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High-rise lakeside hotel in works near Disney

MB Resort New plans filed with Orange County detail MB Resort, a project planned just east of Walt Disney World. (OBJ)

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A new luxury hotel project is in the works just east of Walt Disney World Resort, according to plans filed Aug. 14 in Orange County.

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The project, titled MB Resort in renderings and other plans submitted, features a 19-story, 199-room hotel tower rising 200 feet into the air. A floor plan reveals a mix of room sizes and amenities, including a spa, gym, coworking space, an arcade, restaurant, bar, rooftop facilities and a pool area.

As planned, it would be built on a little over four acres at 13651 S. Apopka Vineland Road, on the shore of Lake Bryan in unincorporated Orange County. The site is a mile or so east of Disney Springs.

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