LAKELAND | A new plan, new leadership and a new sense of camaraderie has brought new optimism about downtown, district leaders claim, but can declarative sentences about the city’s central business district be written by an alphabet soup of organizations?
Yes, Julie Townsend said, grimacing at the phrase that she admits she might have first used in describing downtown’s divided organizat-ions.
For almost 10 months she’s been the director of the Lakeland Downtown Development Authority, one of several public and private organizations that have at times planted flags on the district’s future