The community is unique in many ways from the architecture to the zoning.  The town is not zoned for high density residences so huge buildings with thousands of residents will never popup.  Planners also created a road that connects Celebration directly into Disney World Parks and resorts so locals and guests can get to Disney without having to use the busier main roads.  The city is styled after a 1940’s era town.  A pedestrian shopping area is encompassed by nearly 2,500 homes making up Celebration.   

Celebration was designed with five principles in mind: community, education, health, technology, and a sense of place.  Locals and tourists see all of these whether aware of it at the time or not because they are everywhere in Celebration.  The design includes great outdoor activities that are hard to find elsewhere.  Community parks and playgrounds are numerous, walking and biking trails stretch for miles, a community pool and tennis courts give residents options of places to spend the day.  You can even hit the links at the signature golf course in town.  The atmosphere created here is resident friendly and leaves you feeling safe and comfortable at all times. 

Since Celebration was created the growth has led Disney to give up some control of the town.  Later in 2004 Disney sold the city center to a private investment company yet the area still retains the Disney feel it began with.  In 2007 Celebration won the American Dream Town Award, just one of multiple awards it has won in its tiny existence.  Disney took the ideas that made towns successful and adapted them to create a city that will work in the present and future called Celebration.  Celebration also has Magnet public schools and is only a short drive for the Orlando International Airport making it an attractive area to grow roots.

The events held in Celebration are numerous and worth experiencing.  Some of the events are:

• Celebration Town Center Winter Sidewalk Sale
• Spring Art Festival – First weekend in April
• Celebration Exotic Car Show – Second weekend in April
• The Great American Pie Festival – Third weekend in April
• A Flashback 4^th of July – July 4th
• Summer Sidewalk Sale – Third weekend in July
• Falling Leaves in Celebration Town Center – Month long beginning at the end of September
• Oktoberfest in Celebration! – Second weekend in October
• Alfa Romeo Car Show – First weekend in November
• Now Snowing Nightly in Celebration Town Center – End of November through December 31^st
• Radio Disney Holiday Concert – Third weekend in December

There are many more events including community garage sales, the “Great American Pie Festival”, and twice a year Disney holds a liquidation sale to sell older merchandise.  The festivals draw crowds from all over the state and give Celebration many more reasons for residents to enjoy the area.

The colleges by Celebration include:

• Valencia Community College
• Polk Community College
• Rollins College
• University of Phoenix – Orlando Campus
• University of Central Florida
• Seminole Community College
• Travis Technical Center

All of these colleges are great places to attend for an education that you can easily commute from Celebration.  Stetson University has a small hub in the town center of Celebration too. 

As noted before the parks and lakes are speckled throughout the city.  The amount of green space that is available for residents to take walks or bike on it tremendous.  The trails wind all around the city and make access easy no matter where you live.  The lakes are great places to enjoy a day on the water or taking a kayak out on Bonnet Creek fully immerses you into nature.

Celebration is a newer established city that was created to bring together all of the things that worked in cities and remove all that has failed.  The goal was accomplished and the area has received many national awards in recognition for how the city was developed and continues to grow in this same vision as it began.  The dream of having a place with good schools where you feel safe and secure and is an easy commute to Orlando has come true in Celebration.