How many of you have turned Magnolia Promenade into residential

I've never made it completely residential, but I've considered it. I've put a house or two on some of the lots in some of my saves, though. Not sure if I have screenshots of them. If I find any I'll add them later, but I should probably note that I don't necessarily match my sim's homes to the other existing buildings in the current area. I like my neighborhoods to be more eclectic than that.

Back in the day before Vampires, I had two main saves: one where I was filling out Newcrest and the other with my first family that I moved into the empty lot of Magnolia Promenade. In those limited world days, Magnolia Promenade felt especially personal and private so I liked using it for my main family. I didn't remove the retail lots, though. After Vampires Midnight Hollow became my favorite private world.

Just from my quick musings, I suspect Eco themed stuff could look good. While I like the idea of stuff that matches the Paranormal stuff pack for the scenery, with the retail lots it feels more urban. If you plan to keep retail, suburban style. If you don't, Paranormal SP style.

I made it a shopping district in my game, shops on ground floor and apartments on upper floors. The apartments are for the shop owners or for random sims that are in the area and need to spend the night there.

I use MP as my administrative quarter including only community lots. Council House is there, the bank and a popular culture arena with rentable studios etc named Fun Factory. There's also a hotel providing restaurant and conference facilities (for story telling). The only remaining retail is the popular "Heisserclump Bakery", and of course "Jespers Jewelry Broker" where the nobility get their tiaras and other bling, but as a corner of the hotel, which is tagged restaurant, the jeweler is just for story telling, too.

So, no, not residential lots. But that doesn't stop me from having a household living in MP. Technically their house is in another world, I just pretend they reign the MP hood :) I really wish EA would open up a couple more lots in this tiny hood - I'd grab them in a second!

I put in apartments.

"VeeDub;c-17990140" wrote:
I've never made it completely residential, but I've considered it. I've put a house or two on some of the lots in some of my saves, though. Not sure if I have screenshots of them. If I find any I'll add them later, but I should probably note that I don't necessarily match my sim's homes to the other existing buildings in the current area. I like my neighborhoods to be more eclectic than that.

I get your point. It happens in my game too.
No matter what kind of buildings I have put in this world, when my Sims visit that neighborhood, I can only see the shopping centers defaulted, not my buildings

It wasn't that great for a residential area back when it was first released. I made three of the four lots into residential and built a different shop on one. The problems with it were it was too isolated. There were hardly any Sims out and about like in WC. And when they did show up they took the long walk through the neighborhood past the big common area, non editable park, so I would see some of my own Sims (played rotational) needing to pee, dirty and stinky because there were no public bathrooms in the area. It was pretty boring as a residential area other than seeing a Sim or two in distress but of course they didn't die so, other areas of the worlds are more interesting in my opinion. I had Sims in every district in all the worlds that were livable at the time. There weren't even any fake cars that went by like in other worlds. Unless they have updated that world it's coding is pretty much zilch. Sorry, I probably don't have those saves, but might be one lot on the gallery I may have uploaded. No pics in this pc.

"Arca;c-17990192" wrote:

"VeeDub;c-17990140" wrote:
I've never made it completely residential, but I've considered it. I've put a house or two on some of the lots in some of my saves, though. Not sure if I have screenshots of them. If I find any I'll add them later, but I should probably note that I don't necessarily match my sim's homes to the other existing buildings in the current area. I like my neighborhoods to be more eclectic than that.

I get your point. It happens in my game too.
No matter what kind of buildings I have put in this world, when my Sims visit that neighborhood, I can only see the shopping centers defaulted, not my buildings

Oh, I think you may have misunderstood me. What I meant was that I have occasionally put residential houses on some of the lots (in some saves, not all) but I've never made Magnolia Promenade into a completely residential neighborhood in any of those saves. I've had no problems seeing the lots I placed there; I was just saying that they don't necessarily "match" the style of any of the pre-made buildings that were already there or those that exist as background (unusable buildings/locations) only.

I’m in the process of replacing all the lots cause I don’t really see a purpose for the retail lots, my sims never visit them. I was hoping to keep it more on the side of being a community space though, I have more than enough residential lots throughout all the other worlds.

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