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PI World.com, April 24, 2012
LAKELAND, FL—April 24, 2012—xpedx, a premier business-to-business distribution company, is already realizing significant customer benefits from its new 200,000-sq.ft. mega-distribution center located here. The company recently began servicing customers in Tampa, Orlando and all of northern, central....
The Ledger, April 02, 2012
LAKELAND | A new, $34.7 million road providing access to the site of the planned polytechnic university has opened after two years of construction.
PMPNews, January 18, 2012
SteriPack, an international company converting medical packaging materials and providing contract manufacturing, contract engineering, and ISO 17025 accredited testing services, has purchased a facility for its first U.S. based operations. The 40,000-sq-ft building sits on five acres in Lakeland, FL, near two international airports and major ports, reports Tony Paolino, president, SteriPack USA. The location positions SteriPack to serve both U.S.-based manufacturers looking to export as well as international firms seeking to serve the U.S. market, Paolino states.
The Ledger, November 08, 2011
LAKELAND | So who is the national food manufacturer with plans for a big Lakeland expansion in 2012? Irving, Texas-based Mission Foods, according to a local source with knowledge of the deal. Mission Foods, which touts itself as one of the world's largest producers of tortilla products, plans to expand to Lakeland next year and will hire more than 130 people during a period of roughly three years.
LAKELAND | Publix Super Markets Inc. is bringing its Apron's Cooking School concept to Lakeland. Publix plans to open the cooking school at its Lake Miriam Square store sometime in the first half of 2012, said Clayton Hollis, Publix's vice president of public affairs. Hollis spoke at the Lakeland Economic Development Council's annual breakfast meeting Tuesday, where a number of companies made announcements about their projects in Lakeland.
LAKELAND | A New Jersey company plans to build a massive, $40 million gas plant in eastern Lakeland that would be the second biggest user of electricity in the city. The plant, called an air separation facility, would be on 15 acres off North Combee Road near Saddle Creek Road and the Wilson Acres subdivision that the company is buying from the city for $750,000. The company's annual electric bill would be between $3.5 million and $4.5 million.
NYT Regional Media Group, April 26, 2011
Workforce Education officials are in talks with different entities like Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Southwest
Florida Water Management District to develop new career academies.
John Small, the district's senior director for Workforce Education, said he would like to create an Environmental Science Academy in the northeast section of the county and, in the near future, an academy that focuses on renewable energy.
The Ledger, April 18, 2011
LAKELAND | A Chicago-based food testing firm has expanded to Lakeland. Silliker, which operates an international network of food testing and consulting laboratories, recently opened a small lab here at 2525 Drane Field Road. "With Tampa and Orlando, Lakeland forms an impressive triad of cities along Interstate 4 in Central Florida," said Johannes Burlin, president of Silliker North America, in a prepared statement. "Lakeland resides in one of the state's most robust
CoStar Group, March 16, 2011
Phoenix Industries leased 20,000 square feet at Building 300 of the
Interstate Commerce Park at 4100 South Frontage Road in Lakeland.
Occupancy is scheduled for April of this year. Building 300 of the Interstate Commerce Park is a single-story, 152,880-square-foot industrial building constructed in 2008 in the Tampa/Saint Petersburg submarket. Phoenix Industries is a warehouse and distributer of frozen, chilled, and dry foods...
The Ledger, March 01, 2011
LAKELAND | An insurance services firm is expanding to Lakeland and could create up to 50 new jobs here. National Flood Services, a Montana-based flood insurance processor, is moving into offices at the Heritage Business Center on Commerce Point Drive. Company officials say they plan to hire 30 to 50 employees for the expansion and will hold an open house today and Wednesday for interested job hunters.
WFLA Channel 8, November 10, 2010
By JENNIFER LEIGH | News Channel 8
The city wants to attract the best and brightest workers. What community doesn't? In Lakeland though, city commissioners are offering breaks on impact fees to new and expanding businesses that bring high skill, high wage jobs to the city to make that happen.
http://video.tbo.com/m/35186420/impact-fee-reduction.htm?q=lakeland
The Ledger, November 02, 2010
LAKELAND | The city of Lakeland wants to give businesses a break on impact fees to attract new growth and jobs to the area. The Economic Development Impact Fee Mitigation program will cut non-utility impact fees for businesses that build a new facility and pay workers at least $19.18 an hour or an average annual salary of $39,898 - amounting to 115 percent of the average local wage.
Qualifying companies must create between 10 and 50 new jobs...
The Ledger, October 30, 2010
LAKELAND | Lakeland Regional Medical Center President Elaine Thompson was due at a luncheon with the hospital foundation's senior advisory council Oct. 18 after having her picture taken. En route, she stopped and stuck her head inside a small office in which an employee was collecting patient records. "Hi. I'm Elaine,"
she said. "I'm your president."
The Ledger, August 11, 2010
A company that manufactures automated poultry equipment will occupy an industrial warehouse at 2655 Old Tampa Highway
in Lakeland, according to Steinbauer Associates, the Lakeland company that handled the deal. The 72,000-square-foot office and warehouse space sits on 12 acres and sold for $3 million to DBM...
