I looked at the pictures on their website. Mostly an enormous pool. There are a few kayaks and a few inflatables. If they want my continued business they would have to have at least a large solid corkscrew slide or a lazy river.

The heat sink idea makes sense. I heard seco is planning a new nuclear power generation station next to the prison at coleman.

This would be a great addition to the area and 35 bucks a person is a bargain compared to the price of a water park.

I’ve been to the one @ Epperson in Wesley Chapel and it’s amazing. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth the drive to check it out.

Jacksonville already has this concept:
The Exurbs Are Growing Faster Than Jacksonville Itself | WJCT NEWS

I can’t think of a person I know who’d be interested in this monstrosity, maybe grand kids? Please don’t come anywhere near Lake Sumter with it!

As a 50-something year-old planning to move to TV in a couple years, I'd LOVE to have access to an amenity like this. The pictures I've seen show people kayaking, wind surfing, paddle boarding, sailing. Those are all activities I enjoy and would like to have a nice venue to do them without worrying about alligators, weeds, snakes, bacteria, and all the other nasty things a "real" body of water has.

The pond is a part of the old water treatment facility run by Leesburg. It’s been cleaned up significantly in the last 2 years since the villages acquired the property. No clue to its future use. Substation is only about 3 years old and air cooled.

I believe you, at your age I would have thought the same. But near Lake Sumter we are talking about a small space in unswimable water to put something like this in. Noisy stuff near already built homes. Now if you’d like it in one of those swampy areas far south, I’d be ok with it.

Someone is claiming the TV install is news to the Morses.

So this person appears to be claiming to have spoken to one of the Morses. I have no link to an "official" source.

It could be the Lagoon representative used The Villages incorrectly to identify the one that's being put in near by.

Water Park
 

Personally, I would love to see a 'senior' water park where there are escalators to the top of the slides. Weeeee

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That would be awesome! Even better would be glass elevators!

On Sundays, we ride our bikes thru St. Catherine and Citrus Grove. We usually ride thru the neighborhood just south of the new Homestead Rec Center and north of the Substation.

Some of the new lots look directly onto the nasty-looking pond you referred to. It has a tall chain-link fence around it with barbed wire on the top, and I think it is ugly.

I bet The Villages will remove that pond before they start building homes.

Do you know where it will be located in The Villages?

See post 1 thru 53.

Once build out is complete the website states the facility will no longer be offered to the public. So if they have acquired property anywhere near that the developers of TV doesn’t own I wonder if the same could happen.

So if you buy a home in the Lagoon development, it could be open to the public, until all homes are sold. Then could be private. At 2000 tickets per day some days are sold out near their facility near Tampa. That a pretty impressive number of tickets.

Now THAT’S something to look forwards to… especially if the glass elevator is included for the slide.

I would be astonished if the developers would be at ALL involved with this independent and separate commercial entity.

I read a bit about it this week as I could not post, I was banned for a week. It appears that they have a lot of plans, as Goldwingnut pointed out, and not much actual STUFF.

WHO would want to have it close to them??? Not really many Villagers who get unhappy with the sounds of children in swimming pools and the sound of pickle balls bouncing.

It appears to be a commercial money making business geared to the younger crowd, but I could be wrong. I was apparently wrong on this forum and had to sit in the bad chair for a week.

I will try to follow the rules. I don't like being on the outside looking in.

I don't think this water park has ANYTHING to do with the developer and The Villages at all.

I'm gonna steal that idea!

So location is in Sumter, that could be anywhere the developers don’t own property. Or maybe this is a big secret that got out, who cares. I am so happy to kayak, and paddleboard to fall in the water and not worry about a gator or a snake. I know many use the lakes here, but I am not comfortable with the lakes here.
Wherever this is, it will be popular and have many sold out days. I am guess there will be a pass holder option like the parks. Since there has been an a public statement, property has already been acquired, (like Disney acquired property quietly) or otherwise shooting them selves in the foot.

It sounds to me like this company is trying to sell franchises. There is one in Wesley Chapel.
Here is another article, but not a lot "official".

Crystal Lagoons Florida, the largest pool in the US

Wesley Chapel is near Tampa. Looks like it requires a little over seven acres to have a Lagoon;

Metro Lagoons – Welcome to Paradise

Our dear friends sold their home in St Charles, some time ago, and moved to the Lagoons in the early stages of building, in Wesley Chapel. Little know fact Wesley Chapel has the largest Indian retirement community in the US.

They love the Lagoon area, the homes built by the developer, and as they said, the lake is gorgeous. They use it pretty much everyday. Bonus for them its close to Tampa, which is important to them. They always send photos of them paddle boarding, sitting in a cabana, and swimming with their granddaughter.

They do miss friends, but didn’t play golf, or attend any clubs, or classes. We were to travel down to spend a week with them in March of 2020, but plans had to change. So we have known for awhile, about the development, didn’t have to read online. We travel to WC for restaurants and shopping, we have loved the area since 07.
The Lagoon will go private soon as most of the homes are sold in the final phase. We hope to travel down early fall.

We are Lake people, from day one, so it is the one thing we miss more than anything, in TV. We travel north in the summer to the lake cottage, so we can still enjoy the lake, that is crystal clear, sometimes a little chilly, but so worth it. Then zip over the one of the Greats for more fun.