Former Merita Bread Site to Become Truck Sales and Service Center


The former site of the Merita Bread manufacturing plant at 2200 S Division Ave (MAP) which faces I-4 will be getting an 81,000 sq. ft. truck service center and dealership called Maudlin Truck Sales & Service (Website).

The property is located within the South Orange neighborhood.

Maudlin's current location is just down the street at 2300 S. Division Ave. (MAP)

In 1924, before the Merita Bread plant came to be, the property had been the northern portion of the Poinsettia Park Subdivision. In 1955, a petition was filed with the Board of County Commissioners to close, vacate and abandon certain streets within the subdivision. No one appeared before theBoard of County Commissioners in opposition. (READ