LAKELAND | Doughnuts and distribution centers are among the new projects in Lakeland business this year. The Lakeland Economic Development Council touted a variety of new businesses...
The Ledger, April 20, 2010
It isn't only athletes or students that use coaching. So do business executives, entrepreneurs, even CEOs. In Lakeland, Dick Pellegrini is their Vince Lombardi or Bear Bryant. In the winter of 1997, as a refugee from the cold, gray North, Pellegrini came to Lakeland to found Pilgrim associates, a senior executive business consulting and coaching firm. It's still going strong and operates on the premise of strength in numbers - two heads are better than one, three better yet, etc...
The Maddux Report, April 01, 2010
Downtown Lakeland is home to what may be the state’s coolest, newest business technology incubator. It’s called Blue Sky West, part of the new University of South Florida Polytechnic, and it includes a bright red playground slide, a lime green and orange color scheme, two old-fashioned phone booths and a dune buggy. Not your typical office space.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, March 25, 2010
Lakeland is the smallest city in the nation to make the federal government’s list of cities with the most energy-efficient buildings.
In the second annual ranking by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of metropolitan areas, Lakeland is seventh of the top 25 cities list released March 24. The city has 120 Energy Star rated buildings with 11.5 million square feet of space.
The Ledger, March 24, 2010
LAKELAND | Mayor Gow Fields won't dive into alligator-infested waters. The city won't use ice cream, glow sticks or temporarily name itself Googleland. But it's still trying to try to lure Google and its experimental super high-speed fiber optic network. If it's all the same, leaders of the Connect Lakeland effort said Wednesday at the Greater Lakeland Chamber of Commerce, cities will be judged on what they have to offer and their degree of community support...
The Ledger, February 15, 2010
LAKELAND | The old, vacant and originally beautiful
Federal Building in downtown Lakeland appears headed for a return to its past glory, 1919 style. But not circa 1931. MidFlorida Federal Credit Union will spend at least $800,000 to renovate the building.
The Ledger, January 22, 2010
A front-loading tractor was positioned Thursday morning outside the Magnolia Mansion at Cypress Gardens. It wasn't there to move
any dirt. Instead, a driver tilted down the scoop and dumped 100,000 Lego bricks onto a stage. That was a mere down payment, with 39.9 million more to follow when Legoland Florida opens by the end of next year.
The Ledger, December 25, 2009
LAKELAND | The new University of South Florida Polytechnic campus will be served by a new four-lane entrance road, thanks to federal stimulus money and state transportation funds. Florida Department of Transportation officials awarded a $34.8 million contract to design and build the road to Jacobs Engineering and APAC Southeast on Wednesday. Design of the road will begin immediately and construction will begin by spring, said DOT spokeswoman Cindy Clemmons.
The Ledger, December 01, 2009
LAKELAND | The Lakeland Economic Development Council accomplished a rare feat Monday: Pulling off a project without Mayor Buddy Fletcher knowing about it. The LEDC surprised the outgoing mayor with an award presentation during its monthly meeting at the Polk Theatre. LEDC Chairman Scott Franklin handed Fletcher a model locomotive symbolizing the mayor's role as the force propelling the city's economic engine during his four terms in office.
The Ledger, November 04, 2009
LAKELAND | The living vitality of the land entranced Santiago Calatrava as he first walked the heavily wooded site where the University of South Florida Polytechnic will have its home. Not just the bulls grazing there, although the architect-engineer has an affinity for bulls, but also the rich vegetation of trees, multiple plants and Spanish moss. Throughout Lakeland, he said, he saw the plethora of lakes that make the city's name richly deserved...
The Ledger, October 27, 2009
Energy Department to give $20 million to help power company develop a smart energy grid with benefits for customers
LAKELAND | Within a few years, no Lakeland Electric meter readers will be bitten by dogs, a flubbed 40-day billing cycle will be virtually impossible and people will be more capable of trimming their electric bills.
USF Web site, June 24, 2009
Goodman, VP and CEO of the University of South Florida Polytechnic, announced today that USFP's business incubation facilities will be named Blue Sky. Earlier this year the Central Florida Development Council invested $700,000 toward the construction of an incubation facility on the new I-4 campus, expected to open in 2012. In the meantime, however, the community will be served by at least two incubation facilities: one in Lakeland...
The Ledger, June 17, 2009
LAKELAND | Callahan Fore was barely old enough to drive when he became an entrepreneur three years ago. Then a 16-year-old junior at All Saints' Academy in Winter Haven, Fore spearheaded the development of SweatMonkey.org, a non-profit Internet operation that connects youths with local volunteer jobs. The idea wasn't hard to come by. Like many other high school students, Fore struggled to find volunteer work needed for a graduation requirement...
