“We deserve something wholesome in our community."~ Mayor Pam Triolo of Lake Worth
As quoted in article by Kevin D. Thompson/The Palm Beach Post, stating that she would love to see the Atlanta Braves move their spring training home to John Prince Park, west of Lake Worth.
I see nothing wholesome about the Atlanta Braves worth $1.5 billion wanting 100 acres of our county park for free and then the taxpayers who will be complicit in this vile act, willingly or unwillingly, paying $110 million for it. Our wonderful park, that is also a sanctuary for waterbirds and other wildlife and animals, will be destroyed.
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Parks actually provide many economic benefits. Parks are an asset to communities. Stadiums on the other hand have never been shown to be an asset to communities. This is because they are subsidized industries who expect a handout. The county would be better served to take the money and give it directly to Lake Worth and save the subsidy to the Atlanta Braves. Right now the county is asking for a one cent sales tax taking our sales tax to 7 percent, making us the highest sales tax in the State of Florida. If we cannot pay for infrastructure why would we take on another hand out to an out of state baseball team? The county just spent a significant sum on another team and we don't even know if this will pay for itself.
County parks are not easy to come by and John Prince Park is an historic park. When the Braves leave like they did in West Palm Beach the animals and plants that occupy the park will be gone and we will have an abandoned stadium. How does that benefit Lake Worth? And how many jobs does a three month industry of part time work really create? More drinkers for downtown bars if people decide to stop which most probably won't do because they will hop in their cars and head home. More litter and crime, more traffic, more police and fire expense. Who pays for that? Not the Atlanta Braves who want free land and a subsidy.
What about the animals and those who enjoy the serenity of a county park? Now they have a noisy stadium and congested traffic. Who wants their day ruined by a noisy baseball game near their home, or their view from their home ruined by the removal of trees and the replacement of this scenic view by a stadium?
Who will deal with the pan handlers and criminals who come to prey on baseball patrons? Who pays for the additional wear and tear on our roads the additional noise, water and air pollution? Sounds like more sales and property taxes for the public.
Well said! I can't believe this is even being considered!
I guess Scott Maxwell wants all of our kids to skip school. How else will they see spring training games in the middle of the day?I was downtown tonight, went to Starbucks and Hubby grabbed a slice of Pizza. We walked around for awhile and it was depressing. Dirty.Unkept.Lots of empty shops. Rotellis out of business.Another one bites the dust.We got hit up by a panhandler selling bracelets for five bucks for his "sick kid".Saw a fight between two skanks in the street between Igots and Daves. Good times.And all of this around 7:30 at night. Hardly after hours .Not a cop in site the whole time we were walking around. Maxwell and Amoroso will be happy to know that the bars,Kava and Vape shops are doing pretty good business. Oh, and we also can add a hookah bar to the mix. Arts destination my ass.What a joke.
Rotelli's is OUT OF BUSINESS? For real?
Before Mayor Triolo ,Commissioner Scott Maxwell and Andy Amoroso start fantasizing about property that is not even in Lake Worth, maybe the three Amigos had better focus on their own city. Pot holes that could swallow the Titanic, a dirty and increasingly vacant downtown , employees ready to riot over broken contracts and no raises since Moses parted the Red Sea, and a so many dead bodies turning up around Lake Worth that people are starting to whisper about a secret Government lab in the supposedly vacant Gulf Stream Hotel.Oh and JOHN PRINCE PARK IS A PARK , not vacant commercial land.
Before Mayor Triolo ,Commissioner Scott Maxwell and Andy Amoroso start fantasizing about property that is not even in Lake Worth, maybe the three Amigos had better focus on their own city. Pot holes that could swallow the Titanic, a dirty and increasingly vacant downtown , employees ready to riot over broken contracts and no raises since Moses parted the Red Sea, and a so many dead bodies turning up around Lake Worth that people are starting to whisper about a secret Government lab in the supposedly vacant Gulf Stream Hotel.Oh and JOHN PRINCE PARK IS A PARK , not vacant commercial land.
Our elected officials should be focusing on crime which is rapidly spiraling out of control, blight and code issues. Leave the pie and sky stadium deals to the County, leave the park alone and focus on your resident's needs. Gunshots over night, no cops in sight.
We need a more wholesome downtown without vapes, kava and bums. And a more wholesome commission, greed is not wholesome.
Despite being a diehard baseball fan, I am 100% against using public land and public tax dollars so that a corporation (cause that's all a baseball team is) can make a ton of money and then leave the taxpayers with an empty stadium in a couple decades.
However, if our city wanted leaders who would be against corporate welfare and for the people, the should have elected them a month ago. They didn't so I'm left to believe that the vast majority of this city want to see it turn into another Boca, Boynton, Delray....
Oh and to anon @8:55-- where were the cops? Probably inside of Dave's getting drunk with Willie Maxwell
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