► 4 Rivers Smokehouse opened its 15th restaurant at The Shoppes at Lake Miriam Crossing, a retail and dining destination located at 4729 S. Florida Ave., in Lakeland. (Pictured above)
► Vegetation Cafe and Kitchen, a vegan restaurant, opened at 1437 E. Gary Road, Lakeland.
► The Lakeside Village shopping center, in Lakeland, has sold for $77.93 million to Continental Realty Corp., a Baltimore-based real estate investment firm.
► Tryp Air Charter, a charter operation in Tampa, expanded its services in Nashville and appointed Chaz Bragg to handle charter sales, exclusively in the Nashville area.
► Polk County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller Stacy Butterfield was honored as Clerk of the Year at the Florida Court Clerks and Comptrollers annual training conference.
► The Polk County Board of Commissioners approved Dale Henderson as the new director of Polk County’s waste and recycling division.
► The Florida Small Business Development Center at the University of South Florida added a new location, at 502 E. Main St., Lakeland.
► International Aero Charters, a Federal Aviation Administration-certificated air carrier, has launched a new, on-demand air charter operation at the Lakeland Linder International Airport.
► The city of Lakeland named Rob Hernandez as its new assistant city manager.
► AdventHealth broke ground on a new emergency room, in Winter Haven, on Cypress Gardens Boulevard.
► Lakeland’s Southeastern University launched a new trades program designed to train students in trades such as construction technology, project management, plumbing electrical fields and more.