Gooding’s corner grocery store in Celebration, Florida,

Gooding’s corner grocery store in Celebration, Florida, closed, as many residents feared, when a new, larger Gooding’s opened near the highway. However, a new market/bakery is scheduled to open in the same 5,000 sq. ft. space in January 2005, according to Francis Jenkins, spokesman for Lexin Capital, which owns Celebration’s town center. The Towne Centre Market & Bakery is being run by two of Celebration’s residents. Lexin could have quickly leased the space to a restaurant, but listened to residents, who wanted to keep a grocery store.u