Package deal: Long-vacant former post office given new lease on life

Commercial investors passed on it for more than a decade. Now a local government will give it a go.


Mark Wemple. Bill McDaniel, city manager of Plant City, at the old post office the city purchased for $315,000.
Mark Wemple. Bill McDaniel, city manager of Plant City, at the old post office the city purchased for $315,000.
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It took eight months of wrangling with the U.S. Postal Service bureaucracy and working with a local historical society to piece together a muddled title. But in December, Plant City officials finalized its acquisition of the former downtown post office, a building on the prime corner of Reynolds and Wheeler streets that sat vacant and dilapidated for more than a decade.

 

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