Plans announced for new Poinciana Post Office

November 20, 2007

Architect's rendering of the new Post Office planned for Poinciana. The 7,270 sq. ft. facility is planned to be built on a 1.9-acre site behind the Promenade Shopping Center in Poinciana Towne Center. (Avatar Properties Inc.)

That loud cheer emanating from Poinciana is from the 67,000 residents who learned that a new Post Office is finally coming to this master-planned community that occupies 47,000 acres in northwest Osceola and northeast Polk counties.

The United States Postal Service is negotiating to purchase a 1.9-acre site from Poinciana developer Avatar Properties Inc. on which it plans to build a free-standing, 7,270 sq. ft. Mediterranean-style facility with tile roof, earth tone color scheme, and columns with stacked stone bases.

“The new Post Office is indicative of the exciting growth that’s taking place to meet the everyday needs of Poinciana’s residents,” said Tony Iorio, vice president of land development for Avatar. “This is a huge plus for our residents and a milestone in the growth and maturation of the community.”

The new Post Office site is on San Remo Road in Poinciana Towne Center behind the Publix Supermarket in the Promenade Shopping Center which sits on the corner of Cypress Parkway and Doverplum Road.

The plat is currently being reviewed by Osceola County which is expected to rule this December. Once it receives the county’s stamp of approval, the United States Postal Service will close on the land and commence development in the spring of 2008. Site and development and construction are expected to take a minimum of seven months, and if construction goes as scheduled the new Post Office is likely to open in the autumn of 2008.

“A lot of hard work and man-hours put in by persons in the public and private sectors made this happen,” said Iorio.

The new Post Office will join a growing list of retailers in Poinciana Towne Center, the community’s retail hub featuring several restaurants and over 80 businesses including a WalMart SuperCenter, a Winn-Dixie Marketplace, and the Promenade Shopping Center. They will soon be joined by the Cypress Plaza Shopping Center, one of four shopping centers currently under development in Poinciana. Others are Solivita Marketplace, Poinciana Gateway Plaza, and The Pointe which is anchored by the new Lowe’s home improvement retail store now nearing completion.  Development of a fifth shopping center, the Village Shops at Bellalago, is expected to begin in December.

Poinciana is being developed by Avatar, the community’s primary homebuilder.  Avatar also is developing Poinciana Office & Industrial Park where national and international tenants currently have nearly four million square feet under roof and over 2,200 employees, many residents of Poinciana.

For more information about the Poinciana Post Office, contact Joseph Breckenridge, Communications-Central Florida District, by calling (770) 998-1068 or (404) 307-1768, or by e-mailing .

For more information about available retail and commercial opportunities in Poinciana, contact Hank Yunes, Avatar’s vice president of commercial operations, at (305) 442-7000, or Tony Iorio, Avatar’s vice president of land development, at (407) 933-5000.