{"id":11443,"date":"2021-05-26T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:31:13","slug":"amazon-seeks-to-double-its-operations-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/05\/26\/amazon-seeks-to-double-its-operations-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon seeks to double its operations in Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon wants to double its footprint and daily cargo flights out of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flylakeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lakeland Linder International Airport<\/a>. Its plans, however, will likely have to first face public scrutiny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazon.jpg 660w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Amazon-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon will host a public forum beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday at the RP Funding Center to present its plans for a nearly 63-acre expansion in Lakeland. A\u00a0public hearing will start at 7 p.m. where residents will have their opportunity to have their voices heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon opened its 285,000-square-foot cargo facility in the northwest corner of&nbsp;Lakeland Linder in July 2020.&nbsp;Now, the company is seeking to expand on 63 acres adjacent to its current facility&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theledger.com\/news\/20190517\/amazon-air-hub-coming-to-lakeland-with-1000-jobs-its-big-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under terms offered in its original May 2019 contract with the City of Lakeland.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon&nbsp;proposes&nbsp;to build an additional&nbsp;464,000-square-foot facility, nearly twice the&nbsp;size. Other proposed features would include a new fuel farm to store up to 24,000 gallon of gasoline and 72,000 gallons of jet fuel, additional employee parking with truck bays for ups to 350 vehicles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon wants to double its footprint and daily cargo flights out of&nbsp;Lakeland Linder International Airport. Its plans, however, will likely have to first face public scrutiny.&nbsp; Amazon will host a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-amazon-seeks-to-double-its-operations-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}