Orlando Business Development Center Welcomes Clients to New and Improved Space at Colonial Drive Facility

ORLANDO – Clients at the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program’s Orlando Business Development Center are busy getting settled into the newly renovated offices at 3218 E. Colonial Drive, which debuted recently.

The OBDC, a partnership between the City of Orlando and the UCF Business Incubation Program, opened nearly two years ago in the 2,400 square foot office across from Fashion Square mall with plans to eventually take over a neighboring office of nearly 4,000 additional square feet.

The move – Phase II of the original plan for the busy center – is a much anticipated one for existing clients, new clients and those moving from other incubator locations, as well as for Melissa Wasserman,  (top right photo) the OBDC site manager.

“It’s something that has been in the planning stages since the inception of the center,” said Wasserman, who recently was named site manager for the center after serving as interim manager for the past six months. “We are very excited to be transitioning into the larger space which will allow us to serve more clients.”

The center’s current residents – Social Security Advocates, OC Grant Consulting Associates, SeaQuarius and Therigy – have been joined by Perceptive Technologies, VideoProof, MyDocHub, Excelsior Communications, MTK Sports Training LLC and Learn to Learn.

OBDC is one of six such facilities in the university’s Business Incubation Program. Others are in Seminole and Lake counties, and throughout Orange County.

The Incubation Program serves approximately 70 full-time client companies and provides a wide range of services, including affordable office space, as well as access to a receptionist, a site manager, business mentors, educational classes and necessary business equipment like multi-line phones, FAX and high-speed Internet. The center also has one virtual client, who may utilize all of the services with the exception of actual office space.

For more information about this release, please contact:

Melissa Wasserman, Site Manager/OBDC, UCF Business Incubation Program, 321-281-8384 or mwasserm@mail.ucf.edu

Thomas O’Neal, (bottom left photo) Executive Director, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407 882-1120, oneal@mail.ucf.edu

Charlene Hager-Van Dyke or Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications, 386-532-8862, 407-644-4142 Lvershelco@aol.com  or chagervandyke@yahoo.com