Talk about a hot summer! Things are definitely heating up in the Nonahood. The pace of development is quickening and businesses are opening up and being announced left and right. Before the year is out, we’ll be seeing some great new options for dining and entertainment in Lake Nona. Construction is well underway at Nona Adventure Park, which my family and I are lucky to live a couple of blocks from. Adjacent to that is Laureate City Park, which will offer a huge area with mixed use fields for various sports. Just behind Laureate Park Elementary School, those two sites alone will bring a great array of activity opportunities soon.
Dining options have blossomed over the past year as well and the trend is only growing. I’d name off a list of the great restaurants that have opened in the past year, but I don’t want to leave anyone out. Suffice it to say: foodies will appreciate Lake Nona more and more as time goes on. We’re also expecting some exciting details about features coming to the Lake Nona Town Center very soon. Even now, infrastructure is being laid down for the future phases and some new amenities are coming sooner than I would have expected.
Jenny and I took over Nonahood News a little over a year ago, and we’ve now been running it for about half of the “life” of the paper. There’s something fitting about one husband and wife team passing the Nonahood News torch to another. When Jason and Lindsay handed the paper over to us, we had no real inkling of what was in store, but through all the ups and downs, we have no regrets. I do miss our next door neighbors but we still catch up from time to time – most recently we met them for lunch at Fishlips Waterfront Grill on the East Coast. If you haven’t been, check it out – it’s a great place and is owned by a Lake Nona resident.
One of the things that I truly love about Nonahood News is that we are able to help businesses grow by reaching our great audience (if you are reading this, that audience is you). There’s an interesting dynamic there since, without our advertisers, the newspaper simply couldn’t exist. My goal is to create the best possible product and provide great value to both our audience and our advertisers. If you see an advertisement in the newspaper, please consider the fact that these businesses care about supporting local journalism. As we increase the amount of content we create, our advertisers are the ones who allow us the opportunity to do that. We strive to do our best – if you feel that there’s anything that we can do better, please drop Jenny and I a line via publisher@nonahoodnews.com.
Finally, I want you to please look to the left of this article. The people listed there are the ones who make this newspaper possible. If you enjoy reading the paper and you run into any of them around the Nonahood, please let them know that they are doing a great job. I often meet people who give me encouraging words about what we’re doing. I’m very proud of Nonahood News, but I’m even more proud of our amazing team. They truly care about their work, and every single person listed is an asset to Nonahood News and to our community. People often ask me what our differentiator is, and I always say that it is our team.
