Friday, November 15, 2013

Holiday Inn Express coming to Lake Worth

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The night of the ROLOH meeting, City Manager, Michael Bornstein, announced that a Holiday Inn Express will be developed on the corner of Boutwell Road and 10th Avenue North in Lake Worth. No details were given.

Back in January 2012 at the Tri-Board meeting that everyone wants to conveniently forget, all heights throughout the city were discussed and consensus given on all.  One discussion was the Park of Commerce.  The P&Z wanted 6 Stories at 65 Feet and Staff Recommended that it be 4 stories and 45 feet. Staff had determined that the Infrastructure Study indicated that it would not support P&Z Recommendation. The consensus was that we needed to tweak the infrastructure plan to allow the higher as suggested by P&Z. As far as I recall, that never happened.

5 comments:

  1. Mr. Sibia, the builder of the contraversial hotel in Boynton on Congress is planning to build here. Hope he finds a friendlier environment here. Welcome to Lake Worth Mr. Sibia!

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  2. Boutwell and 10th has ZERO residential properties surrounding it other than some at a distance on the north side of 10th. This should be a great location for a Holiday Inn Express.

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  3. Are they going to build higher than 4 stories? As I recall the Gulfstream at one time was a Holiday Inn, they did not make it here in Lake Worth....

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  4. This hotel has had problems "making it" ever since it was built back as far as when Golfview Road was called Q Street. Going through several bankruptcies and owners through the years, it is a shame that the present owner bought too high and the market tanked. It languishes and he and his legal counsel continue the games.

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  5. This is the same P&Z board that this commission replaced. Their heights recommendations were not in their developer backed agenda.

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