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Two cheers for San Marco: lakewood Ranch's new commercial center is graceful and attractive--but where's the place to relax and enjoy it?(ARCHITECTURE)

PERHAPS IT WAS INEVITABLE that the new Plaza San Marco at Lake-wood Ranch would fail to live up to its name. Even if the word "piazza" is not used, there is no way most of us wouldn't call up memories of the glories of Piazza San Marco, the great outdoor living room at the center of Venice, when we see the new commercial center that's springing to life on the curving boulevard connecting the commercial center along University Parkway with the Main Street shopping and entertainment zone. (Once you get through that baffling traffic circle thing, that is.)

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To say that this iteration of the original San Marco concept does not measure up to that ...

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