{"id":56057,"date":"2025-06-04T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=56057"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:37:58","slug":"one-liners-news-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/06\/04\/one-liners-news-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"One Liners \u2013 News in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Merlin Entertainment<\/strong> announced a $90 million investment to launch a new, first-of-its-kind, indoor roller coaster at LEGOLAND Florida Resort, <\/strong>in Winter Haven, and LEGOLAND California Resort<\/strong>, set to open in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ready Chapter 1<\/strong>, a Lakeland-based publishing platform startup, named Kenneth Burke<\/strong>, former vice president of marketing at Text Request<\/strong>, as an equity advisor to help drive its growth strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J. Crew Factory <\/strong>will open a 6,368-square-foot store, this summer, at Lakeside Village,<\/strong> in Lakeland, joining the open-air mall\u2019s retail lineup ahead of Nordstrom<\/strong> Rack\u2019s <\/strong>expected fall opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rec Room<\/strong>, a bar and arcade venue, in downtown Lakeland, received unanimous approval from the City Commission to expand its space, at 202 N. Massachusetts Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orlando Health <\/strong>and Watson Clinic<\/strong> announced a new partnership to open the Orlando Health Watson Clinic Lakeland Highlands Hospital<\/strong>, marking an affiliation rather than a merger or acquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aldi<\/strong> opened, at 6902 S. Florida Ave., replacing the former Winn-Dixie<\/strong> location in Imperial Christina Plaza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Polk County Board of Commissioners<\/strong> appointed Shawn Smith<\/strong> as the new Polk County Fire Rescue chief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Contractors<\/strong> completed Lakeland Regional Health\u2019s<\/strong> new 24,000-square-foot freestanding emergency department, in South Lakeland<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parlor Doughnuts<\/strong>, a craft donut and coffee shop, opened, at 351 E. Bay St., in downtown Lakeland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arcade Aviation LLC<\/strong> has signed a\u00a040-year lease\u00a0with the city for 16.4 acres at the northeast corner of the airport, abutting Drane Field Road.\u00a0Plans to build a nearly $100 million, three-hangar aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facility, which should be open in 18 to 24 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merlin Entertainment announced a $90 million investment to launch a new, first-of-its-kind, indoor roller coaster at LEGOLAND Florida Resort, in Winter Haven, and LEGOLAND California Resort, set to open in 2026. Ready Chapter 1,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56058,"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":"14","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDZcL0xMRlItSW5kb29yLUNvYXN0ZXItMS0xNTM2eDExNTEuanBnLndlYnA_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM3Njcmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJPbmUgTGluZXJzIFx1MjAxMyBOZXdzIGluIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.q54-uyQXTOk2F6QsaGuv-8_1xPoPyukPOD14fGD6E-UMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":56058,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LLFR-Indoor-Coaster-1-1536x1151.jpg.webp","type":"image\/webp"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[11598],"class_list":["post-56057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-one-liners-news-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56057","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56059,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56057\/revisions\/56059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}