Moving to Lake Mary: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Lake Mary is one of the few Orlando-area suburbs where you can plausibly move for the local job market itself, not just for a shorter commute into downtown Orlando. Relocating here usually means buying into the Colonial TownPark/Heathrow corporate corridor as much as into a residential suburb.
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The Colonial TownPark and Colonial Center Heathrow office parks along International Parkway put a real concentration of regional and corporate offices inside city limits -- TownPark alone carries over 950,000 square feet of Class A office space, and Heathrow adds more than 2 million square feet more. Named employers with a presence in the corridor include AT&T, AIG, AAA's national headquarters operations, Fiserv, Motorola, Siemens, Symantec, JPMorgan Chase, and Blue Cross Blue Shield, per Orlando Style Magazine and area commercial-real-estate listings.
Getting around
Lake Mary sits directly on I-4 in Seminole County, giving quick highway access south toward downtown Orlando and north toward Sanford and I-4's split with the Central Florida GreeneWay. Like most of the Orlando metro outside a handful of walkable downtowns (Winter Park, Altamonte Springs), day-to-day life here is car-dependent -- budget for a vehicle-centric lifestyle rather than transit or walkability.
What to expect on arrival
Expect a competitive, above-metro-median housing market (see Housing) and a genuinely corporate-suburb feel: master-planned subdivisions and golf communities built up around the office corridor rather than a historic small-town core. Families relocating for a specific TownPark or Heathrow employer should factor the Seminole County property-tax and insurance figures below into the total cost of the move, not just the sale price.
Key takeaways
- Lake Mary has an unusually independent, non-tourism corporate job base for an Orlando satellite -- named employers include AT&T, AIG, AAA, Fiserv, Motorola, Siemens, Symantec, Chase, and Blue Cross Blue Shield in the TownPark/Heathrow corridor.
- The city sits directly on I-4, but is car-dependent day to day like most of the Orlando metro outside Winter Park and Altamonte Springs.
- Relocating here is largely a corporate-suburb move: expect a premium housing market tied to the office corridor, not a bargain relocation.
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