{"id":59965,"date":"2025-12-16T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=59965"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:18:07","slug":"lakeland-commissioners-cancel-oak-street-parking-lot-development-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/lakeland-commissioners-cancel-oak-street-parking-lot-development-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Commissioners cancel Oak Street parking Lot development deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lakeland ended its contract with Tampa-based developer Onicx Investments LLC to build multi-family housing on the city’s Oak Street parking lot, raising questions of what development is financially feasible on that site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The commission voted 5-1 on Dec. 15 to terminate its May 2022 development agreement with Onicx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the 2022 agreement, Onicx was going to buy the 150-space public parking lot north of Oak Street and west of Kentucky Avenue from the city\u2019s\u00a0Community Redevelopment Agency\u00a0for\u00a0$1.83 million<\/strong>.

Onicx planned to spend around\u00a0$70 million<\/strong>\u00a0to build a donut-like, seven-story\u00a0mixed-use project\u00a0with apartments, townhomes, commercial space, a retail arcade facing Oak Street, and an embedded, three-story parking garage topped with a courtyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three years on, none of that has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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