Paula Merritt

Orlando Citizen — ChampionsGate Beat

Paula Merritt

ChampionsGate correspondent. Paula covers one community full-time: ChampionsGate, the 1,500-acre resort development off I-4 at Exit 58 in Osceola County — its villages and gates, its two Greg Norman golf courses, the Omni Orlando Resort, ChampionsGate Village, and the roads, schools and public bodies that serve the people who live and stay there.

Her beat runs on primary sources: the ChampionsGate Community Development District’s public records, Osceola County and its school district, the City of Davenport, FDOT District Five, and the resort’s and community’s own published documents. Figures are traced to the document they came from, and association business is reported from the public record, even-handedly — this desk covers the community; it does not take sides in it.

What she covers: the villages and neighbourhoods, gate access and community rules, golf and the resort, ChampionsGate Village dining and retail, the housing market and new development, the CDD and the homeowners associations, schools, I-4 and the CR 532 corridor, and community events.

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Paula Merritt is a staff reporter of the Orlando Citizen newsroom.