►Polk County Fire Rescue, in cooperation with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, completed department-wide active-shooter training for emergency response personnel; the division supplied active-shooter safety equipment, including ballistics helmets, vests and specialty medical bags to all of its engines, ladder trucks and ambulances.
►Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a commercial real estate investment services firm with offices throughout the United States and Canada, announced the sale of Melody Acres, a 36-unit manufactured homes community in Lakeland for $1 million.
►Starbucks and Bealls Outlet will open storefronts at the Southgate Shopping Center in Lakeland.
►After 50 years, vice chairman Barney Barnett retired from Publix Super Markets.
►Dean Saunders, founder and broker of Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate in Lakeland, received the Realtors Land Institute APEX Awards Program’s 2018 Top National Producer Award.
►Curry Mango, a full-scale restaurant serving Indian foods, is opening a 120-seat restaurant with outdoor patio seating for another 40 people, at 6625 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland.
►The Polk County Building Division opened a second permitting office at 28039 U.S. 27, Dundee.
►Watson Clinic added Anissa B. Hohnstreiter to work alongside board-certified otolaryngologist Dr. Jeffrey A. Paffrath, from both the Watson Clinic Bella Vista Building location at 1755 N. Florida Ave. in Lakeland and Watson Clinic Highlands at 2300 E. County Rd. 540A in south Lakeland.
