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kittygilchrist 06-12-2013 06:33 PM
great topic, Gary gary bo barry.
a tuna packing plant serving freebie leftovers for my kitty Raul.

buggyone 06-12-2013 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Shimpy (Post 691304)
There is absolutely nothing to attract people to Brownwood in the morning until they have a couple of choices for breakfast. You'd be surprised how many of us are early risers and breakfast is our favorite meal. I'm not talking about donuts or pastry's but a full breakfast menu including eggs, bacon, pancakes, potatoes, etc.
At least Lake Sumter has a lake and boardwalk that people enjoy. Brownwood has nothing until lunch or evening.
Just go over to Cracker Barrel and get all the good breakfast you want. Get in your golf cart and motor over to Lake Sumter Landing and have some fine breakfast in less than 15 minutes at TooJays.

Why worry about what is not in Brownwood when in a few minutes you can be at Lake Sumter Landing?

Shimpy 06-12-2013 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by buggyone (Post 691308)
Just go over to Cracker Barrel and get all the good breakfast you want. Get in your golf cart and motor over to Lake Sumter Landing and have some fine breakfast in less than 15 minutes at TooJays.

Why worry about what is not in Brownwood when in a few minutes you can be at Lake Sumter Landing?



Best breakfast in Lake Sumter is Johnny Rockets followed by TooJays. I'm not worried about Brownwood, but would like to see it be a success and to also have more variety for us.
We love our breakfast and have many places that are outstanding that are up to an hour from our bubble and we go to frequently.
The best kept secret in TV is Athens next to Katie Bells.

DougB 06-12-2013 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by bwint7 (Post 691229)
A Texas Roadhouse would go so well with the Brownwood theme and they have great little steaks. I also agree that a Dairy Queen would be nice. Nothing like their chocolate dipped cones.
Nothing Texan about Brownwood. Brownwood’s design is based on old-look architecture of Old World Florida and takes residents back to a time in the 1800’s when Florida’s cattle hunters and cowboys roamed the state

MLBellis 06-12-2013 07:42 PM
Christmas trees shops (it is not a christmas store)
A Mall with good stores
A rodeo
petting zoo
Old fashion Saloon
would like to see the workers dress old west
a cowboy stunt show

Uncle Tom 06-12-2013 08:31 PM
Less traffic
 
Just saying..........

buggyone 06-12-2013 08:57 PM
Traffic in The Villages? :1rotfl: You folks never been to a real city like Boston, Washington DC, or Pittsburgh to see what traffic really is and why we are so happy to be FAR, FAR from the traffic?

Bogie Shooter 06-13-2013 07:50 AM
The posts on this thread make for humorus reading. So many pie in the sky wants. So many people that just cannot wait for the area to develop. Wonder if some even looked around before signing on the dotted line............

moosemose 06-13-2013 07:53 AM
Would LOVE to have Trader Joes, Costco, Home Goods

Bavarian 06-13-2013 12:27 PM
There are plenty of restaurants for breakfast like Bob Evans and Perkins. Isn't the place getting too built up already? If you wanted all the stores of your old home, why not stay there? We are giving up fresh streamed blue crabs, many stores, small churches, etc.? but did that 40 yrs ago when I moved to the County from Philadelphia area. Instead of wanting what you had in your old area, enjoy what you have now.

OldManTime 06-13-2013 01:03 PM
More night police patrols

Bogie Shooter 06-13-2013 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by OldManTime (Post 691628)
More night police patrols
Why is this needed?

BettyCrocked 06-13-2013 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 691648)
Why is this needed?
Most would rather have it before it is needed than after.

golf2140 06-13-2013 01:57 PM
Hooters, they have great wings !!!!!!!!:boom:

batman911 06-13-2013 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by The Buckeyes (Post 690766)
All the park land has been turned into golf courses!
Not quite. The developer has a huge chunk of land right in TV that could be donated for park use. Maybe as a last official act before they move on to greener pastures. Just a suggestion Gary.

