Community Lot List

[celebkiriedhel]

Career Lots (career - lot ideas):
Adventurer - mines, caves, rivers
Advertisng - ad agency
Archaeology - dig site, museum
Architect - architecture firm, construction site
Artist - gallery
Astronomy - observatory
Athletic - stadium
Auto Mechanic - automotive repair shop/garage
Banking/Investments - bank, savings and loan office
Business - corporate offices
Construction - construction site
Counseling Psychology - counseling/psychology rooms, hospital
Criminal - gang hangout
CSI - crime lab
Dance - dance studio
Education - school
Entertainment - film studio, TV studio
Factory Worker - factory
Fashion Design - fashion studio, modeling agency
Figure Skater - ice rink
Fire Service - fire station
Forensics - crime lab
Game Development - software studio
Grocery - grocery store, supermarket
Hospitality - hotel, event venue
Intelligence - SCIA/intelligence agency
Journalism - newspaper office, newsroom, TV studio
Law - law firm, court room
Law Enforcement - police station
Librarian - library
Medicine - hospital, GP's office
Meteorology - TV studio
Military - army base
Modeling - fashion studio, modeling agency
Music - recording studio
Natural Science - aquarium, museum
News - TV studio
Oceanography - aquarium, museum
Paleontology - dig site, museum
Photography - photography studio, gallery
Politics - town/city hall
Postal Service - post office
Realtor - real estate office
Science - aquarium, laboratory, museum
Show Business - film studio, TV studio
Social Worker - hospital, social services
Taxi Driving - taxi company office
Textiles - factory
Tourism - tourist centre
Travel - travel agency
Veterinarian - vet surgery


Educational/cultural lots:
aquarium
art gallery
daycare centre
fashion studio
film studio
library
museum
photography studio
recording studio
schools - primary school, high school, music school, culinary school, art school, ballet school


Entertainment:
amusement park
bandshell
casino
circus
venues - opera house, rock concert venue, concert hall, cinema, theatre
video arcade


Event venues:
Church/chapel/cathedral
function hall/function centre
Vegas-style wedding chapel


Finance:
auction house
bank
real estate agency


Fitness/sports:
dojo
equestrian centre
ice rink
gym
roller rink
soccer field
stadium
swimming pool - indoor, outdoor
yoga studio


Government:
army base
city hall/town hall
fire station
gaol/prison/juvenile detention centre
police station
adoption agency
jobs agency/career services


Great outdoors:
beach lots - surf school, campground, state park with educational exhibits, surf fishing area, boardwalk
cemetery
fish hatchery
parks - large park, small park, abandoned/run-down park, community garden, fishing pond, playground, sculpture garden, botanical gardens, skateboard/bike park
summer camp
town square


Medical:
asylum
counselling/psychology rooms
free clinic
hospital
GP's office
plastic surgery clinic


NIMBY (not in my backyard - many sims might not want to live near these places but poorer sims may not have the choice):
alleyway
fortune teller
gas/service/petrol station
junkyard
homeless shelter/social services/AA meeting place
House of Ill Repute (make of that what you will)
laundromat
power plant
shipping yard
storage yard
tattoo parlour


Pampering:
beauty salon
spa/sauna


Paranormal lots: 
Underground plasma bar (vampires)
Werewolf grooming service
Witch Doctor's office
Witch's Lair


Retail:
market place
shops (stand-alone or as part of a larger mall/shopping centre) - 
antiques
art supplies
baby stuff
bakery
bikes
books
bridal
car dealership/used car lot
clothing
electronics
farmer's market
fish market
florist
furniture
groceries
hardware
lingerie
liquor
music
newsagency/card shop
occult
perfumery
pets
second-hand
tobacco
toys
video games


Socialising: 
bars - dive bar, underground bar, Irish pub, gay/lesbian bar, wine bar, karaoke bar, sports bar, beach bar, medieval theme
clubs - nightclub, jazz club, disco, dance club, retro club
eateries - fancy restaurant, tea room (high tea, Moroccan), bistro, Chinese, pancakes, coffee shop, Mexican, sushi bar, beatnik cafe, outdoor cafe, Indian, diner, cyber cafe, ice cream/pastry shop, 50s diner, seafood, pizzeria, chocolaterie
make-out point (like Inspiration Point on Happy Days)
youth centre/teen hangout


Travel and attractions:
Airport
Campsite
Bus station
Hotels - hostel, upscale resort, cheap motel
Lighthouse
Souvenir shop
Taxi company office
Tourist centre
Train station

Travel agency
Winery (they are nectaries in TS3, maybe juiceries in TS2, seeing Sims get juice from the bars)
Zoo

[maxon]

Nice list - I had thought of the following:

Sweet shop (old fashioned sweet shop with everything in jars) - do you call them candy stores? We had this type of shop in the village where I grew up called The Don (I think the original owner was Spanish or Italian) but they were also a tobacconist - sweets crammed beside the boxes of cigars and cigarettes. These days it would be a newsagents with cigarettes plus some sweets. Nothing like the rows and rows of toffees and boiled sweets and the little bags you could buy for sixpence or so with a variety of sweets. Of course, instead of a tobacconist these days you might have a vape shop.

I'd thought of an antiques shop - that's always pretty easy to do but can look really nice.

That list seems to be missing a jewellers shop which here would also probably sell clocks (and watches which are between the two).

It's also missing a sewage plant - don't laugh, I know someone who built a very convincing (residential) sewage plant. I think it was for Vidcund Curious to escape to.

I see that list mentions airport. I like building travel stuff* and have built several garages (petrol stations), train stations and bus stations but not an airport. One of my favourite hacks for TS1 was an object hack that allowed you to place a travel desk on a community lot which you could click on with a visiting sim and it would allow you to send them off on holiday (vacation). I made a very fancy airport lot with lots of little shops in it (a bikini lot from ATS I seem to remember and a duty free), a big balcony section and several of these travel desk hacks plus, a really nice touch I thought, a small sound hack that played an aircraft taking off noise every so often by the departure doors at the back of the lot.

*I think if I were a man, I'd probably be into train sets or something.

[celebkiriedhel]

I have built an airport previously for the vacation challenge that I started but failed to complete. I thought it was pretty cool, but I tried to do it without CC, and that made it difficult.
It would be so cool to do that again, but properly! I wonder if we could make some sort of hack to simulate going on vacation?

I'm in Australia, and we don't do candy - we do sweet shops - primarily chocolatiers that are independent, and Darrell Lea's who do the whole rigmarole. I'd love to make a Darrell Lea's!

I've got a deco Sewage plant in DG, and a warehouse/wharf - but I haven't made it functional yet. At the moment it's just for looks.

To be honest, one of the things that I like about Sims, is that it doesn't have cigarettes, or assorted stuff. I'm a bit averse to that.