Delray Beach, our neighbor to the south and a sizzling tourist destination according to the Palm Beach Post, now "is a target of boutique hotel chains — the biggest trend in the lodging industry. A new 4 story hotel is on the horizon."
“It’s a trend everywhere, and Delray Beach is a very good marketplace,” said Steven Michael, a principal with Delray Beach-based Hudson Holdings, a major downtown landowner.
Site of hotel on property owned by Hudson Holdings
Read about it... at the PBPost.
Yes, 4 stories today is not 45’. The rendering posted of the 4 story hotel is taller than 45’. The good news is of the of the 9 buildings in the city taller than 45’ built in the last 104 years, 6 of them are in our hotel district, within 4 blocks of the 85’ tall Gulfstream Hotel built in the 1920’s.
ReplyDeleteWhat is definitely a good thing, anonymous at 12:20, is that the heights referendum passed on a 57% vote of the electorate in spite of the dirty tricks that were played. We who voted to keep our city lower at 45 feet don't really care about what this Commission did designating a Hotel District. They are not well thought of in the eyes of the voters who voted to keep downtown lower in heights.
ReplyDeleteIf you keep going around the vote of the people, you will be voted out.
anony 12-20, you sound like the typical developer backed whore in Lake Worth who continu4es to want to change our city to something it isn't and no one wants.
ReplyDeleteWhen the community welcomes people and businesses that are willing invest money into their community, then you become a "sizzling" destination. When the community vilifies you and makes up lies to keep said community a slum, then you remain a "fizzling" ghetto slum. If those Hudson guys are smart, they'll let that gulfstream rot away and give the lake worth liars what they deserve.
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ReplyDelete1. name the lies.
2. Who wants to keep this place a slum?
3. Show me what Hudson has done--projects that are successful or even completed.
4. Businesses are welcomed here...we bend over backwards to give away the farm by favorable zoning laws and lucrative deals such as allowing them to build higher with some community benefit.
5. If we're lucky, Hudson will renovate the Gulfstream and get it opened as a hotel. Hudson is already letting it "rot away."