Looking at this months "The Villages Magazine" I noticed something small but I think significant. On the second page of the center circular shows a map of the Villages. The Brownwood area has been renamed Brownwood/Fenney.
Just an observation.

It would make a perfect bedroom community for those work commuting to/from the Orlando area.

The Village Developer has a large investment in Brownwood. In addition to keeping his key contractors working, (And I think they really do care about their employees) the building south of 44 protects the millions invested in Brownwood. :beer3:

I admit, I'm scratching my head on this one... An allied TV-like community? Hmmm... if it's not golf-cart accessible between units (which is THE organizational rule of TV expansion) then is this purchase some sort of parallel TV universe, a same but different expansion? The greater minds of TV are up to something, and it must be something big?

Some people like being on the dark side of the moon. Really no golden rule what makes the villages. If they sell, it worked.

When are the developers going to get interesting things in Brownwood. And I have been to all these places.

Movie theater is A+
City Fire is a C+
Dunkin does what it is suppose to do so B
Pet Store, A
Hair place, B
Nails C
Italian place, C
Wall of Beer C
German place C
Spice Store A-
Bike Store A-/B+
Ticket office A+
Brownwood Sales office: B
MVP (undecided)
Clothing Stores D
Tourist Stores D
McAllister's: A- Best in Brownwood to eat
Five Guys: C- good food, dirty place
TooJays: D
Cody's C
Med Supply story (closed)
Golf Cart Store: A
Insurance: A

Basically some great places, but BORING!!!!!

Step up the game

Bonus:
Market Saturday is an F
(the veggies and fruit sold aren't from farms of the sellers. Flies and bugs around the pasties and bread. One guy has a truck of rocks he sells (god bless him, nice rocks). Publix seems better.

And the final group just complains to complain. What a sad life for those. When their glass gets 1/2 full, they should get a refill.

;)

A picture from today's Daily Sun. The property is larger than what is shown in the picture on Post #1.

It never made sense to me that they built Brownwood on the very edge of The Villages. It seemed that you would a town square more centrally located. Now it will be.

I think that we're going to find that the businesses in the three town squares will be very similar. They are not meant to give variety to the residents but rather to have these businesses close to resdients.

In other words, residents of Fenny and Southern Oaks and whatever else is built south of 44 will not have to travel all the way to LSL to eat at Toojays.

I suggest everyone attend or watch the meeting with the Morse Family when the expansion will be explained. As for the lack of stores in Brownwood as more people come to the area so will the stores. If with all the announced expansion a few of the Big Box Stores don't come into the area ( Not TV ) then they're just crazy.

Really? Nothing but good? I have only been here a little over 8 years and from my perspective the unabated growth has only made the quality of life worse. The traffic on the main arteries, has become much worse; in what other retirement community in the country must you take into account traffic delays to get from one part of the community to the other? Tee times, especially during the winter on the executive courses are much harder to get. To get a parking space in Colony Plaza during the winter requires you to follow people out to their car just like the malls up North at Christmas time. Trying to get a time to swim or walk in one of the exercise pools now is very difficult. I am hard pressed to think of anything positive that has come about by the unrestrained growth.

I moved to Central New Jersey in the early 70s and at that time it was a very pleasant place to live with uncongested highways and lots of open space and farms. Over the years of continued growth and sprawl it eventually became a place that was no longer a great place to live. I fear that the same thing will happen here.

How the issue of town squares unfolds will be interesting to follow. Even without the additional property that has been acquired, the people in Fenney and the other villages south of 44 will have a much longer golf cart ride to get to a town square than any other people in The Villages. With building going on as far south as below Leesburg, I can only imagine that yet another town square will have to be built if they want the people buying down there to buy into the concept of the golf cart lifestyle of The Villages.

One person's C is another person's A and vice versa. You can't please all the people all the time.

How much longer is it actually going to be than it is today from Osceola Hills or Pine Hills to Brownwood on golf cart once all the streets etc are built south of 44 and there is a clear way people on golf carts will traverse to Brownwood? It is a long way on a golf cart to Brownwood today from both of those villages. Guess we will have to see when it is developed.