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“The Interstate 4 corridor is really the high growth part of the state of Florida, particularly from a logistics perspective,” says Jonathan Tratt, whose Phoenix-based company recently bought the 1.02 million-square-foot Amazon.com fulfillment center in Lakeland on County Line Road.
Source: Business Observer
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