LAKELAND | The University of South Florida Polytechnic has yet to break ground, but it helped reel in one of the biggest additions to Lakeland business in recent years. So says Damien Lamendola, chief executive of Colorado-based WellDyne RX, which expanded to Lakeland this year and intends to employ nearly 700 workers by the end of 2010.
The Ledger, April 24, 2009
LAKELAND | Finding good news in this economy can be a challenge. Polk County is dealing with rising unemployment and imperiled housing markets, but local business isn't ready to throw in the towel.
Friday's Business section focused on projects on the east side of the county. Today, we focus on the Lakeland area. WELLDYNE RX
WellDyne RX, a Colorado-based pharmacy services firm...
The Ledger, March 03, 2009
LAKELAND | WellDyne RX is making its official Lakeland debut this week and has plans to hire 100 employees during the course of the year. The Colorado-based pharmacy services firm recently moved into a 66,000-square-foot facility near the intersection of County Line and Swindell roads...
Maddux Report, March 01, 2009
Consistency may be dull to some, but so far it’s plowing Polk County right through these rocky times. At a time when many markets have seen their business expansion and recruitment efforts hit a wall, Polk County stood tall in 2008. And its largest city, Lakeland, led the way. Consider: They city's new or expanding companies include WellDyneRx, Firmenich, Pepperidge Farm, Saddle Creek and GTECH Printing.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, October 28, 2008
A new instant-ticket printing facility is expected to open next spring by GTech Printing Corp. that could have as many as 200 employees by 2013. The 100,000-square-foot facility, when opened next year, will employ 100 people initially to produce approximately 11 billion instant tickets annually, and is not expected to replace the current Plant City location, which will be used as redundant operations...
The Ledger, October 27, 2008
LAKELAND | Lakeland's next export: billions of lottery tickets.
GTech Printing Corp., an international producer of scratch-off lottery tickets, is expanding to Lakeland and will employ more than 200 people locally over the next few years, the company announced Monday. Officials plan to spend more than $45 million establishing a high-tech printing facility...
The Ledger, October 09, 2008
LAKELAND | Home construction is still dragging but industrial developers apparently haven't slowed their pace. Local and national developers recently previewed millions of square feet worth of industrial projects at a Lakeland Economic Development Council meeting, giving a glimpse of what's to come in 2009 and beyond....
Tampa Bay Business Journal, September 19, 2008
TAMPA — Bay area residents who pass through Polk County on Interstate 4 may have the impression of a tranquil, largely rural part of the state. For those with an eye on the industrial real estate market, the region is anything but sedate. The communities of Polk County are increasingly sought-after locations for warehouse and distribution facilities...
The Ledger, September 03, 2008
LAKELAND | Colorado-based WellDyneRX has established a Lakeland office in advance of a $20 million expansion here, but local hiring won't ramp up until next year. Susan Cain, Welldyne's chief operating officer, said the company has already hired 10 employees and plans to add about 25 more by the end of the year. The immediate vacancies include call center representatives, pharmacy and IT staff, and administrative personnel...
IndyStar.com, September 03, 2008
Long content to operate just in Indiana, Browning Investments will expand out of state. The Carmel developer has bought about 100 acres near Lakeland, Fla., for an industrial park it will start building next spring. The expansion is an effort by Browning to diversify its developments geographically so it is less affected by regional economic downturns, said Executive Vice President Dennis Dye. Browning also wants to buy land to build distribution centers in Louisville, Ky...
Tampa Bay Business Journal, August 25, 2008
WellDyneRx Inc. will create more than 670 jobs when it opens a new facility in Lakeland, more than tripling the Colorado company’s prescription mail order capacity. WellDyneRx said Monday it is building a $20 million southeastern operations center that will be able to fill more than 30 million mail order prescriptions annually, the Lakeland Economic Development Council said...
The Ledger, August 25, 2008
WellDyneRX, a mail-order pharmacy and benefit management firm, has selected Lakeland for an expansion that could bring 670 new jobs. The $20 million expansion is the first for Centennial, Colo.-based WellDyne, which will do the bulk of its hiring in 2009 and 2010, with salaries averaging roughly $42,000. The private company is leasing a 66,000-square-foot facility off Swindell Road, near County Line Road, that will serve WellDyne clients nationwide...
Tampa Bay Business Journal, August 07, 2008
The land that once held the USA International Speedway is now under new ownership.Rockefeller Group Development Corp. acquired 113 acres of the land off Interstate 4’s exit 38 in Lakeland, and the Manhattan company hopes it will attract a commercial tenant. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.“Central Florida is quickly becoming a prime distribution center for the state, replacing traditional...
The Ledger, July 10, 2008
A project that has been planned for years is on the verge of being built. The 724-acre development will be predominately warehouses and distribution facilities, but also could include offices, stores, a hotel and some homes. Lakeland Central Park will be north and east of the Polk Parkway, south of Old Tampa Highway and west of Airport Road...
Tampa Bay Business Journal, May 15, 2008
square-foot distribution center in Lakeland at the Interstate Commerce Park. The company's expansion was announced Thursday at the annual meeting of the Lakeland Economic Development Council...
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