New 50-Story Hotel Rumored for Orlando

The tourist district has seen plenty of new growth, but there’s one site that has long sat dormant. At the corner of the Beachline Expressway and I-4 sits an undeveloped 20-acre site that at one time was supposed to host a large observation wheel. While that project fell through (and the Orlando Eye ensured that it would never be revived), a new hotel project is in the works for the site, according to The Orlando Weekly.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that a 1,200-room high-end convention hotel is now in the works for the site on Westwood Boulevard. The site recently was sold for $11.5 million.

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