ORLANDO INDUSTRIAL7.2%+0.4%
MIAMI MULTIFAMILY$3,420+1.2%
TAMPA RETAIL4.8%-0.2%
US-192 CORRIDOR$340/SF+4.1%
30Y FIXED MORTGAGE6.72%-0.08%
FED PROBABILITY (PAUSE)92%+2%
ORLANDO INDUSTRIAL7.2%+0.4%
MIAMI MULTIFAMILY$3,420+1.2%
TAMPA RETAIL4.8%-0.2%
US-192 CORRIDOR$340/SF+4.1%
30Y FIXED MORTGAGE6.72%-0.08%
FED PROBABILITY (PAUSE)92%+2%
ORLANDO INDUSTRIAL7.2%+0.4%
MIAMI MULTIFAMILY$3,420+1.2%
TAMPA RETAIL4.8%-0.2%
US-192 CORRIDOR$340/SF+4.1%
30Y FIXED MORTGAGE6.72%-0.08%
FED PROBABILITY (PAUSE)92%+2%

What is the Sunshine Corridor's relevance to hotel investment and how speculative is it?

The Sunshine Corridor, the proposed connection linking Orlando International Airport to the I-Drive/attractions corridor and eventually to SunRail and potentially Tampa via Brightline, is relevant to hotel investment at two levels of certainty. At the confirmed level: the SunRail Board voted unanimously on April 24, 2025 to advance a $6M Preliminary Design and Engineering study, funded by FDOT ($2M), Universal ($2M), and four Central Florida jurisdictions ($500K each). The OCCC station area is confirmed: Universal has donated 13 acres and a special taxing district has been formed. These are real actions with real capital committed. At the speculative level: the full Brightline I-Drive extension is not fully funded, the Tampa terminus is a 5–10 year horizon, and construction of the OIA-to-OCCC segment cannot begin before approximately 2031 per current PDE study timelines. For hotel investors, the actionable implications today are: OCCC-adjacent hotel demand is structurally growing regardless of Brightline (convention business is already expanding with the OCCC Phase 5A expansion and the TDT capital deploying $400M into Camping World Stadium renovation and arena improvements), and land positions near confirmed station areas in the OCCC district are supported by existing demand, not purely speculative TOD upside.