By Kyle Coppola
Winn-Dixie In The Villages La Plaza Grande To Become ALDI
It’s confirmed. Winn-Dixie located at La Plaza Grande in Spanish Springs in The Villages will become an ALDI. Plans have been submitted for the conversion of Winn-Dixie into an Aldi. The building department of Lady Lake has received an application for the plans on turning the Winn-Dixie at La Plaza Grande into an ALDI location.
“The Winn-Dixie will be splitting the existing 46,400 square foot space into an ALDI location with 22,856 square feet,” Town of Lady Lake Communication Director Elisha Pappacoda says. “A future tenant space will also be added in the renovation with 23,856 square feet.”
There has been no timetable given for the conversion plans. The formal submission of plans is a likely precursor for what is coming. The conversion of the store would take several months. Recently, The Winn-Dixie at Lake Sumter Landing was converted to an ALDI to much fanfare. That location had sold off all it’s remaining inventory off the shelves before shutting down prior to Christmas in 2024.
The Winn-Dixie location at La Plaza Grande was the first supermarket to open in The Villages. Orange Blossom Gardens residents often talk about when they used to have to drive to Leesburg to get groceries. Publix was the second grocery store to arrive in The Villages after Winn-Dixie.
“I can confirm that the Town of Lady Lake Building Department has received an application and plans for the conversion of the Winn-Dixie at 944 Bichara Boulevard into an ALDI,” Elisha says.
We do not have a current closing date of this Winn-Dixie location but when we do, we will certainly update with that information.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