NJblue 06-13-2013 02:37 PM
I'd like to see a playground for grand kids. The playground in Sumter Landing is pretty poor. There are a lot of things in and around TV for older grand kids to enjoy, but we are getting resistance from our kids to come down here with our young grand kids. They are too young for Disney, bowling, miniature golf, fishing, etc. so visits down here tend to be a bit boring for them.

Bogie Shooter 06-13-2013 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by NJblue (Post 691702)
I'd like to see a playground for grand kids. The playground in Sumter Landing is pretty poor. There are a lot of things in and around TV for older grand kids to enjoy, but we are getting resistance from our kids to come down here with our young grand kids. They are too young for Disney, bowling, miniature golf, fishing, etc. so visits down here tend to be a bit boring for them.
There is a nice playground at the Charter School.

graciegirl 06-13-2013 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by BettyCrocked (Post 691657)
Most would rather have it before it is needed than after.
Is there a problem?

Geewiz 06-13-2013 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 691728)
Is there a problem?
It's those Hooter girls. Wild and vicious.

graciegirl 06-13-2013 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Geewiz (Post 691748)
It's those Hooter girls. Wild and vicious.
Ummmm, here in The Villages they are called "droopers".

NJblue 06-13-2013 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 691714)
There is a nice playground at the Charter School.
We went there and were turned away as it is used by the nursery school.

Shimpy 06-13-2013 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by NJblue (Post 691702)
I'd like to see a playground for grand kids. The playground in Sumter Landing is pretty poor. There are a lot of things in and around TV for older grand kids to enjoy, but we are getting resistance from our kids to come down here with our young grand kids. They are too young for Disney, bowling, miniature golf, fishing, etc. so visits down here tend to be a bit boring for them.
This is a retirement community and most of us didn't move here to please young grand kids for one week out of the year. To tell you the truth I can't believe how many movies they have playing that can only be for kids. My wife and I look at the movies playing and all we see is Ironman, Superman, Spider man, etc. Nothing we want to see.

NJblue 06-13-2013 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Shimpy (Post 691828)
This is a retirement community and most of us didn't move here to please young grand kids for one week out of the year. To tell you the truth I can't believe how many movies they have playing that can only be for kids. My wife and I look at the movies playing and all we see is Ironman, Superman, Spider man, etc. Nothing we want to see.
So, you've done a poll to assure you that you are in the majority? Based on the number of older grand kids that I see around here, I would say you are in the minority.

As far as the movies are concerned, I assume they are there to make a profit. Those that choose the movies do so with respect to which ones will draw the most people.

Shimpy 06-13-2013 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by NJblue (Post 691849)
Based on the number of older grand kids that I see around here, I would say you are in the minority.

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Your original post talked about grandkids that were too young for Disney and that was what I was talking about. To me too young for Disney would probably be about 3 or 4.


Your quote:
"They are too young for Disney, bowling, miniature golf, fishing, etc. so visits down here tend to be a bit boring for them"

LuckySevens 06-13-2013 07:41 PM
Texas Roadhouse
 
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Originally Posted by DougB (Post 691336)
Nothing Texan about Brownwood. Brownwood’s design is based on old-look architecture of Old World Florida and takes residents back to a time in the 1800’s when Florida’s cattle hunters and cowboys roamed the state
TX Roadhouse might not be Old World Florida, but its design has a cowboy look about it with rough boards, peanuts on the floor, etc.. Plus, they sell more steak than anything else. Just seems like a good fit to me! Plus they serve good food at very reasonable prices. It would certainly fits the theme better than City Fire Grill...IMHO.

NJblue 06-13-2013 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Shimpy (Post 691876)
Your original post talked about grandkids that were too young for Disney and that was what I was talking about. To me too young for Disney would probably be about 3 or 4.


Your quote:
"They are too young for Disney, bowling, miniature golf, fishing, etc. so visits down here tend to be a bit boring for them"
Do these older grand kids get born as 5 year olds?

