Incentives…Our Track Record
By: Steve Scruggs January 4, 2018 We believe the City of Lakeland should increase its investment in creating high-skill, high-wage jobs in our community in 2018. Intuitively, high-skill, high-wage jobs can be defined as jobs that are highly skilled (engineering,...
Catapult Parking
Catapult was started in late 2013 as an 501c3 educational entrepreneur center in the basement of the Bank of America Building in downtown Lakeland. Due to its initial success and the obvious need to move beyond its initial experimental stage, local private donors...
Lakeland Electric
In 2011, Tampa Electric (TECO) executives asked the LEDC to set up a meeting with Lakeland’s city manager and mayor. TECO was interested in talking to city officials regarding the potential purchase of Lakeland Electric. A number of meetings between TECO and city...
Broadband With a Broad Brush
What does broadband have to do with economic development? Companies across the country are making relocation and expansion decisions based on a long list of criteria such as real estate, incentives, talent, etc. Is broadband on the list? If so, where, and how...