Brooklynites In Florida: Orlando developer sets Brooklyn dynamic as blueprint for new community
Visionary Orlando real estate developer Craig Ustler, president and owner of Ustler Development, plans to redevelop the Parramore neighborhood into a thriving, diverse community that he envisions being like today’s revitalized Brooklyn. That’s not an easy task when you consider that as recently as 2009, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel called it “the city’s most downtrodden community.”
Earlier this year Ustler told the Orlando Business Journal, “land in Parramore will be more valuable in 10 years than Thornton Park because of the creativity and diversity. It’s why people pay more to live in Brooklyn than SoHo in Manhattan. That’s what a great urban place does.”