►The Lake Crago Outdoor Recreation Complex opened a 144-acre park east of the Hollis Cancer Center, in north Lakeland, as the city’s first outdoors recreation complex with an aquatic theme. (Pictured above)
►HomeCourt, a restaurant invested in by retired NBA player Tracy McGrady, is opening at 3615 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland.
►Florida Polytechnic University made its first appearance in the national rankings of U.S News & World Report as a top 75 engineering college without a doctorate program.
►LoveBird: Almost Famous Chicken, a quick-service, Nashville-inspired hot chicken restaurant, opened in a former Starbucks location at the corner of South Florida Avenue and Beacon Road in Lakeland.
►Augie Schmidt sold the Century Boulevard Industrial Park for $7.05 million, which includes 124,500 square feet of steel warehousing space and is fully leased with 38 tenants providing income to the buyer.
►Shawn Sherrouse was named city manager for Lakeland.
►Lakeland-based Publix is expanding its distribution center in Greensboro, North Carolina, to include a dry grocery warehouse, which will add more than 1.2 million square feet of space.
