Another commercial site planned near Brownwood
 

A small development with four one-story buildings for retail, restaurant, and medical office uses is planned for the site where the now-closed O'Shea's restaurant is located.
http://wildwoodcityfl.iqm2.com/Citiz...50&Inline=True

Oh, Please let it be "HomeGoods"!!!!

Dottie my wife wants a Home Goods also but I'm afraid it would bankrupt us.:$:

There was a thread going about a year and a half ago that the fellow who owns the Holiday Inn at Spanish Springs was going to build a motel and bowling alley at the O'shea location. https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...g-alley-80688/

I know EXACTLY what is going up there.

BUT - I won't reveal it for another year or so................

Let me guess::: A Subway, a bank or two, a small Chinese restaurant, a couple of small other restaurants like frozen yogurt, Beef's, a nail salon, insurance store, some sort of postal/mailing store, barber store. Not sure about the small clothing stores (not to be confused with stores with small clothing), and probably a Walgreens. I don't know about a grocery store??
The rest hopefully will be a surprise. Actually, I hope the entire retail area is full of things we currently don't have and will actually like!!!

We definitely need some meaningful retail on the south side of the Villages. We can only hope the developer or other entity is going to invest in something other than 800 square foot speciality shops

What we really need is a good car wash south of 466A-in time for love bug season

From an extremely reliable source, the current bowling centers owner (the Ducats) did purchase land close to Brownwood, but not in The Villages proper. This purchase happened at least 3 years ago with the intent of building another bowling center. The sign that went up announcing a future center near O'sheas on SR 44 was on land owned by someone named Patel. The fact that the Ducats have not proceeded with their third bowling center as yet leads me to believe they probably won't anytime soon. But , this is only my opinion and they could announce a new center tomorrow. As far as I know, neither center would be golf cart accessable.
And I thought I read awhile back that Home Goods announced a new store near the Brownwood Publix.

I agree and guess what... It is going to be a Hooters! So ladies if you man is not golfing you will know where to find him. :a20:

How about not something we want but, something we need.....a good hospital at the south end of the villages.

costco? Trader Joes?

Could you find where you read that?

???

I'd prefer an Urgent Care Center. And, of course, a Bealls Dept. Store :-)

we could still use a good hospital in the North end as well

A neighbor serves on the Hospital Board and he says that the plan is to have a larger hospital (which is building now) . We are only 17 miles from stem to stern.

If I were the TV hospital I would want a significant ambulatory presence in/near Brownwood to keep the competition at bay. An urgent care center, maybe a stand-alone ER, surgery center, etc. if they don't someone else will. You should recommend this to your neighbor, GG.

I don't know exactly what it means to serve on a hospital board. I just neighbor.

If they build it maybe a large teaching hospital will come run it. That is what I want. I imagine it is leased for a certain length of time.

I know they had talked about opening another hospital in the south but I think I remember something about they had more chance of attracting more doctors with a bigger facility.

so I am just guessing and trying to remember what was told me.

I know that this was your life work dbussone, and I am not meaning to contradict you.

Because we all know they read TOTV daily; like all the restaurant owners, shop owners, golf ambassadors, golf course maintenance managers, etc.
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I am just guessing that if one successful urgent care is doing good business they may look to open another one.

Huge drawback for whatever opens there - it is not golf cart accessible!

Yes, some make it without being golf cart accessible but lots fail because of that reason.

An Urgent Care Clinic ----maybe-----another hospital----unlikely. For those living near Brownwood you already have two fairly close hospitals. Leesburg and The Villages.

Rumor has it that the widening of 466a to 301 is only a precursor to the eventual golf cart path to the Russell Stover outlet

Who failed because they weren't accessible by golf cart?

The Irish Pub on the south side of 44....the same area this thread is about.

YES...If I can't get there in my golfcart then I won't get there.

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Russell Stover? :a20:

Bogie, I have searched the sites that I frequent, and even looked for future locations on the Homegoods website. Nothing. I "thought" I read that somewhere because we had a Homegoods in Myrtle Beach and I am familiar with shopping there. And I thought that was a good thing they were coming to The Villages. Of course, I could be mistaken...

You are assuming the location would be across CR44. Have you looked at the land to the west of Brownwood and the N side of CR44?

The developer builds to suit the business they try to attract. The developer cannot be Home Goods and cannot make Home Goods come here. But they wish they would, I am sure.

You sure know how to fire up the rumor mill !!

I am here to serve :icon_wink:

Dogs, Kids, Round-abouts, Gated Communities, Stickers, and the shortage of Pickles.

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John_W, that thread was about the parcel east of O'Shea's and is the same parcel that bagboy is referring to.

According to the Sumter County site, in March 2013 Steven Parramore sold that parcel to Wildwood Enterprise LLC.

In February 2015, development of that parcel was reviewed and approved by the Wildwood Planning and Zoning Board - discussed here: https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...wnwood-141496/
The proposal showed the owner as Wildwood Enterprise and the applicant shown on that proposal was Alpesh Patel.

So I don't think there will be a bowling alley or hotel in that location. Maybe somewhere else?

Home Goods
 

About 4 months ago, I was told by the manager of Home Goods in Winter Garden that The Villages would be getting a Home Goods store in 2015 and it would be located off 441, near Home Depot area. I keep waiting to see something in the paper about it coming soon.

I sure hope there is a Home Goods built somewhere in or near The Villages...I am beginning to think I am seeing and hearing things that aren't real lol.

All these large companies everyone wants such as Costco, Home Goods, Fresh market etc. make extensive surveys of areas, and all the urging from TOTV isn't going to sway them to move here if the numbers don't turn out to be profitable. Same is true by putting it in your yearly survey. They are very experienced at picking locations on their own.............well, with the exception of Target in Canada.

If you have ever been to the Tilted Kilt in Orlando, you would enjoy having that here too. I went one time with my 86 year old friend, he looked at the bartender and said he "wouldn't need a blue pill for that"... :1rotfl: