Barnes & Noble and Lucky Goat Coffee move into Merchants Walk on South Florida Avenue
Where it is. On South Florida Avenue, about 300 feet from Taco Bell and about 0.2 miles from Walmart Supercenter. Distance measured from map data, October 2026.
Two of the places within a quarter mile, nearest first; the nearest large store is kept when there is one. Straight-line distance between the mapped points. Store locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), read Oct 15, 2026. Restaurant locations geocoded from the Florida DBPR active food-service licence file, read Oct 15, 2026.
Two tenant build-outs — Barnes & Noble and a Lucky Goat Cafe — are finished at Merchants Walk, and the Kimco-owned center is now getting a facade update.
At 3615 Florida Ave S — the Merchants Walk Shopping Center, owned by Kimco Lakeland 123 Inc — permit records show two notable tenant build-outs that are now complete. Suite 930 was fitted out for a Barnes & Noble bookstore (a $500,000 interior job finaled in December 2025), and suite 810 was remodeled to become a Lucky Goat Cafe (a $180,000 remodel finaled in October 2025), with a Lucky Goat Coffee sign and fire-sprinkler work also finaled.
More recently, the center itself is getting work. A $700,000 permit for facade updates across Merchants Walk was issued in November 2026, and a rooftop air-conditioning unit was replaced at suite 810 in July 2026.
The records describe permitted construction and tenant fit-outs; they do not give opening dates.
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ims.lakelandgov.net · City of Lakeland sign-in required BLD25-04279 — Lucky Goat Cafe remodel
ims.lakelandgov.net · City of Lakeland sign-in required BLD25-05977 — Lucky Goat Coffee sign
ims.lakelandgov.net · City of Lakeland sign-in required BLD26-04686 — Merchants Walk facade updates
ims.lakelandgov.net · City of Lakeland sign-in required LFD25-00226 — Barnes & Noble fire-sprinkler modification
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