{"id":60151,"date":"2025-12-19T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=60151"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:07:06","slug":"lakeland-commissioners-reach-compromise-on-mass-market-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/12\/19\/lakeland-commissioners-reach-compromise-on-mass-market-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Commissioners Reach Compromise on Mass Market Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a month of ill feelings, Lakeland commissioners unanimously approved three deals, allowing longtime tenants to buy the Mass Market-area buildings they occupy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The breakthrough came when Market Lofts Apartments, DOU Bakehouse , and Haus 820 presented written proposals, identifying their preferred outcome among options detailed by city staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland Commissioner Stephanie Madden called the outcome \u201ca Christmas miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McLeod pointed out that the three sales will yield nearly $3 million \u2014 $2,998,911 \u2014 that the CRA can use for other redevelopment projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Rewis, director of Community and Economic Development, stressed that the sums will be credits toward payment \u2014 not price reductions \u2014 so the recorded sale prices for each property will be the appraised value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means the businesses will pay taxes based on the full value, and nearby properties will benefit from comparable sales or \u201ccomps\u201d that recognize improvements made over the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All three contracts will include a 10-year \u201cright of first refusal\u201d clause that allows the city to buy the property back at market value if it\u2019s later put up for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a month of ill feelings, Lakeland commissioners unanimously approved three deals, allowing longtime tenants to buy the Mass Market-area buildings they occupy.  The breakthrough came when Market Lofts Apartments, DOU Bakehouse , and Haus 820 presented… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60154,"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":"12","_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,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTJcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTUtMi53ZWJwP2ZpdD0yNTklMkMxOTQmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJMYWtlbGFuZCBDb21taXNzaW9uZXJzIFJlYWNoIENvbXByb21pc2Ugb24gTWFzcyBNYXJrZXQgU2FsZXMiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.TSozE0qn19Rgh_V9G5ucjOjv3-AEpJYe-QYQ5GF2vtcMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":60154,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/download-5-2.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[12938],"class_list":["post-60151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-commissioners-reach-compromise-on-mass-market-sales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151","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=60151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60155,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151\/revisions\/60155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}