{"id":27336,"date":"2022-11-25T06:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2022-11-25T06:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:39:29","slug":"city-commissioners-gave-away-800000-to-two-manufacturers-to-expand-and-hire-175-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/11\/25\/city-commissioners-gave-away-800000-to-two-manufacturers-to-expand-and-hire-175-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"City Commissioners gave away $800,000 to two manufacturers to expand and hire 175 new jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maxresdefault-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maxresdefault-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1280w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">$800,000 dollars <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keymark Corp. of Florida, a custom aluminum parts manufacturer, will receive $400,000 from the city&#8217;s new Economic Development Infrastructure Incentive to expand its facilities in Polk County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keymark employs about 340 people at its Lakeland facility off Knights Station Road. Joe Crenna, Keymark&#8217;s vice president, and general manager said the company was looking to relocate and expand in Central Florida. The Ruthvens were able to help Keymark identify a 76,000-square-foot facility to build a painting facility where it will add 25 new jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, Frinsa will receive $400,000 from the city&#8217;s new Economic Development Infrastructure Incentive. Frinsa a European manufacturer of canned fish and seafood, is looking to make Lakeland the home of its American operations, said Otis Coracides,\u00a0Frinsa USA&#8217;s managing director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frinsa plans to build a 180,000-square-foot facility at 900 N. Chestnut Road in Lakeland&#8217;s North Business Center, across from Kathleen Senior High School. Coracides said the plant will bring 150 new jobs to the area, paying a rough average of $55,000 a year. At full buildout, its facility will have five manufacturing lines representing an investment of at least $21 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keymark Corp. of Florida, a custom aluminum parts manufacturer, will receive $400,000 from the city&#8217;s new Economic Development Infrastructure Incentive to expand its facilities in Polk County.&nbsp; Keymark employs about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27337,"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":[6],"tags":[3933,3932],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-000-to-two-manufacturers","tag-city-commissioners-gave-away-800"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","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=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}