you can't, it has to be a community lot.
ctrl+shift+c changelotzoning residential. then your community lot is a residential lot.... your welcome
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Once you have placed the lot you can't change it to a community lot but when you are placing a lot it asks you wether you want it to be a community lot or a residential lot hope that helps :)
Go into the lot you want to change by build mode, not by families. Once there, open the cheatbox and type: changelotzoning residential Type it just the way it is. Leave the lot to go back to the neighborhood and your once apartment lot will be changed into a residential lot.
Firstly, you need to be on a residential lot (aka not a lot which you made your sims go to, like the grocery in plasantview). the buy mode is down in the bottom left, with the picture of an armchair and a lamp.
It is easy to make a pub on the Sims 3. But you need to buy "The Sims 3 Night Life" first. Bridgeport is a good place to start. find an empty lot, click on it's tag, then switch it from residential to community. - and then under community name it pub, or bar. Then you can build on it, and Sims all around your town will be talking about your new pub.
If you have the sims 3 ambitions, you can create a new lot in Edit Town
In Sims 2 you can open 2 types of bars. Residential bars can be placed in residential lots or a community bar can be placed on a 2 by 3 plot of land in a community lot. Community bars will spawn a bartender.
Residential is a singular and plural word if you mean residential lot. "I live on a residential lot." ; "There are a lot of residential lots."
In The Sims and The Sims 2, families go into the family bin when they are moved out of a residential lot. In The Sims 3, families have unlimited uses, meaning that they will only disappear out of the bin if deleted.
You have to choose a blank lot that is already there or u can bulldoze an existing residential or community lot and change its type and build and whatnot.
make a lot of land the when it ask you what to call it make a community lot by clicking on the community box