1,400 Residences Planned for Wedgewood Golf Course

North Lakeland’s 90-year-old Wedgewood Golf Course has been sold to developers who propose building nearly 1,400 homes — including more than 1,100 apartments — on the 117-acre property south of Lake Gibson.

Mulberry-based SJD Development LLC purchased the golf course on Dec. 15 for $4.5 million from Kanes Golf of Florida LLC, owned by Sun Shin, according to Polk County Property Appraisers Office records.

Before the sale was recorded, a development application and project review application was filed in November by Lakeland attorney Robert Stanz on behalf of Jonathon Hall of SHD Properties, which has the same Church Street address in Mulberry as SJD Development.

The proposed Gibson Trails project underwent initial reviews by city planners in December and went before a development review panel on April 12. The next step is to mail notifications to surrounding landowners, which are to be dispatched no later than Friday. 

The proposal is scheduled to go before the city’s Planning & Zoning Board for a May 17 public hearing and final vote on June 21. It could then go before the city commission in July and be approved by August.

A 10-page Wedgewood Vision Document presented to city planners by engineering firm Kimley-Horn’s Lakeland and Orlando offices outlines the proposed redevelopment of 117 acres of Wedgewood Golf Course’s “segmented developable area.”

The preliminary “residential infill development” proposal includes 11 parcels. Among them are:

• Five multifamily parcels containing three apartment complexes totaling 1,028 units
• Four parcels where 204 townhomes can be built
• One 16-lot single-family-home subdivision on 7,200-square-foot lots
• One parcel designated as a 150-unit assisted living facility