By the way, the natural vegetation which buffers Redfish Village from 30A is required to be preservation by the Walton County Comp Plan, and fortunately, unlike some other developers, they did follow the rules and keep the vegetation as required. I can give you examples of other property developers which decided to violate the County rules, and clear cut the entire property. If anything, we should support the developers who play by the rules.
I am glad that we don't have to look at big parking lots when driving through such a cool place as Blue Mtn Beach.
Redfish Village will survive, and businesses will eventually go in there and I'm sure the residential condos will one day be filled. They, like so many developments, completed the buildout at the peak of the market, so it is no surprise that they have been stuck in this transition period -- most everyone was caught in it. We are seeing lot sales in the development to it's north, which connects into Redfish Village to access the merchants, and that will be a good centralized location in the future, when the commercial and residential units are filled.
Great post Murray! You are dead on. We will all survive and be better of as well!