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Originally Posted by CWGUY
 From today's Daily Sun Page C-1
Spanish Springs Square opened 1998
Lake Sumter Square opened 2004
Brownwood Paddock Square opened 2012
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I was going by memory on two of these. In 2014 they held a 20th Anniversary for Spanish Springs, so 20 years earlier would make it 1994. So TV Sun is wrong with that one.
With regard to Brownwood area no new homes were built until 2011, I went to the first open house in August 2011 on Braddy Ct in Sanibel. The square had some buildings go up in 2012 but activities didn't really kick into gear until the Florida Lottery Night with the Flamingos was held. I shot a video of that and uploaded it to youtube, that was March 9, 2013. The Sun estimated 7,000 people at the square that night. So 2012 they broke ground but nothing happened until 2013.
Flamingos Live at the Villages, Florida the Paddock Square 3/9/2013 - YouTube
With Lake Sumter Landing, I remember getting a lifestyle video of the new square, Lake Sumter Landing in 2007. Probably the same as Brownwood, it probably took a couple of years before there was much activity. I know I looked at a home in Tall Trees, which is the first village south of 466 and it was built in 2005. That's 2-1/2 miles north of LSL, I would think 2007 would be more realistic as far activities and stores rented.
Either way, these dates only go to show that a 4th Square is probably somewhere between 2025 and 2030.