate goal of this planning: to create such a seamlessly resilient and enjoyable environment for residents and visitors that Lake Nona living has become second nature.

The Lake Nona we know and love today is the product of years of thoughtful, holistic and innovative development.

It’s this commitment to elevating the spaces our residents share that makes Lake Nona a uniquely special place to live.

The community’s designers, the Tavistock Group, wanted to create a place where its residents and visitors felt their best and lived like nowhere else.

Lake Nona’s educational institutions develop holistic students from Pre-K to Ph.D.

Our schools emphasize the development of cultural sensibilities and foster a love of the arts, while our students reap the benefits. Research shows that art activities develop brain capacity in early childhood. As they grow, continued art education engages children’s senses and supports academic, emotional, social and sensory skill growth.

EDUCATION

Students

From performing arts to visual arts, Lake Nona’s schools thoughtfully invest in creative education and believe in the power of this holistic approach. Students have never-ending opportunities to learn, grow, and create at every age and stage - from their first classroom to their post-secondary graduation. The next generation of creators, thinkers, and citizens are growing up right here in Lake Nona.

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of the Arts: How Lake Nona’s Schools are developing innovative, well-rounded citizens.

Nona’s education ecosystem is designed to develop the next generation of innovative, well-rounded thinkers, community members and citizens.

Preschool:

Arts Education Benefits Even the Littlest Learners

For the littlest creators, preschools begin with easy musical instruments like xylophones and keyboards to start learning about sounds. Singing is also an important part of education for tiny learners. Lake Nona preschools like Amazing Explorers, Goddard School and The Learning Experience place focus on these ideas.

At the Primrose School’s kindergarten, visual and creative arts are intended to stimulate the imagination and creative thinking. The school has a proprietary program called Primrose Early Art Masters where children discover contemporary artists and practice their techniques to create their own masterpieces.

Elementary School: Growing Kids Learn How Art Shapes Their Worlds

Across the three major primary schools in Lake Nona — NorthLake Park Community School, Laureate Park Elementary School and Village Park Elementary School — students learn through music, art and theatrical performances with opportunities to showcase their talents and interests throughout the community.

Field trips to see plays, musical performances, and visits to local museums introduce Lake Nona’s students to the visual and performing arts, too. Through all these mediums, the kids are encouraged to expand their minds and discover new ways to interact with their world and express themselves.

Middle School: Cue the Drama — Arts Programs Enhance Teens’ Lives

A-rated Lake Nona Middle School’s performing arts programs in chorus, band and orchestra are led by experienced artists with decades of experience in performance and music education. Each believes that music is a lifelong skill that all children should have access to, and lead their programs with excellence in mind, consistently garnering accolades from local and state competitions and festivals.

Middle school students with interest in visual arts also have the opportunity to choose a Fine Arts elective during their academic semesters including a 2D or 3D visual art class or creative photography class using digital or traditional photography methods. Student art is often shown throughout the campus to highlight students’ works, giving these middle school artists the opportunity to share with their peers and develop a sense of pride and ownership in their talents.

High School: Arts Education as a Window to the Future

The A-rated Lake Nona High School gives students the opportunity to get a head start on college with its partnership with Valencia College, offering students the opportunity to complete an A.A. degree during their time in high school.

Lake Nona High School also offers more than 20 performing arts classes and clubs, including music theory and stagecraft classes, guitar and piano classes and four different choral performance groups. The theater department at Lake Nona High School brings both contemporary and classical performances to the stage, most recently with “Something Rotten,” a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Outside of performing the halftime show during football season, the Sound of the Lions marching band at Lake Nona High School also shows off their skills at parades, pep rallies, events around Lake Nona and at events statewide. Participating in the band allows students a strong sense of community along with developing their technical performance skills.

The visual arts are also a main part of Lake Nona High School’s curriculum, with a dozen different classes ranging from art history and drawing to ceramics and painting. The Visual Arts Department strives to provide students with the opportunity to create and discover in an enriching and educational environment.

Post-Secondary Education: When the Arts and Career Preparedness Collide

The original plans for Lake Nona focused on the area as a hub for higher learning and advancement in technology and healthcare. It should be no surprise, then, that both the UCF Health Sciences Campus, which includes the College of Medicine, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences and newly opened UCF Lake Nona Hospital, and the UF Research and Academic Center, home to the UF College of Pharmacy, are located in Lake Nona.

Additionally, the UCF College of Medicine’s Arts in Medicine student organization provides opportunities for students, faculty and staff to integrate art and science. Art and music therapy are shown to be beneficial to healing patients, and exploring these integrations allows students to further understand whole-person care and the accompanying benefits of art and music to providers as well as patients.

Lake Nona is looking forward to welcoming a new bilingual campus for the Inter American University of Puerto Rico (IUPR). The campus will include 187,000 square feet of academic and administrative buildings, plus on-site housing for nearly 200 students.

One of the greatest joys of interacting with little ones is getting to see the world through their creative, imaginative minds. From their earliest years of schooling to medical school match day, Lake Nona’s educational institutions are nurturing this creativity in 16,000-plus students.

Phlex, leAD Lake Nona Accelerator Alum, Leads the Lane in Swimming Wearable Tech

Lake Nona’s leAD Sports & Health Tech Accelerator program, a premier platform for nurturing startups in the sports and health technology industries, proudly showcased its first class of startups in May 2021. The program concluded with a Demo Day at Boxi Park, featuring a celebration attended by wellness icon Deepak Chopra, among other industry leaders.

Over the course of six months, the accelerator’s partnership with Lake Nona helped elevate these startups to new heights. The selective and rigorous cohort program provided mentorship, collaboration opportunities, and a supportive community for startups like Fort Lauderdale-based Phlex. The company has been revolutionizing personal fitness tracking for swimmers through innovative hardware and software systems.

Phlex’s founders, which include Olympian Marcin Cieslak, started the company out of frustration with the lack of innovation and accessibility in swimming tech compared to sports like running and cycling. As CEO, Cieslak has led the company to develop software, that includes both mobile apps for everyday swimmers and a data analysis platform for teams, that tracks important swimming metrics and synchronizes with popular wearables like the Apple Watch and Polar Verity Sense.

In exciting news, Cieslak also announced Phlex’s partnership with Polar, a leader in the sports technology industry. The collaboration merges Phlex’s swim tracking technology with Polar’s affordable and reliable wearable devices, such as the Polar Verity Sense. Cieslak expressed enthusiasm for the partnership and how it helps Phlex in it’s mission to bring innovation to the entire swimming market.

COO Harrison Gibson emphasized the importance of their work, stating, “Teams and coaches need better access to the right kinds of data, with analysis backed by sports science and physiology. Our goal is to provide that access, empowering swimmers to reach their full potential.”

Other software ignores technique metrics like stroke rate, distance per stroke and stroke efficiency, while Phlex places an

emphasis on those and other key data points. Unique to the market, Phlex aggregates and converts this information into easy to understand and actionable insights that support swimmers and coaches in their training regiments.

“We are not only building a data product, but also a community driven platform that helps you stay engaged with your swimming,” said CMO Ryan Rosenbaum. “That means taking our current industry-validated tracking technology, adding an engagement layer through rewards, leaderboards and daily challenges, and bundling that all up within a social platform.” Rosenbaum says that regardless of whether you’re just starting out on your swimming journey or training for an Olympic medal, with Phlex you can be part of a community that is behind you every step of the way.

Phlex cherishes its connection to the Lake Nona community. CEO Marcin Cieslak expressed his appreciation, saying, “Being part of the Lake Nona community has been incredibly beneficial for the growth of Phlex. We’re grateful for the opportunities, resources, and support we’ve received here.”

Following their time in the leAD Lake Nona program, Phlex has continued to evolve through the stages of startup growth as they accelerate their technology development and increase their footprint. In addition to securing key investors, they have also received notice from top journalists, including being featured in Swimming World, Wareable, and The Wall Street Journal.

As a community founded on health, wellbeing, human performance, business innovation and education, Lake Nona’s network of both established muti-national businesses and entrepreneurial startups makes the leAD Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Accelerator program second to none for sports and fitness entrepreneurs looking to take their product and business to the next level. Combining the innovation and athletics background of leAD with Lake Nona’s exceptional infrastructure to support startups like Phlex, future cohorts will join a legacy of innovation and excellence in their fields.

Lake Nona is a 17-square-mile community built on the premise that a collaborative effort can spark profound innovation.

