Southeast’s Top Projects - 5

The Peabody Orlando

Project Cost: $250 million

The long-anticipated expansion of The Peabody Orlando hotel across from the Orange County Convention Center broke ground in 2008.

Balfour Beatty Construction of Plantation, Fla., is building the $250-million, 32-story, 750-room hotel and the 300,000 sq ft of meeting space, including a 55,000-sq-ft, pillar-free ballroom. Construction went vertical in the fall. The room tower is a reinforced, cast-in-place concrete structure, and the ballroom employs structural steel.

The expansion also will add a 15,000-sq-ft spa; restaurants; a seven-story, 2,100-car parking garage; and renovation of the existing hotel. The Peabody expects to open the garage, being built by METRO Construction of Memphis, this year and its new tower in fall 2010.

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Key Facts:

Location: Orlando
Owner: Peabody Hotel Group, Memphis
Owner’s Representative: Belz Construction Co., Memphis
Contractor: Balfour Beatty Construction, Plantation, Fla.
Architect: SCA Design Group, Winter Park, Fla.
Start Date: 2008
Completion Date: Fall 2010