New-vehicle inventory levels retreated slightly in January from December, falling to 2.55 million from 2.7 million, according to data from Cox Automotive. Levels are still up about 47 percent from a year earlier, however.
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The four crew of the Axiom Space Ax-3 mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center last month made a safe return to Earth with a splashdown off the coast of Daytona Beach on Friday but not before sending a sonic boom across Central Florida.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom that departed from the International Space Station on Wednesday morning landed at 8:30 a.m. off the Florida coast after a 47-hour trip home carrying the Ax-3 crew of Axiom chief astronaut and mission commander Michael López-Alegría along with Italian Air Force Col. Walter Villadei, Alper Gezeravcı of Turkey and European Space Agency project astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden. The Dragon also brought back 550 pounds of science research and cargo from the ISS.
Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, @CommanderMLA, @WalterVilladei, @TURKastro, and @astro_marcus pic.twitter.com/9fF0hIT3gK
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 9, 2024
The path brought Dragon across Florida with a window-rattling sonic boom before its two drogue parachutes slowed the spacecraft down, followed by the successful deployment of its four main parachutes for an on-time landing amid calm seas.
When he first saw the 77 acres of vacant land in the heart of Orlando’s International Drive corridor, Brock Nicholas knew he had found a unicorn.
As president of Lennar’s Orlando Division, Nicholas had built and sold thousands of vacation homes in Osceola County, but he had never found a location suitable for a resort community so close to the Orange County Convention Center and Universal theme parks.
Everyone from Lennar, to Pulte to Park Square Homes, to Encore Homes, was building resort communities in Kissimmee or the Four Corners area.
“So everything you build out there has to be better than the last thing that got built, and so there’s a little bit of an arms race in the way those communities get developed,” he told GrowthSpotter. “So it just gets more and more expensive.”
Nicholas wanted to find a site that could be developed as a residential-style resort community in a commercial hub to serve groups and family travelers.
The property, at 5120 Del Verde Way just south of Dezerland Park, checked all the boxes. The city of Orlando approved the zoning to allow 70 of the same large-scale vacation homes being built at ChampionsGate, along with 200 attached four- and five-bedroom townhouse-style units and 256 apartment-style units with two and three bedrooms. A massive amenity lies in the middle that’s walkable from every unit.
Mazda expects the momentum to grow with the introduction of more hybrid options in the CX-50 and CX-70 crossovers.