{"id":22307,"date":"2022-05-09T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=22307"},"modified":"2022-05-09T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T18:00:28","slug":"coca-cola-facility-set-to-add-50-new-jobs-invest-51-million-in-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/coca-cola-facility-set-to-add-50-new-jobs-invest-51-million-in-polk\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola facility set to add 50 new jobs, invest $51 million in Polk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Coca-Cola factory in Auburndale is going to add 50 jobs at its facility, in addition to $51&nbsp;million in capital investment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1110\" height=\"1110\" data-id=\"22308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/002989074.webp?resize=1110%2C1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22308\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" data-id=\"22309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/960326343.webp?resize=470%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22309\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-id=\"22310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flavors-hp.jpg?resize=300%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flavors-hp.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/flavors-hp.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility, located at 705 Main Street, specializes in non-carbonated beverages, such as Dasani water, Vitamin Water, and Simply Orange Juice. It also supplies a large number of drinks to Walt Disney World properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Polk County Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to approve a 10-year, 50% ad valorem tax exemption for the Coca-Cola facility.<\/strong> Ad valorem tax exemptions are incentives that can be provided for business improvements and expansions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The county is going to lose $159,770 in ad valorem taxes each year of the 10-year exemption, which will run from 2024 until 2033, according to the agenda. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early last year, Coca-Cola Beverages Florida&nbsp;announced it was moving its Lakeland facility to Winter Haven and adding 170 new jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coca-Cola factory in Auburndale is going to add 50 jobs at its facility, in addition to $51&nbsp;million in capital investment.&nbsp; The facility, located at 705 Main Street, specializes in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[6],"tags":[2816,2817],"class_list":["post-22307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-coca-cola-facility-set-to-add-50-new-jobs","tag-invest-51-million-in-polk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307","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=22307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}