Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando Citizen’s ChampionsGate desk: in-depth coverage of the ChampionsGate community — its villages, golf, resort, schools, roads and local government — reported for the people who live and stay there.
Two Greg Norman courses, two opposite arguments: the International’s firm, fast Australian links and the National’s sheltered Florida parkland — design intent, restoration, and the Father/Son tournament years, in depth.
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Two Greg Norman courses, two opposite arguments: the International’s firm, fast Australian links and the National’s sheltered Florida parkland — design intent, restoration, and the Father/Son tournament years, in depth.
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From a 137-acre purchase in 1987 to Greg Norman golf, the post-9/11 Omni groundbreaking and the Lennar wave — ChampionsGate’s development history from the developer’s timeline, county districts and contemporary reporting.
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Exit 58 is ChampionsGate’s only front door — and three road programmes are rebuilding it at once: FDOT’s Moving I-4 Forward widening on both sides, CFX’s doubling of CR 532, and the Poinciana Parkway extension. Each project as its agency publishes it.
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The ChampionsGate CDD is the second government behind the gates: a Chapter 190 district dating to 1998, run by a five-member elected board, funded by assessments on the tax bill. Who sits on it, what its staff do, and how its FY2026 budget was adopted — from the district’s own records.
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800 acres, 1,005 rooms, over 255,000 square feet of meeting space and a county-named conference centre: how one resort anchors the economy of the whole ChampionsGate community.
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The Retreat, the Country Club, Stoneybrook South, the Villas and Bella Citta — what each documented village inside ChampionsGate is, and how the layered community actually fits together.
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