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Originally Posted by njbchbum
my guess is that you guys hafta post to starbucks and panera and any other chain you want to see located close by! the developer does not bring any business into the villages - he just makes space available to them if they want to be here! you need to find someone who wants to open a franchise in that area!
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nfbchbum is right again. (Love that girl)
It would be a very good idea for someone to post email links to those chains that they would like to see here with maybe a form letter to use saying how
big we are now. (100,000!!!) Many demographers are not keeping up with the amazing growth that has happened here in the last six years. Many don't keep their fingers on the pulse of our age group. We need to make them aware that we are HERE and a big dang bunch of us with dollahs. dough, cash to spend.
The chains use demographers. So an avalanche of emails MAY help. It didn't help get us a get a Trader Joe's here when there was a big campaign of villagers to lure them a couple of years ago..
The Villages developers will build and rent but they
can't capture.
I am wishing that someone who does strip malls will start buying some of the small parcels near the new growth on 466A but I am sure that those folks have been waiting with their property priced sky high to make the sale of their life and live in luxury. It is kind of hopeless for that reason. The land nearby is VERY expensive.