Publix opens Sarasota store, its 12th new location this year

The Lakeland grocer's new store is the first in the new Benderson-developed Fruitville Farms project.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:30 p.m. April 11, 2024
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Publix Super Market’s new store is the first in the new Benderson-developed Fruitville Farms project in Sarasota.

Manatee-Sarasota

Publix Super Markets has opened a Sarasota store in a newly developed center that eventually will house the county government’s new administrative offices.

The Lakeland-based grocer’s new 48,387-square-foot store — one of three it is opened this month — is in Fruitville Farms, a mixed-use center being built by Manatee County-based Benderson Development.

Benderson, in a statement announcing the opening, says Publix is the first tenant in the development at the intersection of Fruitville Road and Lakewood Ranch Boulevard.