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.
In addition to Mission Bay, another community that seems to have tried to incorporate swimming into its DNA is Mission Viejo.
To attract young families to the end of the road in Saddleback Valley, the Mission Viejo Co. designed its master-planned community around sports and recreation. The epitome of the endeavor was the Marguerite Aquatics Center and its tenant, the Mission Viejo Nadadores swimming and diving club.
The first families moved into MV in 1966, amid construction of the Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course, dubbed Mission Impossible – and two years before the formation, in 1968, of the Mission Viejo Nadadores. The developer, the Mission Viejo Co., supported the Nadadores financially as part of the company’s marketing efforts, and it wasn't until 1992 that the developer transferred MVN ownership to today’s nonprofit foundation.
As Skip noted, local communities have to reach pretty far to support a world-class facility, as even MV is finding:
www.ocregister.com/.../city-656388-nadadores-center.html
In addition to Mission Bay, another community that seems to have tried to incorporate swimming into its DNA is Mission Viejo.
To attract young families to the end of the road in Saddleback Valley, the Mission Viejo Co. designed its master-planned community around sports and recreation. The epitome of the endeavor was the Marguerite Aquatics Center and its tenant, the Mission Viejo Nadadores swimming and diving club.
The first families moved into MV in 1966, amid construction of the Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course, dubbed Mission Impossible – and two years before the formation, in 1968, of the Mission Viejo Nadadores. The developer, the Mission Viejo Co., supported the Nadadores financially as part of the company’s marketing efforts, and it wasn't until 1992 that the developer transferred MVN ownership to today’s nonprofit foundation.
As Skip noted, local communities have to reach pretty far to support a world-class facility, as even MV is finding:
www.ocregister.com/.../city-656388-nadadores-center.html
