Orlando's Medical City at Lake Nona - A Boom To Economy And Real Estate in Central Florida

Burnham Institute for Medical Research opened in Aprilinflammatory diseases they hope to come up with
2009. It will be the major hub in Lake Nona 's "medicalanswers.Sanford Burnham's Lake Nona Campus sits
city." Burnham will be "the research anchor" for the Laten minutes from Orlando International Airport and 10
Jolla, CA's institute. It's primary focus will be cancer.miles south east of downtown Orlando in what is
Burnham has drawn support from UCF's Medicalcalled Medical City at Lake Nona.
School and a research facility constructed by theThe ecology friendly design and construction of
University of Florida to complete the $85 million dollarBurnham's campus is particularly important to its
175,000 square-foot "biotech center." Burnham Institutedevelopers. Their primary goal of making medical
will continue to advance medical technology anddiscoveries that benefit the community it serves as
stimulate job growth for "high skilled, high paying jobs"well as contributing to the lives of its employees and
to southeast Orlando 's Lake Nona.the community around it is accentuated by its glazed
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute was builtwindows and "high performance exterior glass." The
to provide an "innovative research environment" forbuilding not only makes the most of the environment's
scientists from a variety of different fields. It employsnatural landscape as it high lights the surrounding
over 750 scientists. They propose to create anplanned communities but it also adds recognition to the
environment where they'll be challenged to tacklebuilding's central purpose of benefiting the environment
some of today's most important medical issues andby lowering heating and cooling costs without
create breakthroughs. By focusing on diabetes,damaging the ecosystem and polluting the outside
cardiovascular complication, cancer, infectious, andenvironment.