Construction begins on market-rate apartments in Lakeland

Developers are building the new complex to address housing needs as the city grows.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:05 p.m. September 1, 2022
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Developers building new apartment complex in Lakeland to address housing needs as city grows. (Courtesy photo)

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

Developers are working to meet the need for housing in Florida seem to break ground on a new community every day.

This time it’s in Lakeland, where Welcome Developments has begun construction on 160 market-rate apartments on Old Tampa Highway at Browning Road in Lakeland.

Welcome Developments, which is a subsidiary of Murex Enterprise from Brooklyn, moved into Polk County to meet a demand for housing as the county undergoes a boom of sorts. The company says economic growth is helping drive the need for apartments, pointing toward warehouse development Lakeland Linder International Airport.