Selling out the Southern Lifestyles classic, quality furniture business and prime retail space to low-end City Furniture has been a huge downgrade of retail at Lake Sumter Landing.
Then to make it worse, the Distict Government offices moved into the beautiful retail showrooms next to Panera.
How many times do we have to watch classic, tasteful retail "downtown" shopping die? We all watched the slow death of it in other cities in the last 40 years, and now TV is doing it to the beautiful town square at LSL.
Please listen!!! People want quality, tasteful retail that's open in the evenings as our squares are. If all the storefronts turn into offices that close at 5pm, people will not come in the evenings and the death of "downtown" is coming.
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