No, the closure is temporary per The Daily Sun yesterday.

This is incorrect. The sign says they are closed temporarily due to slow business due to the pandemic and The Sharon and town square entertainment being closed. The note in its entirety is included in the highly misleading news story that implies in the first sentence this temporarily closed restaurant will be turned into apartments. This is not reporting, it’s fostering gossip and fear. http://www.**************.com/2020/0...9-and-turmoil/

Paranoia and overreaction has caused a lot of this. COVID-19 should already be in the rearview mirror as the cases and the death rate have dropped below the pandemic stage a long time ago. That said, I sold food to restaurants for over 20 years of my sales career. Restaurants closing and reopening under new ownership and new names happened constantly.
Time will tell, but I believe other restaurants will move in to those spaces. The catch is they need people to support them. That’s not gonna happen if people are running around in a panic with masks over their faces afraid to go anywhere! I was at too jays SS a couple weeks ago and will miss it.

Businesses closing
 

We residences need to patronize the businesses that therremain open until the others are able to get back to business. Spanish Springs will come back maybe not like it is now but however people will show up. The music scene is a selling point for future residents, where else can you find towns around the country with outside music/ entertainment there are probably some places but not many.

There is no conspiracy here. Restaurants are closing here and all over this country and all over the world because many, many, many people are afraid of dining indoors or being with crowds.

If nightly entertainment returns to the squares at full blast, as a potential apartment dweller in SS , I’d not rent until both ears went south so I could remove my hearing aids and not be bothered by the nightly noise.

Show me the plans in writing you mentioned. Are you sure you aren’t just complaining as exaggerating because you are upset about Katie Belles ?

Over 120000 people live in The Villages. Most enjoy it. Like anywhere else there are some that may be unhappy. Let's see what happens when it all shakes out. Lots of factors involved here. Most decisions made by the developer have been good.

Bringing the "president" into this is only going to start a political conversation which we all know is prohibited. <wink>

Demshares small business loan
 

I read here that Demshares recently received a small business covid19 disbursement of over $150,000 to cover employees salaries and other expenses. Then they close and no employees have jobs. How exactly does that work. Is this reimbursement for monies spent or is the just another way to play the system. Just doesn't sound right. Shouldn't they maybe give the money back? It seems a lot of different small businesses received funds that I believed were for continuing operations and were then used instead for other things

That money would have been used to pay their employees for the last 6 months and I believe it was also allowed to be used for rent. There will be no paying it back.

I’m sure that if and when they build apartments on this square we will lose the nightly music and dancing because of the noise. Just my opinion

I would like to see all people who will be proven to have made exaggerated posts and posted unfounded rumors about the apartments to run naked around Spanish Springs Square.

But then...maybe I wouldn't like to see that.

Which member of the Morse/Schwartz family wrote this

That's not what it says on their website. Scroll down to see.

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