St. Johns Town Center Thread

[Ocklawaha]

Damn the peasantry, I don't do ANYTHING at all, daddy just sends me a check!

OCKLAWAHA

[civil42806]

What's wrong with showing off our Mercedes. 

I'm not against snobs per se. Everything I do to my property I try to appeal to snob tastes, cause they got the most money and one day I hope to sell it to them for an outrageous inflated price (just like snob brands) and retire a rich man!

don't mock the Mercedes!

[Deuce]

I never mock the Mercedes! I love the Mercedes!

[Charles Hunter]

Everyone knows, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Ruehl

[Southbanker]

Always last to the party....

As a female who loves to shop...I avoid this place like the plague....there would be no amount of money that would get me to go there. I'd rather drive to Orlando or Tampa and get the same stores. Reason? Traffic and congestion. In Orlando those level of stores are spread out over several malls and town centers. Here it's all at one location so every spoiled brat kid with daddies credit card and mommies car can spend a blissful afternoon.  

Blah....I'll order my goods online or make a day trip..

This may be the craziest post I have ever read on Metro Jax.  Yes, Gate gets a little backed up (especially coming from the West).  But Orlando?  Really?  I do not think I have EVER been in Orlando without getting dead stopped on 1 of their roads due to a backup.

[nicktooch]

<points at Nicktooch>
*he* did it!   

haha wow i saw this thread jump from page 8 to 13!
lol sry to cause a fuss when i said "lost cause", i simply meant that the TC has it all wrong.  we compare it to millenia or international but phase 2 only consists of maybe 10 "high-end" stores (please let's not count them).  while we're waiting for them to fill in a space between mayor's and LV with something else actually high-end, they're putting a wing place in an alley... an alley i frequent bc of yogaberry and west elm lol. p.s.: if u drive by the proposed dick's wings there is a DW logo under coming soon.  rumors of calvin klein, tiffany's, crate&barrel, nordstroms, neimen marcus, etc. keep us hopeful that we might actually be able to compete with those other malls.  i will admit to frequent daytrips/long weekends to orlando simply bc the places at the town center are boring and overdone.  at least i can go to orlando and shop at a retail chain that hasnt penetrated jax and it's a little more satisfying than online shopping. 

i've worked at various shops at SJTC since it opened and still do while going to school, and all i can say to those that think it's packed, they must be coming on the weekend between lunch and dinner.  i usually open at a store and it's dead mon thru fri until lunchtime and after 6pm it's nomandsland on weekdays. and i work at a hotel on the pm shift and we used to use the SJTC as our calling card but lately that can't even bring in the business travelers.

so maybe i'll move away for a lil while and come back some day to see if anything has changed....

[SMoody84]

Not sure if this has been discussed on this thread or not (I didn't really read any of the other pages!)

But have there been any talks about bars (preferably nice ones) at Town Center?  I heard a rumor a while back about a Blue Martini going in, but getting turned down.  How about all of that property across the street on the lake?

Again, sorry if this has already been talked about!!

[copperfiend]

I noticed that the sign was off one of the stores at the SJTC. American Backyard. Probably hard to get people to throw down some serious cash on a fire pit in the current economic state.

[reednavy]

I noticed that the sign was off one of the stores at the SJTC. American Backyard. Probably hard to get people to throw down some serious cash on a fire pit in the current economic state.

So that's what that place was? Meh, no love lost here for sure. A place like that sounds like it needs to be located on Philips with all the other tile, brick, etc. places.

[Captain Zissou]

One really exciting thing going on at the TC is the addition of Bento, a casual Japanese restaurant.  I know this is probably not very exciting to many of you, but they have at least 3 other locations in the state and they are all Extremely popular.
It started in Gainesville and serves sushi (pretty good, maybe a step below sushi cafe), bento boxes (repetitive name yes, but good food), and rice and noodle bowls (these are the big attraction; 7 bucks for sashimi bowls it's ridiculous).  
Their second location was opened on Archer road in Gainesville and they have one in downtown Orlando  ( I just learned from their website www.bentocafesushi.com that they have a second location in Orlando as well).

They are still doing construction, but once it opens expect this place to be extremely popular.

[Ocklawaha]

Always last to the party....

As a female who loves to shop...I avoid this place like the plague....there would be no amount of money that would get me to go there. I'd rather drive to Orlando or Tampa and get the same stores. Reason? Traffic and congestion. In Orlando those level of stores are spread out over several malls and town centers. Here it's all at one location so every spoiled brat kid with daddies credit card and mommies car can spend a blissful afternoon.  

Blah....I'll order my goods online or make a day trip..

This may be the craziest post I have ever read on Metro Jax.  Yes, Gate gets a little backed up (especially coming from the West).  But Orlando?  Really?  I do not think I have EVER been in Orlando without getting dead stopped on 1 of their roads due to a backup.

Agreed! Whoever wrote this one has never experienced the joys of 5 PM on one of Orlandos TWO roads. I once spent 5 hours stuck on a freeway, no exits nearby, in Pomona, California. I never did find out what the cause was, but it really was horrible. Worse still, that stretch from Pomona to East Los Angeles, is NOT the kind of neighborhood one would go cruising through. I've never spent 5 hours on any other freeway but I-4 has come close a few times. With only two arterial roads Orlando can be worse then Los Angeles on a day to day basis.

OCKLAWAHA

[copperfiend]

One really exciting thing going on at the TC is the addition of Bento, a casual Japanese restaurant.  I know this is probably not very exciting to many of you, but they have at least 3 other locations in the state and they are all Extremely popular.
It started in Gainesville and serves sushi (pretty good, maybe a step below sushi cafe), bento boxes (repetitive name yes, but good food), and rice and noodle bowls (these are the big attraction; 7 bucks for sashimi bowls it's ridiculous).  
Their second location was opened on Archer road in Gainesville and they have one in downtown Orlando  ( I just learned from their website www.bentocafesushi.com that they have a second location in Orlando as well).

They are still doing construction, but once it opens expect this place to be extremely popular.

Where will it be located?

[Captain Zissou]

Out towards the front. Where Mocki (Mochi.... whatever that place was called) used to be.

[Overstreet]

I did not read all 13 pages. My apology if this was already discussed. Town Center is not really a  "lifestyle" center. It has no real residential component. A true lifestyle center mixes residential among the retail not around the perimeter.  A true lifestyle center puts some residential on top of the retail spaces.  A true lifestyle center puts a residential building between some of the shops. Kind of like downtown used to be.

[reednavy]

Overstreet, that conversation was beaten to death a while ago. It would've been, had Toscana come to fruition, but not so much.

Plus, "lifestyle" is an overused word that malls, new neighborhoods, etc., have worn out. Hell, it was worn out not even 2 years into the " building boom" earlier this decade.