Chloe at Home ~ living in a "lifestyle center"

While I wait for my new condominium to close and the all the rehab to happen, I am living in a little apartment in this interesting place. My husband calls it a “made up village”. From the research I have done, this is considered a “lifestyle center”. Since I consider my blog a ‘lifestyle blog’, then I thought it was right that I would share this with you. We live above Abercrombie (no we don’t smell it). This is one of those new developments which has retail on the first floor and residential space or office space built upstairs. I am a fan of these kind of developments. To me, this is how our cities and towns used to be, with families owning a shop or business downstairs and living upstairs. I think this makes quite a bit of sense. I love being able to walk to the grocery store, the book store, movie theater and to nearly a dozen restaurants.

Unfortunately in this center there are only a few condominiums available, and all of them are too large, or have too many stairs for people like us who travel with luggage so often. My husband is also dreaming of a view, so that is where we will be headed, (and wait until I show you the view we are going to have). I am enjoying my time here, but I will enjoy moving on. Living in our little apartment is fine, but this is living in the middle of a shopping center, so it can be loud. I gave a little tour of our apartment a few weeks ago here.

One of the most wonderful things about living here is this huge staff that maintains all the beautiful grounds and flowers. There are water fountains, flower beds, hundreds of containers of flowers, lawns, a splash zone, a giant chess set, rows of tables with chess boards and pieces, comfortable furniture, tables with umbrellas and more and more. There are concerts and movies in our park on the weekends and a great farmer’s market once a week.