“The city of Oviedo is slated to get what Aventus Health LLC calls its first “medical city.”
The Winter Springs-based health care firm, which has labs, pharmacies and medical facilities, plans to break ground in the next five to six weeks on the beginnings of the $40 million, 150,000-square-foot medical city project that will create hundreds of jobs.
The two-phase project, dubbed Adventus MedCi, will be built directly behind the Oviedo in the Park neighborhood on roughly seven acres on the west side of Oviedo Boulevard and north side of Windy Pine Place, not far from the University of Central Florida.
The project will include two medical buildings and a five-story parking garage, which will be a first for Oviedo, co-founder Oliver Dawoud told Orlando Business Journal. The first phase will consist of a 60,000-square-foot medical building and a 31,000-square-foot, 1.5-level parking garage, and phase two will include a 40,000-square-foot medical building and another 3.5 levels of the parking garage, according to city documents. The building addresses will be 345 and 327 Oviedo Blvd., and the garage will be at 339 Oviedo Blvd.
Further, Dawoud and his father Nagi Youssef, both Oviedo locals, said their company will relocate its Winter Springs office to Adventus MedCi.
In addition to Aventus’s administration and health care team, the two buildings also will house:
-An urgent care clinic
-A state-of-the-art surgery center
-A clinical research center performing phase 1 thru 4 clinical trials
-Advanced diagnostic imaging
-An onsite pharmacy
-An onsite laboratory
-A possible cafe for the ground floor
“We are creating a one-stop shop where doctors can create can create all types of offices, from dermatologists to oncologists,” Dawoud said. “This is going to be our biggest project — we’ve been working on this for two years now.”
Aventus received conditional approval six months ago and got the vertical construction permit two weeks ago from the city of Oviedo. The project is slated to be completed within two years and is estimated to create 500-600 permanent jobs and an estimated 400 temporary construction jobs, Dawoud said.
“There’s potentially 10-15 acres of city-owned land behind us that we can expand and grow into,” Dawoud said. “You look at Lake Nona’s Medical City and where it started, and now the University of Central Florida is building a teaching hospital there. We feel like Oviedo could be like that.’’
He added that the medical growth in Oviedo with Florida Hospital announcing plans to build a freestanding emergency room is a catalyst for the planned Adventus MedCi development. “Having more ERs in the area will complement us very much so, we are going to be filling the gap for outpatients.”
ABO Sefen LLC is listed on city documents as the property owner; American Civil Engineering Co. is the project engineer/consultant; and ASD SKY Architecture Interiors Graphics is the architect/consultant. The general contractor is Charles Perry Partners Inc.”
Source: Orlando Business Journal
By: Veronica Brezina, Staff Writer, Orlando Business Journal