The Lakeland Economic Development Council has a plan and the city of Lakeland has its own plan for downtown Lakeland. By April, all the different master plans plotting the future of downtown Lakeland will be integrated and “visualized” on a web-based platform that allows users to see what downtown’s street grid would look like if all proposed and approved plans were implemented.
“The cool, sexy part” of the tool will allow anyone “to visualize future development on any site of downtown Lakeland,” LEDC Executive Director Steve Scruggs said as he demonstrated the 3D software program created by The Apiary, a Lakeland-based startup, during the two-day Lakeland City Commission strategic planning session at the RP Funding Center that concluded Thursday.