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Originally Posted by tophcfa
I agree with your post, but feel a couple of things need to be added to put things into proper perspective.
The developers plan "B" was to present something much worse than the already bad plan that they shoved down the throats of everyone living in the area. And yes, there was really no need for a plan "B", because the developer has removed all reasonable checks and balances to their powers, making their wishes our demands. As you say, their plan is game, set, match. Screw the existing homeowners, we are on to the next source of profit.
As far as the last point, that one is very sad, but true. "Get used to it or move" you say. It appears that is what the utopia that Harold Schwartz and Gary Morse created has come to? You would think that the generation of the Morse family, the three siblings that each inherited a BILLION DOLLARS when Gary passed on, would recognize that the GOOD WILL created by their vision was not derived by trying to squees water out of a rock. Harold and Gary understood that if you listen to your clients, and cater to their needs, it will create good will and enough corresponding profits to make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. The new generation is burning up the goodwill off of the family balance sheet at an astronomical pace. I can only hope that they don't totally wipe out the great place they were so fortunate to inherit in our lifetimes.
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When this is completed and works out well and is not an eyesore I hope some of the posters will acknowledge it on this Forum.
Given a choice most people would opt for housing nicely done for those getting older than a big box store.
All of the restaurants so far in "Country Clubs" that have failed is an indication that they were not financially supported and people didn't like them and eat there enough to keep them going. People say they want this or that but it is market driven if it succeeds or fails. Restaurants are very tenuous businesses. I wouldn't be surprised to see that Orange Blossom and some of those South of 466A fail too in a year or two.
I don't think the theater that is "the toy of the developers children" will make it either. And we will have another empty building for people to fight about.
Out in the real world restaurants in Country Clubs have not done well historically. Thank Goodness we aren't being charged for food we don't eat like some members of private country clubs have been in the past. I used to enjoy Cane Garden, but not so much anymore.
Villagers want good for cheap. That is hard to provide and will get worse with the beating the economy is taking due to the Pandemic.