Lakeside Village is decked out with festive decorations and a massive new Christmas tree with synchronized lights that dance to holiday music.
But that’s not the reason the shopping plaza at Harden Boulevard and the Polk Parkway won the commercial beautification award this month, according to Stacy Smith, Lakeland’s chief horticulturist.
“Over the years, if you’ve watched them, if a hurricane came through and some trees disappeared because of that, they got replaced,” Smith said at the Dec. 1 City Commission meeting…