Midtown Lakeland redevelopment gets moving with substantial cash surplus
LAKELAND —The 4,500-acre area designated the Midtown Community Redevelopment District started the fiscal year with almost five years’ worth of revenues in surplus. It idles no longer as the agency launches several major projects and gets ready for more in 2017. The Midtown district includes roughly the area between George Jenkins Boulevard/Bartow Road and I-4.…