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A roughly 13-foot-tall, 30-foot-long dragon sculpture made of recycled scrap metal and salvaged antique-shop items suddenly appeared in September 2019 on a vacant lot in Lakeland's Dixieland neighbourhood, on the site of a demolished house at 116-118 W. Park Street. Designed and fabricated by artist Keith Maximillion Williams of 4th Dimension Art & Fab, it was sponsored by developer Gregory Fancelli (whose company owns the site, eventually planned for apartments) and Brooke Babicz Agnini, and stands as recognised public art -- a popular but fragile, sharp-edged sculpture visitors are asked to photograph rather than climb.
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Dixieland Dragon
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Site-level location · 28.0272° N, 81.9448° W
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A freestanding sculpture on a vacant lot. Admission, hours and access terms are not documented in the sources reviewed; check locally before visiting.
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Ordinary public viewing at Park Street and the alley just west of Florida Avenue, Lakeland (behind Hungry Howie's, between Park and Belmar Streets); visitors are asked not to climb the sculpture.
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