Overview
- Board members declined Eatonville’s request for a 90-day delay to prepare a town-led proposal and signaled support for moving forward next week.
- $1 million would be paid upfront, with $13 million forgiven as milestones are completed for a greenspace and pavilion, an early learning center, a community hub and health facility, and a new town hall and history museum.
- Dr. Phillips Charities proposes housing, retail including a grocery store, a conference hotel center, medical and educational facilities, and parks, with some land to be donated back to the town.
- Town leaders are divided, with some pushing for full local ownership and stronger guarantees for taxable development, while Mayor Angie Gardner worked with the district and the nonprofit on the plan.
- OCPS holds the 117-acre site as surplus and says any project would still require Eatonville zoning approvals, with a final school board vote scheduled for Jan. 13.