The acreage was purchased in 2007 and put into trust in 2016.

The Lakeland property is massive – approximately 900 acres within unincorporated Polk County. Some tribal members lived on the Tampa Reservation until the Hard Rock opened in 2004.Ĭonstruction of the security gatehouse at the Lakeland Reservation. The Lakeland Reservation – located about 37 miles east of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa – will serve as the new reservation for the Tampa tribal community. Some of the homes are for purchase and others will be set aside as rentals. When all is said and done of four phases of homebuilding, there will be 147 single-family homes, each on 1-acre lots. Phase one will see 47 new homes in total. Seventeen new homes have been completed as part of phase one of the community. They’ve been long anticipating the completion of homes on the new Lakeland Reservation site.

(Photo Rick Morales/Jacob Cos.)īuilding a new housing development takes time – something that hasn’t been lost on Seminoles in the Tampa area. When fully completed, phase one of the new Lakeland Reservation will have 47 homes 17 had been completed by the end of October.

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