They won't open until 2020, but a “topping off” ceremony was recently held for the Center for Advanced Healthcare at Brownwood and the Brownwood Hotel & Spa.
The topping off ceremony marks the end of the structural framework for the two facilities and we should see quick progress throughout 2019.
In other news…
Hopefully the fourth time's the charm. The owner of several successful restaurants in The Villages including a handful of the country club restaurants, Scooples Ice Cream Parlor, and the recently opened Bluefin Grill & Bar in Brownwood is planning to open a restaurant called Chop House in the same space at Lake Sumter Landing that previously housed TGI Friday's, Honest John's Whiskey and Provisions, and the recently shuttered Guy Fieri's American Kitchen and Bar. [Villages-News]
Where'd you learn to drive like that?!?! Villages-News recently shared this car and cart dashcam footage showing some near misses and examples of bad driving around The Villages: