2010 - It's Growing Out of Control!
Around 2010, numerous developers began pushing for annexations that totaled 650 acres, bringing the largest decade incremental growth of the city limits.
This causes the size of Groveland to more than double in less than ten years.
A massive population increase brings the city's population from 2,300 in 2000, to 8,729 citizens by 2010.
This time marks the end of the small rural town and the strong relationships among the residents.
Chris Ford Commerce Park located in the close proximity to the FL Turnpike, begins development of several distribution centers and is annexed into the Groveland city limits.
In 2014 Groveland is ranked the 5th safest city based on crime rate data
In 2017 the City of Groveland annex's the largest single annexation of 2,500 acres encompassing Villa City.
The Villa City development is the largest proposed development ever within the Lake County boundary, and will include more than 7,500 mixed use residential dwellings
In Dec 2019 the City leadership approved a revised Future Land Use map geared toward preserving its natural and agrarian landscape.
This new approach is also designed to create walkable Towns, Villages, and Hamlets that better connect people to Groveland's wonderful outdoor habitat.
By 2020, Groveland has become the second fastest growing city in the state of Florida (The Villages is number one).
The population has more than doubled to 18,000 residents and city limits increased to more than 26 square miles.
2021 - Kroger, our country's largest grocery retailer in partnership with UK‐based online grocer Ocado are preparing for their grand opening of the newly built high‐tech e‐commerce distribution center located in Christopher Ford Commerce Park. This new robotic plant will pull orders for a new innovated Online home ordering of grocery's to be delivered to the door step using a timely high tech and low cost methodologies.
[Contributors: Jason Brown, Richard Helfst]