ORLANDO, Fla. -- On May 27, at 10 a.m., the Orlando VA Medical Center will host a press event to unveil a 3-D model of the new Lake Nona Campus. Also during the event, and just in time for Memorial Day, the Central Florida Veterans Memorial Park Foundation, Inc., will unveil its plans for a Veterans Memorial Park to be built at the Lake Nona site. The event will be at held at Orlando City Hall, 400 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801-3360. Distinguished guest speakers at the event will include Orlando VA Medical Center Director Timothy W. Liezert, Central Florida Memorial Park Foundation President Jerry Pierce, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Crotty’s Chief of Staff and Director of Economic Trade and Tourism Development Mr. George Rodon.

The new Orlando VA Medical Center will be located on a 65-acre campus in southeast Orange County. The 1.2 million square foot facility, opening in fall of 2012, will cost $665 million to construct. The medical center will have a large multispecialty outpatient clinic, 134-inpatient beds, 120-community living center beds, a 60-bed domiciliary and administrative and support services. The VA will be co-located with the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, the Sanford-Burnham Institute, the University of Florida Academic and Research Center and Nemours Children’s Hospital in the Lake Nona area known as the “Medical City.”

The Veterans Memorial Park at Lake Nona will be located adjacent to the new medical center across from the south entrance at a beautiful location facing a lake. The memorial will honor approximately 1,100 Veterans from Orange, Lake, Brevard, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties who served in in the uniform of our country and made the ultimate sacrifice and never returned.

To learn more about the Orlando VA Medical Center, go to: www.orlando.va.gov. To see the progress of the new Lake Nona campus, go to: http://www.orlando.va.gov/newmedcenter/orlmedcenternew.asp.

To learn more about the Central Florida Veterans Memorial Park Foundation, Inc., go to: www.CFVMPF.org.

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