celebration, florida
Jan 15th, 2001 | 10:43 AM
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em:
it looks like a movie set.
it is not far from WDW
scary place-nothing seemes real
i remember there was a lottery to buy the property! people were actually crying when they lost!
there is a ten year waiting list for homes and property.
why would you want to stay THERE!??
it looks like a movie set.
it is not far from WDW
scary place-nothing seemes real
i remember there was a lottery to buy the property! people were actually crying when they lost!
there is a ten year waiting list for homes and property.
why would you want to stay THERE!??
Jan 15th, 2001 | 04:46 PM
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Em, I think you deserve a little more on the topic of Celebration. It's a fascinating place, in a sort of ominous way.
The town is a planned community (adjacent to Kissimmee) which purports (or at least purported) to represent current thinking in design and community development. As I understand it (we spent only a few hours there before it creeped us out, too) the Celebration corporation itself (or private developers going by the script) developed the town, according to strict design and what I guess you'd call social engineering standards, which initially, I believe, also included running the schools and health care systems, all overseen by various university types from several colleges, including some Ivy leage ones, watching and noting... Top-named architects, like Pei or Graves, designed elements in the town, and all the neighborhoods were crafted to look like traditional "American" environments, be it Smallville or Beacon Hill. But underneath the faux antiquity were fiber optic cables and T-1 connections to your kitchen and school board meetings on closed circuit TV, etc., all aimed at creating an "ideal community," 21st century-style. The Disney company was the mover behind the Celebration town/corporation, and our personal (not-far-off-the-mark?) assessment of the marketing idea was, "You've visited Main Street at Disney World...now live there!"
I understand things have not gone entirely to script regarding the social success of the town (damn pesky humans) but I gather that there is still demand for the product. It's weird, though, driving down the road past the picket fence lining the town drive toward the State highway, ending at the crossroads where strip-mall Florida begins again, without benefit of the spiffy systems engineering or immaculate vacuumed-looking streets.
The marketing material we picked up had lots of pictures of smiling children with balloons and rolling hoops, but none of the faces were of color. Like I said, creepy.
The town is a planned community (adjacent to Kissimmee) which purports (or at least purported) to represent current thinking in design and community development. As I understand it (we spent only a few hours there before it creeped us out, too) the Celebration corporation itself (or private developers going by the script) developed the town, according to strict design and what I guess you'd call social engineering standards, which initially, I believe, also included running the schools and health care systems, all overseen by various university types from several colleges, including some Ivy leage ones, watching and noting... Top-named architects, like Pei or Graves, designed elements in the town, and all the neighborhoods were crafted to look like traditional "American" environments, be it Smallville or Beacon Hill. But underneath the faux antiquity were fiber optic cables and T-1 connections to your kitchen and school board meetings on closed circuit TV, etc., all aimed at creating an "ideal community," 21st century-style. The Disney company was the mover behind the Celebration town/corporation, and our personal (not-far-off-the-mark?) assessment of the marketing idea was, "You've visited Main Street at Disney World...now live there!"
I understand things have not gone entirely to script regarding the social success of the town (damn pesky humans) but I gather that there is still demand for the product. It's weird, though, driving down the road past the picket fence lining the town drive toward the State highway, ending at the crossroads where strip-mall Florida begins again, without benefit of the spiffy systems engineering or immaculate vacuumed-looking streets.
The marketing material we picked up had lots of pictures of smiling children with balloons and rolling hoops, but none of the faces were of color. Like I said, creepy.
Jan 15th, 2001 | 05:02 PM
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We have stopped by the Post Office there - last August - they had lemonade and cookies in the lobby. Shops & restaurants, movie theatre, Celebration Health - smalll hospital, & a hotel / convention center was going up. Article then in the Orlando Sentinel talked about how business owners in Celebration were disappointed by underwhelming revenues. Very quiet to walk around in.
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Jan 15th, 2001 | 07:27 PM
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Thanks to all the people who responded.
We previously visited Seaside Fla -another planned community/truman show-
& really liked it, even though it was very artifical. THough we might take a look at another similiar place. My husband & I love architecture of most sorts & he hates Disney world so I thought he could hang out there. Not really thinking of moving in though!
We previously visited Seaside Fla -another planned community/truman show-
& really liked it, even though it was very artifical. THough we might take a look at another similiar place. My husband & I love architecture of most sorts & he hates Disney world so I thought he could hang out there. Not really thinking of moving in though!
