The Lakeland Community Redevelopment Agency is cobbling together small, mostly vacant lots in an effort to support investment interest in “a large-scale project” in the Parker Street neighborhood.
The agency’s advisory board last week agreed to pay $25,000 for two side-by-side undeveloped parcels collectively totaling one-quarter acre at 901 N. Tennessee Ave. and 210 Plum St. The purchase still needs approval of the Lakeland City Commission.
At the same meeting, the advisory board also agreed to a $151,318.70 grant for improvements, expansion and enhanced signage at The Yard on Mass, a project developed in partnership with the CRA. That, too, goes to the City Commission.