To those who asked, "will there be entertainment AND will it be public"? If one reads the article it talks about entertainment AND one can know that the public will be welcomed as well. NONE of the squares are limited to JUST the residents here. I think The Villages is different from other Over-55 communities as the commerce is interspersed to make it feel more like a community (town/city). If you go to live in others those folks have to rely on near-by communities for the dr's, shopping etc. We have friends in Nocatee where to get any of those "amenities" they have to drive (and not by golf-cart) up to half an hour for any of it. The Villages have a business plan that goes out for many years. SOME of what we're experiencing here was thought about and talked about at meetings 20-25 (maybe more) years ago. To build roads and infastructure plans need to be made and shown at a state/local level, then permits all have to be filed for those. People complain about how "slow" they seem to be but truly they aren't. It will be interesting to observe the progress of these new areas!
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