LAKELAND – The Streamsong Resort in southern Polk County gives a glimmer of hope that the local economy can emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis as it plans to bring back some 100 workers next month among the other 268 people fired this year. .
Workers will return next month when Streamsong re-open two golf courses and two restaurants, executive leader Richard Mogensen said.
“We’re doing pretty well. Bookings are good,” Mogensen said. “Things are starting to work out in the fourth trimester. “
Streamsong is one of Polk’s five corporations with layoffs of more than 10 people who filed reports under the Federal Workers Adjustment and Recycling Act, or WARN, which requires a company to issue a notice when layoffs meet certain criteria. Economic opportunity.
Two other Polk corporations that filed such alerts were also rebuilt, Miller’s Ale House in Lakeland and Cineopolis Cinema in Davenport, and recovered more than 60 transitional redundancy workers.
All layoffs were similar to the pandemic, except for the Joyson Safety Systems facility in Lakeland, which will permanently lay off 37 employees.
Streamsong Resort fired two hundred workers in March as they entered the slow spring and summer months, Mogensen said.
He reopened the hostel in early May with a golf course, called “Black Course,” and two restaurants, P2O5 and Bone Valley Tavern, he said. It is owned by fertilizer manufacturer Mosaic Co. et is built in an old phosphate mine. .
Streamsong fired 68 workers in June because the company met expectations, according to WARN’s opinion.
Streamsong will reopen its red and blue golf courses next month along with two restaurants, Sottoterra and Restaurant 59, Mogensen said.
All 4 restaurants will operate at 50% of their capacity, as required by state rules, and all services will adhere to COVID-19 rules through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, he said.
Streamsong opened Blue and Red Golf Courses in December 2012, and the resort and amenities opened in January 2014.
The pandemic struck after Streamsong was a year old in 2019, Mogensen said.
It will take a few years to get back to that level, he added.
Miller’s Ale House at 5650 S. Florida Ave. closed on March 21 and fired employees, according to his WARN notice.
The place to eat reopened in early May only for takeaway orders, then reopened the dining room a month later, said manager Johnathan Benitez.
More than 50 of the dismissed painters recoiled, he said, some had left the domain or had to repaint for fitness reasons.
Business goes and gets better, Benitez said.
The nine-screen Cinépolis cinema at Posner Commons in Davenport closed its doors on April 3, leaving 14 workers inactive, warned.
The theater reopened in late August and brought in 11 workers, said Brian Monahan, the director.
Ticket sales “aren’t as smart as I’d like, yet it’s been slow and steady,” he said. “It’s getting bigger every day. “
The news is so positive for the other two corporations that they have filed WARN notices with more than 10 layoffs in Polk.
Guest Services, a Virginia-based company that manages recovery operations, filed a notification that it will fire 14 other people from its Operations at Florida Southern College in Lakeland until September 25. The company did not respond to calls from The Ledger.
Most layoffs will occur in the cafeteria and at a Steak ‘n Shake restaurant, according to the notice, while others will come to small food vendors throughout the campus: Buck Stop, Cyber Café and Terrace.
None of the services will close, Greg Williams, spokesman for Florida Southern.
The layoffs would possibly be similar to the fewest academics on campus due to the pandemic, he said.
Florida Southern has changed all of its bedrooms to a singles occupation, Williams said, and many courses are presented online.
Joyson Safety Systems layoffs are similar to COVID-19, corporate spokesman Bryan Johnson said from its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The company designs and manufactures automotive protection equipment, such as airbags.
The layoffs come from Joyson’s 2018 acquisition of assets of Japan’s Takata Corp. , he said. Takata filed for bankruptcy that year after being forced to remove more than a million airbag inflators internationally after many of them were not deployed.
The acquisition led the company to consolidate many of its facilities, Johnson said. The 37 workers worked on the design and manufacture of airbag systems, also made through a Jayson plant in Moses Lake, Washington.
“On the floor where this generation is located, there is not enough activity for the lines in either facility,” he said.
The Lakeland plant, which began in the 1980s as Breed Technologies, will employ 108 engineers and technicians once layoffs are completed until the end of the month, Johnson said.
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