Merger creates widespread urban planning leader

Lakeland’s two largest architecture firms morph into ‘I-4-based’ monolith, with a size and smarts approach to courting clients.

  • By John Haughey
  • | 6:00 a.m. April 19, 2019
Calvin Knight. Brad Lunz says the merger between his firm, The Lunz Group, and WMB-ROI, both in Lakeland, will lead to more opportunities for both entities. Â
Calvin Knight. Brad Lunz says the merger between his firm, The Lunz Group, and WMB-ROI, both in Lakeland, will lead to more opportunities for both entities. Â
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More plus more, in expertise and sectors, is the linchpin that launched a recent merger of two of the largest Polk County architectural and design firms. Yet the tie-up, of WMB-ROI and The Lunz Group, says one of the executives in the deal, was more shotgun marriage than long courtship.

 

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