As an owner, I hope they begin construction of the third tower. There were amenities that I really wanted to see go in. I understood from day one that there was the possiblity that only the first tower would be built and was happy when I saw them begin the second tower. The third tower is important to me, as is expanding the Marketplace, the additional pool deck, expanding the fitness center and I'd still love to see the lobby bar open.
I've read/heard to many announcements/rumors to get to excited until they actually break ground on the third tower. I'll remain hopefull but skeptical. The reasons for them not to build tower 3 outweigh the reasons to build tower 3 in my mind.
Fortunately, being satisfied with our ownership at MGC was not predicated on the completion of the tower 3 pool deck. I understand it will never have anything resembling a great pool scene. We realized that from the start. We became owners there because we loved the room layout and, the lock-off of the 3 bedroom unit was a full 2 bedroom and a full 1 bedroom, giving us a little more latitude with placing exchange requests vs having only a studio where we would have to do manual online searches daily to get a 1 bedroom unit at the resorts we were interested for exchanges.
To the end that it might increase desirablity for exchangers who do value a larger pool, I'm all for it. In the end though, it would be nice but really doesn't matter all that much to me. I suppose the fact that additional inventory could actually hurt our internal exchange value could be a drawback. Especially since we've exchange both halves of our unit for the last 3 or 4 years.
