The Valley Bank at Dr. Phillips Boulevard and West Sand Lake Road has stood on its corner since 1984. Unicorp National Developments bought the land in 2002 for $2 million and has spent the years since planning what replaces the bank. Meanwhile, restaurant rooms within a few minutes of that intersection have closed, reopened, and changed operators. The stretch feels like it is being rebuilt. The dates show a new opening, a reopening, and one soft opening; the one ground-up project is still a county filing.
Here is the sequence in order.
| When | Address | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Early September 2024 | 7760 W. Sand Lake Rd | Sixty Vines opens in the former Roy's space at Plaza Venezia |
| August 2025 | 7533 W. Sand Lake Rd | Vines Grille & Wine Bar closes for a full renovation |
| February 2026 | 7533 W. Sand Lake Rd | The room reopens as Vines by H |
| March 2026 | 7625 W. Sand Lake Rd | Revised Pinnacle plans filed with Orange County |
| April 15, 2026 | 8910 Turkey Lake Rd | The Dough Show begins its soft opening |
Two old rooms with new owners
Sixty Vines has been serving in the former Roy's space for just over two years. Its CEO, Jeff Carcara, first looked at the Plaza Venezia site in 2020, when Roy's had already closed. He told the Orlando Business Journal that the old building ignored Little Sand Lake behind it and felt chopped up. His fix was more square footage and a glass-backed room facing the water. The restaurant that opened in September 2024 has more than 11,000 square feet, compared with 7,097 at its Winter Park location, plus a greenhouse dining room and a private room overlooking the lake. That is roughly four years from first site visit to first table. Regency Centers, which owns Plaza Venezia, describes the plaza as 202,722 square feet anchored by Publix, with Rocco's Tacos, Eddie V's, First Watch and Foxtail Coffee Co. among its tenants.
Vines by H followed the same pattern on a shorter clock. Vines opened in 2003 and moved to The H Hospitality Group in June 2025. It closed in August 2025 and reopened by early February 2026, so the room sat dark for roughly six months. The 7,800-square-foot interior now seats 160 guests, including 16 at the bar, with 50 more on the garden patio. It also has a cigar lounge, live jazz listed nightly, and two private rooms. The Cypress Room holds up to 46 and the Arnold Palmer Room up to 20. Executive Chef Omer Yildiz came over from The H Orlando, where he was executive sous chef. The opening announcement lists a daily happy hour with $10 classic cocktails and scratch-made pastas on a modern American menu with Mediterranean and European touches. Hours can shift, so check vinesbyh.com before heading over.
The two timelines are different: Sixty Vines opened in September 2024, while Vines by H reopened in February 2026. Neither is a summer 2026 story.
A soft opening on Turkey Lake Road
The Dough Show is the newest arrival in the sequence. It began a soft opening on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at 8910 Turkey Lake Road, according to the West Orange Times & Observer. The restaurant is Egyptian in origin and known for feteer, the flaky layered pies that can be savory or sweet, along with shawarma and mixed-grill platters. The company says its dough is stretched by hand and its food is 100 percent halal. The Dr. Phillips location has indoor and outdoor seating and a dedicated kids' play area, which its owners emphasized in their announcement.
The Dough Show is a small chain with locations in Kissimmee, Tampa, Jacksonville, near UCF, and in Winter Springs. Its Turkey Lake Road location began its soft opening about five and a half months ago.
The corner that has not changed
The Pinnacle is the project people mean when they say the Row is about to look different. It is also the one where the numbers have moved the most, and where older figures still circulate.
In 2023, Unicorp's filing described a three-story mixed-use building of about 29,750 square feet with an attached parking garage, at an estimated cost of around $30 million. After a community meeting in fall 2023, Unicorp president Chuck Whittall said a level of structured parking would come out to lower the height. Some recent write-ups still carry that $30 million to $40 million figure.
The revised plans, filed with Orange County in March 2026 and reported by GrowthSpotter, describe something larger:
- Four stories, with an internal four-level parking garage
- About 48,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, up from about 29,750
- A maximum height of 70 feet at the peak of the elevator tower that reaches the rooftop parking level
- Up to seven retail and restaurant spaces, mostly on the first floor and none above the second
- A cost of almost $90 million, about triple the 2023 figure
Whittall told GrowthSpotter the goal is two to four restaurants, possibly one at each corner of the ground floor. He would not name them, describing them as concepts from "elsewhere in the country and elsewhere in the state." In 2023 he said he wanted non-chain restaurants of the kind found in New York and Miami. The design has also changed. Neighbors had objected in 2023 to the building's height, which had been discussed at up to six stories, and to a look they found too modern. Whittall said the revision lowered the height and moved the design toward a Mediterranean feel.
The March filing also asks for eight waivers from county rules covering open space, building height, buffers and setbacks. Whittall said the waivers match what is written into Orange County's new code, which is being challenged in court. The county joined Windermere and more than two dozen other governments in a lawsuit over Senate Bill 180, the state law that restricts local land-use authority. A Leon County circuit judge dismissed four of the five counts in late February 2026, and the case remains pending. Whittall described the waivers as a way for the project to move without waiting on that lawsuit.
Reporting available as of late September 2026 does not show an approval, a demolition date, or a construction start. An April 2026 report had the Valley Bank branch still operating and the project still working through county planning and permitting reviews. A filing is a request, and the county's answer to those eight waivers is the next fact that would change what happens at the corner.
What would actually show up first
The bank building at the corner is 42 years old, and the plan requires demolishing it. Until the county rules on the waivers, the changes anyone can eat at are the ones already open: the greenhouse room at Sixty Vines, the jazz and cigar lounge at Vines by H, and the feteer on Turkey Lake Road. Orange County's public records and GrowthSpotter's Central Florida development coverage are the places to look for the county's answer on the Pinnacle's eight waivers.
If you own near Sand Lake Road and want a plain-language read on how a filing like this affects the paperwork you would actually sign, Franc Marrero at Freedom Property Agent is glad to walk through it. Schedule a Consultation.
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