"It will take a lot of money to get Benzaiten up and
running. If you walk into this kind of situation and are too thin
financially, you won’t succeed, It’s one of those things
that will take a while to kick in.” ~ Shanon Materio,
a West Palm Beach city commissioner who owns McMow Art Glass in Lake Worth speaking about the Benzaiten Center, the old 10,000 s.f. FEC railway station building that was leased just 6 months ago from the City of Lake Worth for $1 a year for 20 years.
The amazing thing about Lake Worth is that it continues to "lease" out/give away our city owned property for $1 a year or negligible amounts and then they cry "poverty."
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5 comments:
They do this all the time. What the hell? Why don't we sell these properties and get them on the tax roll?
No one wants them.
No one wants them? Really? I guess we'll never know.Lake Worth is the most selectively broke city ever.
How long was the beer place vacant? How long has the shuffleboard building been vacant? A lot longer than the "worst commission ever" has been in office that's for sure. Has anyone tried to buy and rehab those buildings? If the intelligence level of the people that read this blog was even 1% of the ignorance Lake Worth would be a lot better off.
You read it. What is your IQ? Did it ever climb over 69 when you took the FCAT at age 35??
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