I don't know about you but I'm always looking for new and interesting ideas for lots in my town, Let's share ideas and make a list Basically just say any kind of lot you can think of

Community Lots
Zoo
Tennis Courts
Soccer Field
Baseball Diamond
Butterfly Gardens
Kung Fu Dojo
Furniture Store
History Museum
Electronics Store
Playground
Community Garden
Bar/Club
Football Field
Cafe
Chess... Place
Art School
Music Hall/Stadium
Gas Station
Fish Hatchery
Campsite
Ruins
Orchard
Airport
Rec center
Fast Food
Monument
Abandoned lot
Hotel/motel
Brothel
Prison
Warehouse
Auto repair garage
Car dealership
Fountain
Nature preserve
Docks
Mine
Junkyard
Church
Plaza
Bus stop
Takeout
Parking
Shops
Chinese garden
Nectary/liquor store
Fire station
Parking lot
City Dump
Flower Shop
Cooking School
Aquarium
Skating Rink
Antique Shop
Paintball park
Strip Club
Night Club
Video Store
MegaMart (aka Walmart)
Ethnic restaurants
Community college
Foo foo shop
Art gallery/store
Auto parts store
Clothing store
Real Estate Office
Hardware Store
bathhouse

Residential Lots
Trailer Park
Military Housing
Apartment/Loft
Orphanage
College Dorms
Legacy Lot
Haunted House
Retirement Village

Required Lots
Library
Gym
Art Gallery
Salon- Ambitions
Firehouse- Ambitions


They don't need to be functional lots, just anything you can think of that can provide a nice touch to the town I plan to make this a better organized list in the future

Oh, I made a huge list of these!

Campsite
Ruins
Orchard
Airport
Rec center
Fast Food
Monument
Abandoned lot
Hotel/motel
Brothel
Orphanage
Prison
Warehouse
Auto repair garage
Car dealership
Fountain
Nature preserve
Docks
Mine
Junkyard
Church
Plaza
Bus stop
Takeout
Parking
Shops
Chinese garden
Nectary/liquor store
Fire station
Parking lot

Those are all great ideas!

I was actually going to make a car dealership before, but couldnt find community lot cars. I've yet to see if changing a res lot to community with awesomemod's "dont remove crap" function will work. I have a suspicion sims would be able to steal the cars.

Can sms wohoo on community lots? If so, I'm totally gonna build a brothel.

ooh those are very helpful!
I think I'm going to build a butterfly garden

I so deeply miss all our cool TS2 objects though
I'm especially missing apartment life today because of the architecture... that should have been one of the first even for TS2... *sigh*

Yeah.... Especially with HELS out........

I'm pretty sure they can. I think you can even make them do it in City Hall. I don't remember exactly how. I think you right click on City Hall.

Paintball park
Strip Club
Night Club
Flower Shop (get your sweetie flowers after spending all night at the strip club!)
Video Store
MegaMart (aka Walmart)
Ethnic restaurants
Community college
Foo foo shop
Art gallery/store
Auto parts store -- especially if we ever get the rebuildable car again.
Clothing store -- especially if sims have to buy their clothes again.
Real Estate Office
Hardware Store

Just drive down the main street of your town and see what businesses are there. Plus, anything from the buy or build menu really should have a corresponding store.

Ooooo Sticky! I was very sad when this thread withered and died because I thought it had a lot of potential!
*Updating thread now*

How about with WA, you can make a campsite for your Sims to live in?

For very small towns, instead of a school rabbithole you can have a "library" lot that functions as a school/kindergarden/youth center. I'm working on one like this right now. I'm planning four major rooms: a study room with desks (for homework), a reading room, a play room for toddlers (the "kindergarden") and an arts room.

You can also make a gas station by placing lots of parking areas on a lot, put a bathroom and a diner next to it, and make it a rest stop.

I might make a science museum with all the collectibles: geology room, astronomy room, entomology room and a little botanical garden with a pond.

I saw a motel for download somewhere. Since you can put beds on community lots, there's no reason not to, except I can't think of a way to enforce payment. It would also provide a place for sims with commitment issues to hide their cheating ways. You can't always be taking your mistresses to WooHoo in the judge's chambers in City Hall, it's very unsanitary, and the judge might not be thrilled.

I'm also thinking of making a park near the beach where teens can... park. The sad absence of car WooHoo makes this less functional, but it's a good place for teen sims to take their dates, and the parking rows add atmosphere.

lifeisforliving, you're not in any position to tell other people what to do with their games.

Blame HP! XD

I definitely want to organize this better, if you have any ideas related to LN (or Ambitions since we sort of missed that...) then please shout them out!

I wish my sims could play pool, go bowling, and I really want an amusement park with a roller coaster and a ferris wheel and bottle smashing games.

Don't forget:

Private Eye Office
Factory
Child Labor Mills (for a non-modern neighborhood)
Airship :D
Observatory
Radio Station

Uhm... Pet store.? with kittens and puppies and parrots? )

It would be hard without a pets Ep...

Arcade
Boutique
Military Air Base (with use of Morphead's Manta Ray)(you would need an excessively large lot though)

These are great ideas thankyou, I will now try to make something!!!

All of the community lots I could've thought of are already listed, but I did come up with some residential lot ideas.
- Fairies' home (like a tucked away cottage with lots of flowers and a medieval feel)
- Vampires' home (with coffins, skeletons, etc.)
- Inventor's house (with SimBots, work benches, etc.)
- Alien home
- Haunted house (with lots of ghosts)
- Witches' house

Here for some fantasy locations for those bulding fantasy worlds ^^

Happy jappy/pinky bubblegum-ish worlds:
candy park
food stores with candy floss pavilion
"pink" place
sunny beach

Alice in wonderland-ish worlds:
"huge plants path"
Complicated Mazes
Tea Palace
Overdimentioned castles with a three story throne room and huge windows
"Crazy house"

Dark, foggy vampire worlds:
Big graveyard
Several tombs with intricate vampire/family stories to follow
Gypsy caravan/hut
Mauloseum lots for the biggest families
Vampire clubs/bars or "dark hangouts"

With the addition of resorts from IP I'm going to be creating a bed and breakfast that will be functional.

A nice idea I guess is creating an elevated train line like this:

I like all the ideas!
I might make Sunset Valley AMAZING!!!!

Wow! You guys sure have a ton of great IDEAS!!