since when is a big ugly mall a town center?

[flyforfun]

Well, within 5 years it will be wall to wall tatto parlors and T-shirt shops. Parking lot will be a giant "go-cart" race track. Will start off looking like down town Atlanta and end up lick PC beach. Bahama's looking better every day!

 

[John R]

i couldn't get through part one, it was too heavy with awesome catchphrases like:

...dynamic lifestyle experience...
...Propitiously placed just across the street from Topsail State Preserve...
...immensely distinctive mixed-use center...
...premium lifestyle experience...
...sophisticated destination of this caliber...
This is more than a typical lifestyle retail center. It?s more cutting-edge...
...coveted lifestyle brands and restaurants...
...symphonious hub of construction and building... my favorite

i shudder to think of the hourly rate mr howard paid for such puffed up drivel.

 

[mf]

i couldn't get through part one, it was too heavy with awesome catchphrases like:

...dynamic lifestyle experience...
...Propitiously placed just across the street from Topsail State Preserve...
...immensely distinctive mixed-use center...
...premium lifestyle experience...
...sophisticated destination of this caliber...
This is more than a typical lifestyle retail center. It?s more cutting-edge...
...coveted lifestyle brands and restaurants...
...symphonious hub of construction and building... my favorite

i shudder to think of the hourly rate mr howard paid for such puffed up drivel.

hehehehehe!!!! that is hilarious!

sounds like the lyrics of a rap song! :clap_1:

 

[mf]

alright...i have successfully avoided doing any of my work today...i have to do *bookkeeping* today {{{{{{shuddderr}}}}}}} numbers are scary :shock:

so i'll get down off my soapbox and get to work :roll:

 

[beachmouse]

amen brotha!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!


anyhoo, people don't come to the south for chinese or italian! they want bbq, cajun and soul food!!! where are those places??? there's one in the village, but the food is not very good and when everyone working there is from eastern europe you kidn of lose the flavor....:funn:

jim and nicks i really like though and it's a good idea because it's local.

Do you know how much I'd give for truly great strip mall Chinese within a half hour of either home or work? For all the good Thai/Japanese/Korean you can find, the quality of Chinese food in this area is a really big disappointment.

There have been a lot of cajun/creole places to come and go over the years. For some reason, not many of them have long term staying power.

 

[SHELLY]

it's simply bad business. will NOT make them money and devalues the property. i can only hope that fortress investments who now owns intrawest will care enough to change the current course before any potential marketing benefits are destroyed before they just give up and dump the property.

From what I've read, Fortress "really" were after Intrawest's snow country properties. Private equity firms don't buy up businesses and make changes to please the customers...they load them up with debt, slap a bit of lipstick on the pig, suck them dry of every penny they can pillage and then toss them back as an IPO to the 'great unwashed masses.'...right Goofer?

 

[jimmyp5]

...dynamic lifestyle experience...
...Propitiously placed just across the street from Topsail State Preserve...
...immensely distinctive mixed-use center...
...premium lifestyle experience...
...sophisticated destination of this caliber...
This is more than a typical lifestyle retail center. It?s more cutting-edge...
...coveted lifestyle brands and restaurants...
...symphonious hub of construction and building... my favorite

"SHOPPING IS A FEELING."
-- David Byrne, in his film True Stories

 

[barefootguy]

Built along two miles of Emerald Coast Parkway, Grand Boulevard will ultimately have a wide and diverse array of retail and dining options ...


I think they must have meant 2 blocks. You can't stretch a 52 acre development for 2 miles.

 

[mf]

i just got this in my mailbox.
sandestin's further "panama city-fiication" of walton county

$79 A NIGHT! TO THE SAME MAILING LIST THAT RECEIVED 4 OFFERS OF $118 PER NIGHT. THE SMELL OF DESPERATION IS PALPABLE.

as for fortress, for sure, they only bough intrawest t to be in whistler for the olympics. and now once they see the rapid decline of this property they are sure to dump it as quickly as sandestin is dropping prices.

<p>
sandestin stays from $79
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a sugar-white christmas<p>
the gift of sandestin<p>
boeing championship<p>
graffiti now open
make our world your home
a gift for the heart
tell a friend to win
holiday fun for everyone
grab a spoon and go<p>

sandestin stays from $79

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[Bobby J]

I just want a giant real live wave pool Please!!!