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...

Gun store
Magic store
clearing in the woods (for naked moon worship)
caves
gypsy camp
tree houses
old tavern
mechanics
garden centre
farmland
big metal structures like the eiffel tower or statue of liberty
casino
circus
roman baths
cathedral
temple
spaceships
recreated rabbitholes
forest

OK, so here is my final (for now) list, there is over 250:

airport
animal shelter
antique shop
apartment block
aquarium
archery
architect's office
art gallery
assasins
Avante Garde modeling Venue
bakery
bank
bar
barn
baseball
basketball
beach shacks
betting agency
big park
boarding school
boat
bookstore
boolean properties
bowling alley
Bridal store
brothel
bus stop
butterfly garden
cafe
campsite
candy store
car dealership
car racetrack
casino
cathedral
catwalk
caves
charity shop
chemist/pharmacist
chinese garden
chop shop
church
cinema
circus
city dump
city hall
cleaning agency (maids & butlers)
Clearing in the woods
clinic
clothing store
community colleges
consignment store
construction site
corner shop
corporate tower
costume shop
courtroom
crash site
creshe
criminal hangout
cruise liner
crypt
dairy farm
dam
dance studio
dive bar
docks/harbour
dog training classes
dorms
electronics store
Entertainment agency (think clowns, flamingogo dancers, fire dancers, entertainers, magician's assistants etc)
equestrian center
ethnic restaurants
factory
Family doctors practice
farmland
fast food
Father time & Toddler New Year's cave
fire station
fishing spot
flooded homes
flower shop
football
Forensics lab (CSI)
forest
fortune tellers
furniture store
furry's house (like that episode of CSI, where people would dress up as animals and rub up against each other, social bunny, marky sharky
and the mascots would live there)
garden centre
gas station
Gay Bar
gentleman's club
ghost hunter's abode
Girls only bar (aka lesbian bar)
golf green
government intelligence building
graveyard
greenhouse
grim reapers manor
grocery store
Gun Store
gym
gypsy camp
Halfway house
hard ware store
haunted house
hippie commune
homeless shelter
Hospital
hotel
hunting lodge
internet cafe
jewelers
journalism office
juice bar
junkyard
kennels
Kids' 'Den'
lake house
laundromat
library
lighthouse
liquor store
lounge
Mad scientist lab (complete with ghost/vampire/zombie/robot/plantsim/mummy/imaginary friend/alien/grim reaper etc. Chained up in the basement
Magic Store
Magician's
market
martial arts studio
mausaleum
mayor's office/president
mechanics/garage
megamart
metal structures
meteor site
military base
military housing
mine
modeling agency
monument
morgue
motel
museum
music store
mythological beast's cabin (Think Yeti, bigfoot, werewolf)
Nanny agency
NASA (where rockets are launched from)
night club
nursery
observatory
Opticians
orchard
orphanage
paintball park
palyground
Pandora's box (house of sin)
parking structure
penthouse
pet hotel
pet park
pet salon
pet store
photography studio
picnic spot
pirate ship
planetarium
plaza
plummer/repairman's office
police station
pool
Post office/mail room
power station
prank store
prison
private eye office
psychiatric hospital
Publishing agency
rabbitholes
race track
radio station
ranch
rave site
real estates office
rec centre
recording studio
recycling center
red light district
rehab
reservoir
Retirement home
roman baths
romantic makeout spot
ruins
S& M club (lady Heather's)
salon
saloon
Santa's house
school
science facility
scouts/guides
secret society lots
seedy motels
shoe store
shooting range
skating rink
ski lodge
skyscraper
small park
soccer
social services/adoption agency
spa
spaceships
stables
stadium
stock market
strip club
student union
stylist's office
surf shop
swamp
sweat lodge
takeout
tattoo parlour
tavern
tea rooms
Television studio
temple
tennis court
textiles mill
theatre
theme park
toy store
trailer park
train station
travel agency
tree houses
TV & movie sets
underground dance scene
unemployment agency
university campus' x3
vampire hotel
vets
video store
vinyard
wedding planner
wedding venue
winter wonderland
yoga studio
youth centre
youth hostel
zoo

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: