July 1, 2026: Central Florida (I-4 Corridor and Space Coast) new business activity

Central Florida's eight counties recorded 2,307 new business filings the week of June 10 to 16, up 10% from the week before.

Property and professional companies did the most this week. Property holding and asset protection firms led with 359 new filings, up 69 from the week before. Professional services came next with 336, up 62. Both are the kinds of business that need accountants, insurance, legal help, and IT from day one.

Health care had the sharpest jump. New health care and social help businesses rose to 144, up 43 from a week earlier, a 43% gain. Hospitality and tourism firms added 26 to reach 152, and retail rose 16 to 130. Wholesale and distribution ran hotter than its normal pace at 49.

Orange County stayed the center of activity with 939 new businesses, up 91. The faster growth was at the edges. Osceola added 58 to reach 239, up 32%, and Brevard on the Space Coast added 49 to reach 233, up 27%. Kissimmee climbed to 212, up 54, and Melbourne reached 75, up 27.

This week rose, but the longer trend is easing a little. The recent pace has settled near 2,400 a week, so this was a strong week inside a quarter that is gently flattening. Almost every new business is an LLC, 2,069 of them, about 90% of the total. Nonprofit formations rose to 62, up 17.

Very little growth over the past 13 weeks.

The bold line is the 13-week average. Read it for the longer trend. The thin line is each week's count, which swings week to week.

Property Holding & Asset Protection grew the most this week, 69 more (up 23.8%). Real Estate dropped the most, 5 fewer (down 4.8%). Several smaller sectors also grew.

Orange led the region this week with 939 new filings. Gains were broad, with 5 other counties also up from the week before.

• Louisiana based Acadian Contractors opened a new 45,000 square foot East Coast headquarters in Cocoa on Florida's Space Coast, a jump from its earlier 11,000 square foot space. The construction contractor serves aerospace and marine work, from pre-launch ground systems to marine recovery of rocket hardware. The move is expected to bring more than 100 jobs. A larger contractor headquarters adds more than 100 skilled trade and construction jobs and more capacity to build and service launch ground systems and marine recovery work. It lines up with the region's steady construction filings, 176 this week, and with Brevard's fast growth on the Space Coast, up 27%. EDC of Florida's Space Coast, 2026-05-13
• Marco's Pizza is opening a new operations and training center in downtown Orlando at 222 South Orange Avenue. The company is investing more than $1 million in the roughly 14,030 square foot center, which will hold about 50 corporate staff and a full training kitchen. Construction is underway and the center is expected to open in the fall. A new corporate and training center means work for commercial interior contractors and commercial kitchen installers, then about 50 office and training jobs downtown. It also feeds ongoing demand for the food supply, cleaning, and professional services a corporate hub uses. Orlando Economic Partnership, 2026-06-16
• The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is moving its Orlando toxicology laboratory to the University of Central Florida's Academic Health Sciences Campus in Lake Nona. The lab handles about 10,000 cases a year. The move places the state crime lab next to UCF's medical and research buildings in the Lake Nona medical cluster. Fitting out a working laboratory brings specialized construction and lab equipment work, and adds trained staff to the Lake Nona medical and research cluster in southeast Orange County. That growing cluster is a customer base for the professional, staffing, and support service firms forming across the county. University of Central Florida, 2026-06-29

If you sell to new businesses in Central Florida, this week points to two clear openings. The biggest pool of new prospects is property and professional firms, and health care is the fastest growing group, up 43%, so accountants, insurance agents, IT providers, and staffing firms have more new customers to reach right now. On the Space Coast, a contractor is expanding by more than 100 jobs, so construction, industrial suppliers, freight, and the trades have real projects to chase there. Providers who usually stay in Orange should look east to Osceola and Brevard, where new business growth is running fastest.

The counts come from new Florida business filings recorded for the eight Central Florida counties for the week of June 10 to 16, 2026. We wait about two weeks after a week ends for the state to finish recording all of its filings, so the counts here are complete and final, not early estimates. Industry groups use plain names for readability, and every figure is drawn from the official filing record.