DougB 06-13-2013 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by LuckySevens (Post 691880)
TX Roadhouse might not be Old World Florida, but its design has a cowboy look about it with rough boards, peanuts on the floor, etc.. Plus, they sell more steak than anything else. Just seems like a good fit to me! Plus they serve good food at very reasonable prices. It would certainly fits the theme better than City Fire Grill...IMHO.
Long Horns much better than Tx Rosdhouse. Just my opinion. To each his own

Bogie Shooter 06-13-2013 10:18 PM
Steakhouse opened a couple years ago in LSL............didn't last a year. Food was reported to be very good...............no one supported the $15 steaks.

graciegirl 06-14-2013 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 691937)
Steakhouse opened a couple years ago in LSL............didn't last a year. Food was reported to be very good...............no one supported the $15 steaks.
And therein my dear lies the basic problem. Not that a lot of people don't have the bucks but they are now on a fixed income and being careful to see that they don't outlive it.

Restaurants just can't have entrees over the twelve dollar range and survive. Maybe for a treat or once in awhile will people spend for a more expensive meal, but not usually.

Bavarian 06-14-2013 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 691968)
And therein my dear lies the basic problem. Not that a lot of people don't have the bucks but they are now on a fixed income and being careful to see that they don't outlive it.

Restaurants just can't have entrees over the twelve dollar range and survive. Maybe for a treat or once in awhile will people spend for a more expensive meal, but not usually.
Texas Roadhouse is not expensive. Unless you buy their special behind glass cuts. Just because people live in The Villages does not make them poor. Otherwise they would not live in The Villages. But, many of the place mentioned are right outside "The Bubble".

More important would be to have restaurants stay open later and movies to run later. Don't close everything down at 2130.

TVMayor 06-14-2013 02:25 PM
Texas Roadhouse restaurant.

manaboutown 06-14-2013 04:56 PM
a New Orleans style "Mimi's Cafe", a smokehouse "County Line", a high quality French restaurant, and seafood restaurants such as Wildfish Seafood Grille and Gulfstream, a high end Mexican restaurant such as Javier's, Dillard's, Nordstrom, Costco

jblum315 06-14-2013 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 692293)
a New Orleans style "Mimi's Cafe", a smokehouse "County Line", a high quality French restaurant, and seafood restaurants such as Wildfish Seafood Grille and Gulfstream, a high end Mexican restaurant such as Javier's, Dillard's, Nordstrom, Costco
Don't hold your breath. Especially for the high quality French restaurant. Ain't gonna happen.

cbg150 06-14-2013 06:24 PM
I would love a little French Bistro! Someplace romantic for special occasions and "date nights"!

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Bogie Shooter 06-14-2013 06:33 PM
High end!:a20:

uncle518 06-14-2013 08:15 PM
Mimi's Cafe

Figment 06-14-2013 09:35 PM
A Captain D's would be nice. Fish at a reasonable price. Nice for a casual evening out. I've written to them and surprised, I got a personalized response. They hadn't considered to come this direction.
:icon_hungry:

Shimpy 06-15-2013 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by jblum315 (Post 692317)
Don't hold your breath. Especially for the high quality French restaurant. Ain't gonna happen.
You're right about that. It would be as successful as a tofu stand at a NASCAR track.

manaboutown 06-15-2013 04:46 PM
So if no Nordstroms, no Neiman's or Saks for sure. Then where can one obtain Coach, Longchamp, Faconnable, Hermes, Ferragamo, Tiffany's, Armani, Vuitton, Prada, Zanella, Zegna, Gucci, Judith Leiber, Rolex, Patek, Piaget, etc. products near The Villages?

After all, I need to purchase clothing as well as find gifts for my lady friends now and then.

sunglow 06-16-2013 07:08 AM
Trader Jose's! A coffee house with acoustic music is a great idea. A restaurant that serves really healthy delicious food. A bar that plays good alternative music:)


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