120,000-square-foot retail and commercial center planned for Babcock Ranch
11 April 2023 | Lisa Hall
More shops: Babcock Ranch, the self-sustaining, eco-friendly master planned community in Lee and Charlotte counties, is adding more retailers. A new 120,000-square-foot center is being planned and construction could begin later this year. The center, to be called the Shoppes at Yellow Pine, will include a lakefront restaurant as well as space for retail and commercial and office tenants. Developers believe the center will attract general shopping, medical offices and a hardware store. Along with the new center, construction is underway on a freestanding Pet Supermarket and Starbucks with a drive-thru. The additional retail comes just about two years after Crescent B Commons, a Publix-anchored shopping center, opened, which gave the mostly out-of-the-way Babcock Ranch its first major retailers.
