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Originally Posted by pauld315
This is way off the mark. I personally know a very successful restauranteur who wanted that space and I have had others tell me there was more than one who proposed taking it over. The Villages had other plans for this space and they didn't want to invest the money to repair the facility back to working order so they made it impossible for anyone to take it over The previous operation was not supported because the food and service were both bad and people refused to go there anymore, which is the way a horrible restaurant should be treated.
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I challenge the veracity of that. If that were so it would not have sit empty for so long. Plus remember that HERE in the Villages, restaurants are LEASED for five years, not owned. To say that "they didn't want to invest the money to repair the facility back to working order" is your opinion and your summary of people who are responsible and whose business rests on keeping things in good working order.
It appears that as neighborhoods and areas have occupants who are getting older they do not go out as much and business at restaurants fall off. Especially too that people want good food cheaply. Most restaurants do NOT have anyone cooking back there. Most unload, open containers, heat them up and pour sauce over the meat and shlep some mashed potatoes with it and throw some packaged lettuce mix in a bowl and add a cherry tomato and a cucumber slice and put ranch dressing on it.
People are throwing opinions around about what will happen next. What will happen next is that apartments will be built. Hopefully they will be inhabited by the same kind of mostly responsible people who now live in The Villages. Hopefully all this angst and worry will turn into a ...Oh Well. Nothing much here to see situation.
I am glad this is a CDD and not a homeowners run the place situation. There are a lot of people who have never run anything who are now urban authorities.