Those contacts provide invaluable guidance and have displayed great enthusiasm for such a broad-based program. The World's First Televillage Development Company Acorn Televillages, Ltd. , an English development company with a Missouri affiliate, broke ground on a fifty-acre televillage in Nevada in late 1997. All home sites are adjacent to lakes or open commons areas. A network of walking trails and recreational amenities will be built throughout the tract. The company also has an option to acquire an additional 510 acres of property adjacent to the first phase.
Plans are to develop that property as an extended televillage over the next several years.
Acorn has nearly completed work and sales on its first major televillage project in Crickhowell, Wales. That project and its sister development in Nevada are the first two units in a network of affiliated televillages the company expects to build in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other English-speaking countries. The televillages provide unique working and living environments for home-based business operators and residents. The Managing Director of Acorn Televillages, Ashley Dobbs, founded the English Telecottage Association. A recognized pioneer in the field of teleworking and home-based business development in the United Kingdom, Mr. Dobbs brings a wealth of expertise to the televillage movement.