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ORLANDO, Fla. — Editor’s note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership between WFTV and the Orlando Business Journal.
Universal Orlando’s two new resorts under construction that will open in early 2025 — and their 1,500 rooms — are but a drop in the bucket to satisfy next year’s hotel demand, said Michael Weinberg, a managing director in the Orlando office of commercial real estate firm Berkadia.
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That’s all because of the anticipated 2025 debut of the Epic Universe theme park, he told Orlando Business Journal.
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“If you add this big demand driver in the market and then you look back at previous big demand generators — like when they added [Wizarding World of] Harry Potter in 2010 — the spike was around 10%-15%,” Weinberg said. “This is like adding four or five Harry Potters.
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