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Originally Posted by rkimball
Same with the restaurants:When we first moved to The Villages years ago the restaurant at the Santiago Club was standing room only. The developer then allowed the tenant to let this property fall into disrepair. (?)So now its up to us residents to buy and maintain this building as another small rec. center/pool hall. If he, the developer did not want to be in the restaurant business he should not have built them in the first place.
But, of course, they were big selling points to future home site buyers. A restaurant/club house right across the street. Remember Chula Vista. Now El Santiago. Next Tierra Del Sol and then Havana.
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Whoa. Here I am in defense of the developers...again. In the beginning they ran the restaurants and believe me they ran them well. It appears to be part of their earlier business plan to establish the business and then sell the established restaurant business to someone to run.
Just recently both The Lighthouse and Cane Garden were sold to the people that had managed them for some time. I hope they will continue to be successful. The Developer still owns and rents the physical buildings as I understand it. Havana, Evans Prarie and Bonifay were all rented to restaurant business tenants immediately on completion.
Why do some posters attribute so many failures to the Morses? Because they are rich? Because they are successful?
Why do so many people just out and out hate them? I don't know of a soul who has ever KNOWN any of them. There
is a possibility they
might be nice.