Thornton Park

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Lisa says, "Hey, what's up from Winter Garden?" Chat checking in from Thornton Park.

Represent downtown.

John checking in from Scotland.

in the grand scheme of it.

The Publix over in South Eola, Thornton Park-

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... that was incentivized by the city to come in downtown.

That's awesome.

Forever and ever and ever opens at 8 p.m. in Thornton Park and stays open for a month.

Right now we don't have a price for admission.

I think it's open.

There's a cat that sometimes is just hanging out there.

Or a park.

Where's it at? Thornton Park? Thornton Park.

Yeah, it's right across the street from where Dexter's used to be, basically.

So it's so funny, like going back and seeing like the full circle of it all.

But one day I was scrolling through an Instagram and I saw that there was a spot open in like Thornton Park area.

And I was like, oh, like it was one of those beautiful like Victorian houses.

And I was like, wow, like this would be such a cool spot for a bookstore.

I feel, funny enough, it's those more established areas that don't have the new construction that are doing the best.

So the Winter Parks, the Thornton Park, College Park.

Yeah.

Those are areas that you're seeing a lot of more established communities doing way better, whereas the new construction boom, the Claremonts, the Horizon Wests, the lake known as the St. Clouds, those are getting crushed.

So I had heard from multiple people that were here 20 years ago that said 20 years ago, they were focusing so much on the central business district with the Kia and also the Dr. Phillips Center that they neglected the neighborhoods.

And so everybody was talking about, you're neglecting the neighborhoods.

Why aren't you spending more on Mills and Thornton Park? And so they spent so much time developing that that all of a sudden the CBD became...

That narrative is