Publix to build second store in Babcock Ranch

Publix plans to build its second Babcock Ranch store to anchor a new 140,000-square-foot shopping center planned in the solar-powered community.

The Lakeland grocer’s store will be in MidTown Marketplace, a commercial center which will be built around the development’s latest expansion.

MidTown, according to a spokesperson for developer Kitson & Partners, includes the new neighborhoods and parks along Babcock Trail and continues east to the where the center and a village green will be built.