[Birdie Dreamer]

Originally Posted by Chinook

I was in the little Costco in Altamont springs last week and I happened to talk to a manager, he said that people are flooding them with requests for a Costco near the Villages and they are now looking at two locations. The formula they need is an area of 25 square miles with a population of 250 thousand and 50% of that population with a household income of 60 thousand or more. He indicated they were almost there.

That would require a population density of 10,000 per square mile. Since The Villages is 32 square miles, we need 320,000 residents. Sounds like there is something wrong with the criteria that you were quoted.