After creating houses and families I figured it was about time to give them somewhere to shop and dine, just like in Hot Date. So I created the lot I used most, Landgraab Mall!
And turned it into this:
You will definitely need Get to Work and Dine Out for this to run. I tried to stay in within Base Game items otherwise. The fountain at the front of the lot is from the Get Together expansion, otherwise, any other fountain will do.
I ended up doing the restaurant in blue, because Sims 4 doesn't have the red/white as it did previously to create a 50s diner....but the theme is the same.
I actually chucked a sim in the game and purchased the lot so was able to dress the mannequins, hire a chef and barista while my sim ran the retail (as well as testing the lot itself for playability). You may want two family members doing retail as there are 2 registers....one in the toy store and one in the clothing store! hehe
The lot contains 2 bathrooms (1 indoor and 1 outdoor), restaurant with jukebox, toy store, flower shop, clothing store, park with kids amusements, chess tables, benches, and BBQ areas so it actually ended up being an all-in-one lot. The original lot would only fit on a weird size so I put it on a larger one and added the park for chuckles.
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The only thing I don't have is old lady Crumplebottom running around griping at everyone! LOL
I used a lot of move objects, and object sizing in this but after a couple test runs everything stayed put, even the outfits on the mannequins! Quite the surpise there!
I did set the sellable items all over the lot so no worries there. I also left it at the default 25% markup.
Lots of fun creating this and learning how retail in Get to Work works at the same time. Major learning curve.
Have fun with it!!
PS- After buying and reselling the lot a couple of times, I found the price dropped from the original $160 000 to anywhere between $45 and $50 000. You may end up with a cheaper lot
Lot Size: 50x50
Lot Price (furnished): 160000
Lot Price (unfurnished): 37000
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