►A team of Florida Polytechnic University faculty, staff and students, in a partnership with AdventHealth, is working to build critical personal protection equipment for clinicians treating patients amid the current COVID-19 pandemic. (pictured above)
► SVN Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate, in Lakeland, brokered a total of $27.993 million in sales and leases of land and commercial property in the first quarter of 2020, bringing the brokerage’s total transactions since 1996 to $2.93 billion.
► A Jaguar Land Rover dealership is planned to be built along Interstate 4 at 2550 Interstate Drive, Lakeland.
► The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a new program called the Unmanned Systems Operations Program, which will reside within NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations in Lakeland.
► Dean Saunders, founder, managing partner and senior advisor of SVN/Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate in Lakeland, received the Realtors Land Institute APEX Awards Program’s 2019 Broker of the Year Award, in the Ag Land Sales—Ranches category, winning the award for the second year in a row.