AN ECOSYSTEM FOR

COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION

This fast-growing, neo-urban environment was created with the building blocks for the future, and is pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a forward-thinking community. Connectivity, both physical and digital, is the main engine that powers Lake Nona’s innovation ecosystem and is inspiring businesses, institutions and individuals to thrive.

From its technologically rich and innovative infrastructure to its globally recognized clusters of excellence, Lake Nona was created with a foundational strategy that guides not only what is needed today, but what is going to be required decades from now to remain a healthy, vibrant and innovative community.

BUILT BETTER FOR BUSINESS

LAKE NONA WILL BE HOME TO THE

NATION’S FIRST VERTIPORT

– A HUB LOCATION SERVING ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING (EVTOL) AIRCRAFT

ORLANDO’S GROWTH RATE IS THE 2ND FASTEST OF THE 30 LARGEST CITIES IN THE U.S., WITH THE REGION WELCOMING MORE THAN 1,000 NEW RESIDENTS EVERY WEEK

ORLANDO IS RANKED #1 MOST CONNECTED CITY IN AMERICA

WITH ALMOST 72,000 STUDENTS, UCF IS ONE OF THE LARGEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE NATION

With more than 25,000 miles of fiber installed, Lake Nona is Florida’s

Lake Nona is FIRST GIGABIT COMMUNITY

THE LEAD LAKE NONA SPORTS & HEALTH TECH ACCELERATOR IS A NEW, FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND CUTTING-EDGE ACCELERATOR DESIGNED TO BOLSTER TECHNOLOGY START-UP COMPANIES IN CENTRAL FLORIDA.

550K+ STUDENTSEDUCATIONHIGHERWITHIN 100 MILES OF ORLANDO

ORLANDO HAS OVER $10 BILLION IN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS UNDERWAY

THERE ARE FOUR COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES LOCATED IN LAKE NONA

ORLANDO NAMED IN TOP 20 OF INC.’S 2020 SURGE CITIES LIST, CITING ORLANDO’S TRANSFORMATION INTO A RISING HIGH-TECH HUB

LAKE NONA’S 650-ACRE HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES CLUSTER ENCOMPASSES MILLIONS OF SQUARE FEET OF CLINICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND LABORATORY SPACE FOR SOME OF THE NATION’S TOP HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITIES, AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

ORLANDO IS TOP 10 IN THE NATION

TO FIND A NEW, HIGH-PAYING JOB WITHOUT SACRIFICING QUALITY OF LIFE

LONGEST-RUNNING SINGLE-SITE AUTONOMOUS SHUTTLE NETWORK

IN THE U.S.

Orlando is ranked NO. 1 BEST PLACES IN AMERICA FOR STARTING A BUSINESS

A LIVING LAB ENVIRONMENT

THAT IS HOME TO A VARIETY OF SETTINGS, USES, AND INDUSTRIES TO TEST AND REFINE IDEAS FROM RESIDENTIAL AND RECREATIONAL TO HEALTH CARE AND HOSPITALITY

UCF PRODUCES MORE ENGINEERING GRADUATES WHO GET JOBS IN AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE COMPANIES THAN ANY OTHER UNIVERSITY IN THE U.S.

ORLANDO IS THE NO. 4 BEST MARKET IN U.S. FOR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

ORLANDO IS HOME TO THE WORLD’S LARGEST CLUSTER OF MODELING , SIMULATION ANDTRAINING(MS&T)ORGANIZATIONS AND SETS THE STAGE FOR VIRTUAL REALITY INNOVATION IN EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE, DEFENSE RAINING AND MORE

40% OF LAKE NONA HAS BEEN RESERVED FOR OPEN GREEN SPACE INCLUDING COMMUNITY PARKS, MORE THAN 40 MILES OF TRAILS, AND 1,000 ACRES OF LAKES AND WATERWAYS

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Last week, I had so much fun in Lake Nona. We started the day by greeting DISCO the (animal) , I even thought I saw his tail (verb) !

While we were in Town Center, guess who we saw? Our (adjective) neighbors, the (last name) We (verb) hello and headed into Chroma for (noun) , I had a (adjective) (food) - so yummy!

Nonahood Chroma

Boxi Park Glass House Beacon

When we left, the Beacon was all lit up in (favorite color) . Then we played (sport) at Crescent Park until sunset. What a day! Disco

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DIFFERENCE