I have had the idea of a retirement community centered around a 50 meter pool. There would be condos, apartments, houses and mobile homes available all very close or on the ocean for OW swimming. The Villages near Orlando just seems too big and spread out and not close enough to the ocean.
I have had the idea of a retirement community centered around a 50 meter pool. There would be condos, apartments, houses and mobile homes available all very close or on the ocean for OW swimming. The Villages near Orlando just seems too big and spread out and not close enough to the ocean.
There was an attempt to build a swimming community that included a retirement community about 30 years ago and it was a success for about 6 years until folded. It had two 50 meter pools plus two 25 meter/25 yard pools and one of those could be used as an instructional pool. It also had a separate diving well as big as the major NCAA Division I programs have and it had diving towers as well as boards. It was set up to be the ideal swimming community for families and retires.
This complex was called Mission Bay and it was arguably the greatest outdoor facility in the world at that time and I would say that would be true back then. This was before Stanford, Irvine, Rose Bowl, and others who today could maybe equal but not surpass this aquatic complex. I remember the first time I visited there and I just turned 35 and it was the winter of 1987. I was shown the different homes in the subdivision and was told they were marketing to not only families but retirees that want to include swimming in their lives. They had just started a masters program and the two coaches they had at the time were age group coaches and they were from Michigan and I knew them in the late 1960's and early 1970's. There names were Phil Bradford and Larry Liebowitz and they were filling in until they hired a masters coach and by the beginning of the year Judy Meyer was hired from Univ. of Alabama, where she was coaching a masters team.
The facility was fantastic and they hired some of the best coaches in the country to coached the Mission Bay USA Swimming team. USMS had there 1989 Short Course Nationals at this facility and it was just a great place. I always wondered how they could maintain upkeep because the operation facility costs seemed to be more than what member families and teams would bring in as revenue and this would include meets. This place was the site of many national swimming and diving championships. In the early 1990's the place went bankrupt and James Brady, who was the money man that got this off the ground went into bankruptcy and some Tennis Professionals bought it and they went bankrupt.
They ended up filling the pools making tennis courts over them. Today it has changed hands and its still operating but a lot differently. Many of you out there swam at this facility either as an age grouper, college swimmer or masters swimmer. I have provided two links and one is of the past and one is what is going on today. When I saw this thread, this facility immediately came to mine especially with people wanting a 50 meter pool.
articles.sun-sentinel.com/.../mission-bayhttp://mission-bay.com/
I have had the idea of a retirement community centered around a 50 meter pool. There would be condos, apartments, houses and mobile homes available all very close or on the ocean for OW swimming. The Villages near Orlando just seems too big and spread out and not close enough to the ocean.
There was an attempt to build a swimming community that included a retirement community about 30 years ago and it was a success for about 6 years until folded. It had two 50 meter pools plus two 25 meter/25 yard pools and one of those could be used as an instructional pool. It also had a separate diving well as big as the major NCAA Division I programs have and it had diving towers as well as boards. It was set up to be the ideal swimming community for families and retires.
This complex was called Mission Bay and it was arguably the greatest outdoor facility in the world at that time and I would say that would be true back then. This was before Stanford, Irvine, Rose Bowl, and others who today could maybe equal but not surpass this aquatic complex. I remember the first time I visited there and I just turned 35 and it was the winter of 1987. I was shown the different homes in the subdivision and was told they were marketing to not only families but retirees that want to include swimming in their lives. They had just started a masters program and the two coaches they had at the time were age group coaches and they were from Michigan and I knew them in the late 1960's and early 1970's. There names were Phil Bradford and Larry Liebowitz and they were filling in until they hired a masters coach and by the beginning of the year Judy Meyer was hired from Univ. of Alabama, where she was coaching a masters team.
The facility was fantastic and they hired some of the best coaches in the country to coached the Mission Bay USA Swimming team. USMS had there 1989 Short Course Nationals at this facility and it was just a great place. I always wondered how they could maintain upkeep because the operation facility costs seemed to be more than what member families and teams would bring in as revenue and this would include meets. This place was the site of many national swimming and diving championships. In the early 1990's the place went bankrupt and James Brady, who was the money man that got this off the ground went into bankruptcy and some Tennis Professionals bought it and they went bankrupt.
They ended up filling the pools making tennis courts over them. Today it has changed hands and its still operating but a lot differently. Many of you out there swam at this facility either as an age grouper, college swimmer or masters swimmer. I have provided two links and one is of the past and one is what is going on today. When I saw this thread, this facility immediately came to mine especially with people wanting a 50 meter pool.
articles.sun-sentinel.com/.../mission-bayhttp://mission-bay.com/
