The Medical Village of Winter Park

​Winter Park, FL

In May of 1995, a major grocery store abandoned their building for a new shopping center down the street. The building sat empty for ten years, slowly deteriorating with major roof leaks, pigeons, and vagrants. The building was often a target of vandalism and graffiti artists. The property was never maintained and became an eyesore of the community.

In 2004, MRI started analyzing the building for potential uses. We were asked to study the building for a potential educational facility. The due diligence studies indicated that the building was too much in a bad state to be rehabilitated for an education occupancy and too costly to be torn down.

In 2005, MRI was selected as the designer and architect to convert the building into a major medical facility. This occupancy became the ideal adaptive cost effective reuse for this dilapidated building