[happy employee]

We could sure use a Hooters!!!! As long as it wasn't Villages residents employee base.

[Steadfast]

Originally Posted by Happinow

We sure do need more of everything south of 466a, specifically another grocery store. Ever go into Publix in Colony during the day?? Most times you can barely get through the isles. I can't imagine what it will be like in another month. I think it was poor planning on The Villages end to only have one supermarket in that area. Now they are building another bank in that plaza.....just what we need.

If memory serves me correctly, there was a sign indicating that Sweetbay was going in next to the Library (South side of 466A). That sign was taken down a while ago and I have been told by a friend that the Sweetbay is now going in near Brownwood.

[skip0358]

Tilted Kilt would be nice.About the only place by golf cart would be the piece in front of the County Center where Sweetbay was going to go. I think Rt 44 is going to be the next 466. There are a few small pieces down in the Colony area and possibly E/O there on 466A outside TV. I know there are 4 sale posted but money is a big factor.

[tghoul]

County Road 466A & Lake Buena Vista Blvd., Wildwood, FL, 34785 - Retail-Pad (land) Property - Off-Market on LoopNet.com

[Shimpy]

Originally Posted by shcisamax

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Don't take the cows away. Or the horses. Or the open land. That's what Brownwood shopping is for. there is plenty of accessible shopping on 466 and in Colony and will be tons in Brownwood. I will be mighty sad if the cows don't come home.

I'm with you....People would have this place looking like NYC if they had their way. It's nice to be able to get into the country in a few minutes. I don't even want to see 466A widened to 4 lanes east of Colony. I enjoy the ride on 466A east of Colony to Micro Race Track Rd and north to Rolling Acres Rd.

[Skybo]

The cows are there for tax purposes. The land will eventually be sold and developed. And YES, we need another grocery store on 466a...the Publix in Colony is bursting at the seams, and it’s getting worse every day.

[mulligan]

There is already a PUD on file for that land. Assisted living, three story multi-family housing, and a small retail/ professional area. Re-zoning done, impact studies underway, and a search for grants and other financing is being done.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by happy employee

We could sure use a Hooters!!!! As long as it wasn't Villages residents employee base.

I heard they were building one to employ Villages Residents. It will be called Droopers.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Skybo

The cows are there for tax purposes. The land will eventually be sold and developed. And YES, we need another grocery store on 466a...the Publix in Colony is bursting at the seams, and it’s getting worse every day.

There were plans last year for a Sweetbay nearer to Buena Vista on 466A but apparently their corporate changed their minds. It is hard to convince anyone who hasn't been here what enormous growth we are experiencing. This is true of almost all large corporations. They can't believe that we have had this growth and most of it in the last eight years. i am thinking that the closest Rooms to go is in Ocala. How dumb is that? Same with Steinmart.

Kirklands and Kohls and TJMaxx got the picture. We just need to be swamping Publix Corporate with emails for another store on 466A. I am told that the one at Colony is their highest grossing store in the chain and takes in more than a million dollars a week!

We are an amazing secret if you ask me. The people who do demographics for corporate growth all must have lost their jobs because of the economic downturn.

Here is a contact link for Publix...https://www.publix.com/contact/SendUsAMessage.do

[shcisamax]

Originally Posted by mulligan

There is already a PUD on file for that land. Assisted living, three story multi-family housing, and a small retail/ professional area. Re-zoning done, impact studies underway, and a search for grants and other financing is being done.

Do you mean all the land out towards Fruitland? I won't throw a hissy fit if it is just the land between Morse and Buena but the other direction? Please say it isn't so.

As Brownwood gets built up along with Wildwood, we need to have some open air space. Otherwise, we start looking like one long strip mall ...yuck...and one of the most striking parts of TV is going from residential to shopping to rural. It is actually what attracted this citified suburbanite to the prospect of TV. I love to go across Rolling Acres as a poster above said and see the billy goats and the horses and the fields and the big sky along with cows and one very cantankerous bull.

Frederick Olmstead who designed and created Central Park in NYC felt the constant bustle of so many people in one place would create a less than optimal mental health status so actually built the park to be the place to unwind...I can't imagine NY without the park..it is the free zoloft.. I do hope we won't turn into just endless streets of endless people and endless houses and endless shopping. The open space is our Central Park.

Of course, they could put in a couple dog parks which would help

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by shcisamax

Do you mean all the land out towards Fruitland? I won't throw a hissy fit if it is just the land between Morse and Buena but the other direction? Please say it isn't so.

As Brownwood gets built up along with Wildwood, we need to have some open air space. Otherwise, we start looking like one long strip mall ...yuck...and one of the most striking parts of TV is going from residential to shopping to rural. It is actually what attracted this citified suburbanite to the prospect of TV. I love to go across Rolling Acres as a poster above said and see the billy goats and the horses and the fields and the big sky along with cows and one very cantankerous bull.

Frederick Olmstead who designed and created Central Park in NYC felt the constant bustle of so many people in one place would create a less than optimal mental health status so actually built the park to be the place to unwind...I can't imagine NY without the park..it is the free zoloft.. I do hope we won't turn into just endless streets of endless people and endless houses and endless shopping. The open space is our Central Park.

Of course, they could put in a couple dog parks which would help

Um...Shes...We have the golf courses. And we do need groceries. And stuff. We could start building tall buildings like New York but people need things and you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

[shcisamax]

Oh GG, of course we need groceries, but a couple grocery stores don't require miles and miles of land. And stuff? I thought the purpose was to get rid of stuff? And there is lots of stuff on 466 and 441 and in Spanish Springs and in Lake Sumter and will be more stuff in Brownwood and lots more stuff in Wildwood. And golf courses? Well....you definitely have a point. They are a huge visual beauty. I still vote for keeping some cows.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by tghoul

County Road 466A & Lake Buena Vista Blvd., Wildwood, FL, 34785 - Retail-Pad (land) Property - Off-Market on LoopNet.com

Bump

[tainsley]

Originally Posted by happy employee

We could sure use a Hooters!!!! As long as it wasn't Villages residents employee base.

I need a job! LOL

[shcisamax]

Not to be ignorant (still trying to figure out how to post a photo and what lots of those initials people put mean) but does bump just mean to check out what was said before? Kind of like an underline?