BUSINESS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The Pine Hills Community Council invests its efforts directly in our community. Also, it promotes its interests at the county, state, and national levels to ensure the continued vitality of a family-friendly place to live, work, and play.

LOCAL
● Pine Hills Community Council supports 2014 Pine Hills Town Center Master Plan 
●  YMCA Swimming & Youth Grants
● Silver Star OrangeScape beautification funding – $250,000
●  Creation and Original Grant Funding of the Pine Hills Safe Neighborhoods Partnership- $180,000.   
●  ReNew Beautification & Renovation Grants, including the Breezewood Wall Restoration
● Organization & Funding of Pine Hills Strategic Planning Process – 2004 and 2010. – As a result of the task force, Orange County established a Pine Hills Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) with staff oversight to implement plans for growth and development.  The NID, along with the Pine Hills Community Council and  The surrounding neighborhoods, continue to focus on revitalization initiatives by holding community forums and establishing partnerships with private businesses, developers, and public agencies. They engage property owners and renters in protecting the area’s quality of life. As a result of business and community partnerships, including the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, there are now significant downward crime trends throughout the Pine Hills area.

STATE
● Florida State Legislative Appropriation – Removal of Abandoned 5-story Sunland Hospital and Converting to Park -$2,000,000
The Orlando Sunland Hospital was a residential facility that cared for profoundly mentally and physically disabled adults and children.   The state of Florida closed all Sunland facilities in 1983.   The building lay vacant for years afterwards, becoming a hazard to the community, and attracting kids and transients.  After a teen was critically injured falling down an abandoned elevator shaft within the fenced-off , four-story building, the Pine Hills Community Council lobbied hard to have the building leveled by the state.   $2 million was set aside by the state, and demolition was approved.   https://www.abandonedfl.com/sunland-mental-hospital-orlando/

NATIONAL
● Silver Star Road Street Lights

COMMITTEE CHAIR

BUSINESS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: SANDRA FATMI-HALL & DR. LATANYA NICHOLS
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT PERSON: JULIEN SERRANO-O’NEIL