Lake County Florida Hotel & Hospitality Real Estate

From friendly bed and breakfast inns to posh resorts, Lake County is home to Central Florida’s best variety of lodging options. Lake County sports a mix of cozy inns, family-owned motels, spacious vacation rentals and prestigious national chain hotels. Additional popular lodging options for this naturally gifted area are cabins, campgrounds and recreational-vehicle parks. Just minutes from Central Florida’s theme parks, these lodging choices provide the perfect respite for visiting families and Sunshine State tourists. Hotel room capacities range from 50 to 85 rooms each on average. 

What there is not enough of and will be a need for in the foreseeable future are conference/convention/hotel facilities with at least 200 plus room capacity. There is currently only one facility in Lake County to accommodate conventions or conferences of any size and that is the Mission Inn Resort & Club, which has a 200 room capacity, but is located in a rural area of Lake County. The transportation corridors of the Florida Turnpike, SR 27, SR 19 and Hwy 441 offer many opportunities for Hotel/Conference Facility locations. 

There are many opportunities for additional accommodations with Lake County’s close proximity to Orlando’s theme parks from Walt Disney World Resort and Universal Studios Orlando to SeaWorld Orlando and Legoland Florida not to mention NASCAR’s Daytona 500 and Coca Cola 400, Daytona Bike Week, Leesburg Bike Fest, Mount Dora Art Festival and many more events that Lake County hosts every year. Many of Lake County’s premiere events will draw upwards to 300,000 people for one event. With those kinds of numbers there are never enough accommodations to handle that many people.  

Lake County is home to major national fishing tournaments like ESPN Bassmaster Elite Tour, Bassmaster Open Series, Crappie Masters National Championship and many others that need accommodations for up to 500 anglers, staff and production personnel. Finding space for their seminars and award banquets is always a challenge. This is another reason we need conference facilities that can hold up to at least 500 with ability to cater and feed them. There is currently no facility in Lake County that can accommodate them a except the college gymnasium. 

There are several locations for an opportunity to develop and build a premier Hotel Convention Center with a waterfront venue that would draw from not only Lake County but also from the surrounding areas. There is a great need for this type of facility and the county government would be very supportive. The current Lake County Commission is a very proactive, “business friendly” group and are developing new incentive programs through their economic development department to attract new businesses and investment, as well as growing existing companies already located here. 

The Florida Green Lodging Program was established in 2004 by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection with the intent of recognizing and rewarding environmentally conscientious lodging facilities in the state. Gov. Charlie Christ signed an executive order effective July 1, 2008, which states agencies shall contract for meeting and conference space only with hotels or conference facilities that have received the "Green Lodging" designation from the Department of Environmental Protection for best practices in water, energy, and waste efficiency standards, unless the responsible state agency head makes a determination that neither viable alternative exists.

If you are interested in getting in on the ground-floor of the outstanding hospitality profit opportunities in our Lake County Florida, please contact us.  We are here to help and assist you with your project, whatever the budget or objective.