Ben and Erin Napier Open Up About Bringing Their Brand of HGTV Magic to a 'Forgotten Florida' Town (Exclusive)

The ideal vacation in Florida Ben and Erin Pisser does not include a particular mouse, but there are still plenty of magic.

For the third season of their Spinoff series Downloading his hometown, In which HGTV stars help the revitalization of a small town of descent, move to sebring, Florida, a destination for the resort with the transmission of a century that is needed by great reinforcement.

The married designer and Carpenter felt an immediate relationship with the environment for the season.

“When you live in Mississippi, you grow up on Florida’s vacation, it’s a beach,” Erin explains. However, Sibing, the central city of Florida of 11,000 in which the home of the historical industry of the citrus and has to do with NASCAR, is a little different. “These are not the thematic parks, which is not the beach. It’s something else,” but it’s equally special.

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While the smell of orange flowers lured Erin, the aroma of the burning tire caused Ben’s occupation. “I read about the racetrack and that a lot of teams train there,” he says. “I know some guys NASCAR, so I called one of them, and he said,” Oh yes, let’s go there for road training. “I said,” Can you tell me anything about the city? “And he said,” I don’t think there is a city there. ”

The drivers are not the only ones who unintentionally crossed the self. Piwers call the region “Forgotten Florida”. “It’s a holiday country that Erin and I like to visit because it’s an old vacation. It’s a kind of rest that our grandparents continued on,” Ben says.

Sebring residents were already pushing for their city to return to the ticket when the Peniers withdrew in 2024.

“You could say that there are people who really love it and that they care about it, and parts do it well,” Erin explains. “But in the city center, specifically, it was fifty or sixty percent closed,”

Adds Ben, “things that were open, were great and shiny. And then things that were not open were not open in a long time.”

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Through six episodes of the season, which began on March 9, Ben and Erin will help owners of companies refresh their stores, make homes of residents who are community pillars, and public space rehabilities to serve and people who live there and visitors who hope to attract.

Pissers and their daughters, Helen, 7 and Mae, 4, had to sample sweet life while shooting.

“Our girls, all the while we worked, had adventures and went to these great fruit farms where you could get all the orange taste of orange: oranges, orange ice cream, orange juice, orange bombs, they got it,” Erin says. “But it is simply different from [our hometown,] Laurel [Miss.] and so differently “from locations Downloading a hometown Season 1 and 2 in Fort Morgan, Colorado and Wetumpka, Ala.

Ben and Erin decided during the first season to the only way to make a show that demanded that they be far from home for weeks, which they would do for their family if they bring their girlfriends on their way.

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In the segong, “we rented a house on the lake and every day when we got home, or we would all go to sit on a dock or pull out in the water,” says Erin. “The girls would play in the sand and felt like we were on vacation. They didn’t know anything different.”

Concept Download Born from the transformations they were achieved by the Putiers in their own small town, where they returned houses during 8 seasons of their hit series Hometown, And the opening of several companies that pulled visitors from all over the country.

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“It seems that if there is anything worthwhile we can offer, then we should definitely,” Erin says about spreading a good word about (and hard work that comes) to re -empower the small towns of America. “We know what is not doing, surely. We have learned that. I think many cities could have hope that they can only emulate what they like a different city and that it will turn out the same way. But this is not the case. And this is an important lesson we know how to apply: you have to be the city you are.”

The biggest step, Ben says, “from us who do it all these years is that Laurel can’t be a wetumpka. Sebring can’t be Fort Morgan.”

Erin adds, “Everyone has to find their own taste and then really sell it to the people who live there, the people you already have.”

New episodes of the parent city of Takeover Air on Sundays at 8/7C on HGTV.

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