It was built to be a suburban utopia, conceived and run by Disney. A decade later, a lot of the magic is still there, but some reality has set in and the people who live there want to be their own town.
Over the years, that town has grown from 350 to 10,000. They have christened a new hospital, a new high school and, soon, the town’s first Starbucks. Despite the growth, many agree that Celebration has retained the very qualities that drew them here: crime-free neighborhoods, pedestrian-friendly streets and a near-universal desire to know one’s neighbors.
There’s one thing that Celebration doesn’t have, not yet, anyway: democracy.