Plantation Grove Shopping Center: A Local Favorite for Everyday Shopping in Ocoee
The Publix-anchored plaza on Maguire Road that quietly serves four West Orange County communities
Plantation Grove Shopping Center is a 107,776-square-foot, Publix-anchored neighborhood retail center located at 2600 Maguire Road, Ocoee, FL 34761. It sits just south of West Colonial Drive (SR 50), minutes from SR 429, SR 408, and Florida's Turnpike. The center serves residents of Ocoee, Windermere, Gotha, and Winter Garden with roughly 30 tenants including Publix, Publix Liquors, Keke's Breakfast Cafe, Marco's Pizza, Regions Bank, Banfield Pet Hospital, and a range of restaurants, fitness studios, and personal services. Plantation Grove is owned and managed by InvenTrust Properties, a Sun Belt retail REIT.
Every Central Florida neighborhood has one — the shopping center that isn't flashy, isn't on a tourist map, and isn't anybody's destination on a Saturday afternoon. You just go twice a week without thinking about it. That's Ocoee's Plantation Grove Shopping Center in a sentence.
Tucked along Maguire Road just south of West Colonial Drive, Plantation Grove is the unflashy backbone of daily life for a wide circle of West Orange County residents. It's the Publix run, the pizza-on-a-Tuesday place, the dry cleaner, the vet visit, and the breakfast-before-work stop — all in one 107,776-square-foot plaza at a four-community crossroads.
Where Plantation Grove Sits (and Why That Matters)
Plantation Grove's address is 2600 Maguire Road, Ocoee, FL 34761. That puts it just south of SR 50 and directly north of Moore Road, with a geographic advantage most strip centers never get: it sits at the seam where four communities meet. Ocoee is to the north, Windermere is to the south, Gotha is to the east, and Winter Garden is to the west.
The highway access is nearly as convenient. SR 429 (the Western Beltway) is a few minutes west, SR 408 (the Arnold Palmer Expressway) runs just to the north, and Florida's Turnpike is a short hop away. Orlando Health — Health Central Hospital is less than two miles north on Bluford Avenue, which is partly why so many of the center's service businesses are medical-adjacent.
A Little History: Built for the Late-'90s Housing Boom
Plantation Grove grew up alongside southwest Ocoee's residential boom. Through the 1990s and 2000s, new subdivisions like Wesmere, Brookestone, Sleepy Harbour, and Windsor Landing filled in the land between Maguire Road and Lake Johio, and the plaza went up to serve them. Publix has been the anchor from day one at just under 48,000 square feet.
Today the center is owned and managed by InvenTrust Properties, a Sun Belt retail REIT that specializes in grocery-anchored neighborhood centers. The tenant mix has steadily shifted toward fitness studios and specialty dining, but the blueprint is unchanged: Publix in the back, restaurants and services wrapping around, and a long ribbon of free parking in the middle.
What's Actually in Plantation Grove (The Current List)
Most "what's in this shopping center" articles are copy-pasted tenant lists from 2012 that still name businesses that closed five years ago. We pulled the current leasing directory. As of spring 2026, Plantation Grove's lineup includes:
Grocery & Anchor
- Publix Super Market — the anchor at approximately 47,955 square feet
- Publix Liquors — a separate storefront a few doors down
Restaurants & Coffee
- Keke's Breakfast Cafe — one of the busier tenants at 4,400 square feet
- Marco's Pizza
- Grand Central Pizza Station
- Umami Sushi & Izakaya
- Pio Pio (Peruvian-style chicken)
- Thai Time Diner
- Sukoy Hibachi Express
- The Brave Burger
- Bombay Social (Indian)
- Lion's Lounge
- Ellianos Coffee (drive-thru)
Fitness, Wellness & Personal Services
- Club Pilates, StretchLab, Smart Fitness, E&A Dance, Victory Martial Arts
- MassageLuxe Spa, Lindora, Orange Wellness
- Hair Cuttery, Creative Nails & Spa, Nail Care Spa
Everyday Errand Stops
- Regions Bank
- Banfield Pet Hospital and Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming
- The UPS Store
- First Class Cleaners and Acme Cleaners
- The Closing Agent (title company)
The tenant list shifts from time to time — a few spaces are actively available for lease at any given moment — but that's the current working inventory. If you're comparing other nearby options, our Ocoee Shopping Guide and Ocoee Restaurants guide round out the picture.
Who Actually Shops Here
Plantation Grove's unofficial catchment is bigger than its Ocoee address suggests. The Publix inside is rated a "Neighborhood Favorite" across more than 25 separate communities on Nextdoor, spanning Ocoee, Windermere, Gotha, and Winter Garden. Regulars come from Ocoee subdivisions like Windsor Landing, Sleepy Harbour, and the Village of Wesmere; Gotha communities like Windermere Chase, Saddlebrook, and Lake Fischer Estates; and Windermere neighborhoods like Reserve at Belmere and Merrick Landing.
Translation: if you move into a home along the Maguire Road corridor or anywhere south of SR 50 between Ocoee and Windermere, Plantation Grove will almost certainly become your default Publix. It's one of the few centers in West Orange County where "what's my grocery store going to be" gets answered before you close on the house.
The Real Deal About Shopping Here
The Pros
- Publix at full size — not a scaled-down format, with the full prepared-foods deli, sub counter, and pharmacy
- Mix of national chains and independent restaurants (so you're not just picking between two fast-casual chains)
- Abundant surface parking — no deck, no paid lots
- Genuinely useful for one-stop errand runs: vet, dry cleaner, bank, UPS, groceries in a single loop
- Quick SR 429 and SR 408 access if you need to keep going
The Cons
- Maguire Road traffic backs up hard at rush hour, especially at the SR 50 intersection
- No sit-down full-service restaurants with a dinner-out feel — it's casual dining territory
- Layout is classic strip — not walkable between pad buildings, so you're moving the car between errands
- Weekend Publix parking around noon is a test of patience
Local Tips for Making Plantation Grove Work for You
A few things regulars figure out after six months in the area:
- Best times to go: Weekday mornings and mid-afternoons are calm. Sunday between 11 and 2 is chaos.
- Keke's Breakfast Cafe has a line on weekend mornings — mobile order or go before 9 a.m.
- Ellianos Coffee is a drive-thru, so it's the fastest coffee stop in the plaza if you're en route to SR 429.
- The Publix Liquors and Publix grocery store are in separate units — plan your loop accordingly.
- If you're coming from Windermere or Gotha, enter from Maguire Road south of SR 50 to avoid the worst of the SR 50 light cycle.
For broader retail comparisons in West Orange County, see our guide to West Oaks Mall and the Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves article. For grocery-specific comparisons across the city, our Ocoee grocery stores guide maps every Publix, Walmart, and Aldi in the area.
What the Locals Know
Plantation Grove isn't the kind of place anyone brags about — nobody moves to Ocoee because of it. But it's the kind of everyday infrastructure you notice immediately when you don't have it. Southwest Ocoee homes hold their value partly because residents can get groceries, a haircut, a vet visit, dry cleaning, and dinner for four in a 10-minute loop.
If you're house-hunting in Ocoee, Windermere, Gotha, or eastern Winter Garden, put Plantation Grove on your scouting list. Walk the plaza on a Tuesday evening. That's the version of it you'll actually live with. 🛒
For official leasing information, current availabilities, and property details, visit the Plantation Grove page on InvenTrust Properties.
Thinking about a home in southwest Ocoee or the surrounding Maguire Road corridor? Browse Ocoee homes for sale or reach out to our team for personalized advice on the neighborhoods that rely on Plantation Grove every day.
