Developer plots mixed-use project led by organic grocery

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Tavistock Development Co., developer of the master-planned Lake Nona community in Orlando, will bring its development experience to Lakewood Ranch.

Tavistock officials say the company will build a new project in Lakewood Ranch called The Green, according to the East County Observer, sister paper of the Business Observer. The plaza will be anchored by an Earth Fare organic grocery store and a yet-to-be named fitness center.

Tavistock's roughly 40-acre project, which will also include salons, restaurants and neighborhood uses, will be at the northeast corner of Lakewood Ranch Boulevard and State Road 70 in east Manatee County.

More than 500 people lined up before 7 a.m. to be first through the doors at Earth Fare's grand opening for a new store in Seminole in September, the East County Observer reported.