Since this interchange would be developer funded. My guess is that it would either happen in the moderate future or not at all. Assuming that the developer's primary business model is to sell new houses, it wouldn't seem to make sense to spend many millions of dollars for an interchange unless he would have a fairly long period of time of new home sales where he could recoup his expenses through increased home sales.

Quite frankly, given the cost for such endeavors, I am skeptical that this interchange would ever be built - I just can't imagine the business case for it ever being positive. But, I certainly would welcome it.

In TV, infrastructure improvements are paid by the county and included in the Bonds which are paid by the buyers of the new homes. No cost to the developer.


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Ok their corporate office is hear in Seattle and some of my friends at the Macys buying office went over there when we where laid off. I have pulled the statistics on TV and will forward it to them, who knows, they unlike most are still growing like gangbusters, which for a small company means 1 to two stores a year.

Tommy Bahamas???
 

My wife and I went to Sarasota to meet with another couple where the wife was a long time schoolmate of my wife's.

We were going to celebrate at Tommy Bahamas for supper. After we looked at the prices listed we walked out. This was some time back so I can't quote numbers by memory but I do remember they were very exorbitant.

Tommy's prices are quite high, but IMO their offerings are nice.

Around here (probably different in TV) alot of TB's products are given as gifts and for special occasions and not too much for day to day needs.

If the rent isn't too high they might do well in one of the town centers.

I hear you, but when you step back a bit, all costs are ultimately borne by the home buyer. If the developer paid for the interchange out of his own pocket he would pass the cost on to the buyer. If he used bonds, he still passes the cost off to the buyer. Hence, in both cases the costs of the interchange needs to make sense from a business case perspective - i.e. the more the buyer has to pay, the less likely he is going to buy unless the benefit of the interchange outweighs the costs.

Somewhere I remember reading that the interchange cost was in place of impact fees. Can not find the source of that information.

food or clothing
 

I thought that Tommy Bahama was a clothing operation. Bahama Breeze is a restaurant. Unless you like to chow down on shirts and trousers.
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While you're on the floor, you might want to check out the menus at these Tommy Bahama restaurants. I checked, but couldn't find shirts or trousers on any of them.

http://www.tommybahama.com/TBG/Cafes...FRJ4xgodWHNh8Q




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Tommy Bahama
 

Jeff -
Here are some photos of the furniture - the pictures don't show well the beautiful woods and details of the items.
I must admit it is out of my price range but it is really good looking and "islandy"!

http://www.lexington.com/brands/list...ahama-Original

Nearby stores listed: http://www.lexington.com/store-finder/results.cfm

There is a Tommy Bahama store in Myrtle Beach - not far from us in NMB. You are all partially right.

• It has island-y clothes for both men and women.
  
• It has a restaurant and bar - sometimes with Jimmy Buff-alikes playing some tunes.
  
• It has some home accessories. Most of the furniture (manufactured for TB by Lexington) is sold at furniture stores, like Southern Lifestyles.

The prices are high - but the clothing seems to be well made (I own one item so don't think I can make a judgment from that). The food is as you would expect from a restaurant chain - pre-packaged from Sysco or a similar company. And NOT inexpensive...

oops
 

my mistake.
sorry
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New Tpwn Square
 

I was told this weekend, while visiting, by two different sales persons, that the new Town Square would be in full swing sometime in 2011.

Richard and Lee

That's probably sales pitch talk.

Don't always believe a sales rep - when I first looked at places here I was told TV would be completely built out by 2010.