{"id":310,"date":"2014-08-20T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2014-08-20T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:48:11","slug":"abdul-mathins-vegas-style-multimillion-dollar-complex-is-set-to-come-to-orlandos-i-drive-by-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/abdul-mathins-vegas-style-multimillion-dollar-complex-is-set-to-come-to-orlandos-i-drive-by-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathin\u2019s Vegas-style multimillion-dollar complex is set to come to Orlando&#8217;s I-Drive by summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/4mega-mall-I-Drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/4mega-mall-I-Drive.jpg\" alt=\"4mega mall I Drive\" width=\"237\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>After the iSquare Mall + Hotel project has been approved by the Orlando City Council on August 11, Abdul Mathin, chairman and CEO of The Blackmine Group unveiled more details on the new development. Mathin said after his company bought the site, he had a vision for the project in 2007. However, <!--more-->he couldn\u2019t start it because of the down economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The $300 million-$400 million mixed-use development\u00a0will be built on the corner of I-Drive and Kirkman Road and will feature nearly 500,000 square feet of upscale, a helipad atop the 27-story, 360-foot-tall complex and international retailers including some of the top brands in the world, a 729-room \u201c7-star\u201d hotel along with fancy amenities like a rooftop observation deck with rotating restaurant, 500-seat live performance theater, a 100,000-square-foot convention center and an indoor ice skating rink.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Construction works will likely start next year. <a title=\"Transportation from Orlando International Airport\" href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/en\/rates.php\" target=\"_blank\">The megamall-and-hotel complex<\/a> is set to open in summer 2017 and is expected to create 2,000 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the iSquare Mall + Hotel project has been approved by the Orlando City Council on August 11, Abdul Mathin, chairman and CEO of The Blackmine Group unveiled more details on the new development. Mathin said after his company bought the site, he had a vision for the project in 2007. However,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}