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◆ Project Profi le
The Paramount on Lake Eola,
Orlando, Fla.
Contractor: J.C. Gibson Plastering Co. Inc., Orlando, Fla.
The Paramount on Lake Eola, as seen from Central Avenue in Orlando.
by Robert Spiegel
With a plaster pump and 23
workers, Orlando-based J.C.
Gibson Plastering Co. Inc.
used portland cement to plaster Th e
Paramount on Lake Eola, a 300,000square-foot
luxury condo building in
downtown Orlando’s Lake Eola area.
Th e company started the project in June
2007 and completed the project nine
months later.
Th e building features luxury
residences with eight pool-deck villas.
Th e complex contains 45,000 square
feet of ground-fl oor retail space that is
anchored by a Publix supermarket, as
well as 10,000 square feet of offi ce space.
Amenities include a fi ve-story parking
garage, a 1,500-square-foot athletic
club, a 2,500-square-foot indoor/
outdoor club room, a 15,000-square-foot
resort-style pool deck, and a whirlpool
spa.
Th is project would not have been
a lath and plaster project in the past,
notes company owner John Gibson.
“Years ago, this project would have been
an EIFS (synthetic stucco) project,” he
says. Th e EIFS market once dominated
the plastering industry in certain areas
of the country, including Orlando,
he notes.
Most of the plastering for the
Photos courtesy of J.C. Gibson Plastering Co. Inc.