Now and then I get a real "charmer" who comments here. He was answering the letter to the Editor on the Ag Reserve but somehow got diverted and talked about the Gulfstream Hotel. Here is an excerpt:
Unfortunately, your tired complaint of the vote being deemed null and void by the State of Florida is your constant fall back position. Oh Boo hoo.This was just an ad hominem attack--the belief that an argument is a simple competition in which winning or domination is the goal. Name calling and ignoring a vote is egregious. We have had plenty of that with this Trio commission where personal understanding is unimportant, and mutual understanding is completely irrelevant and the vote of the people is meaningless. The vote was deemed null and void by the City of Lake Worth, not the State. Think about it. Three people can directly affect your lives whether you win the vote or not.
The current Gulfstream Hotel lawsuit is evident of a certain diminishing element of narrowly focused crunchy granola types and trust fund babies, and serves as proof of their unhappiness. It's also proof that these select minor opinions are choosing to hold hostage the redevelopment of our city. It's the same select minor opinions who wish to cause increased expense to the city on a position that thy will lose - again - in a court of law.
Your comment at 9:14 last night had nothing really to do with this Letter to the Editor. The present owners have never had any intention of renovating this historic hotel, IMO, and now want to use the excuse of a lawsuit that only has to do with our Charter that affects the new development of the parcels to the west of the existing hotel. They now use this as an excuse to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but let the existing hotel go to more slum and more blight. If that corporation was serious, the present hotel would have been renovated ions ago.
It is this present commission that created a lawsuit. It was this city administration that in all their arrogance, that is responsible for barreling over the people to do the will of three commissioners and not the 57% of those who won this vote to keep heights at 45 feet. And it is they who are directly responsible for this hotel remaining idle two years later with the present owners using the lawsuit as some excuse for not renovating it. They certainly can't flip it or develop it right now but they knew the vote when they applied for 65 feet and was granted it by this majority city commission.
I thank all of those who stand up for principle and democracy and trying to right the wrongs in this world--you are to be greatly admired even though the cards are often stacked against you. It takes a lot of money whereas the city uses the taxpayer's money to defend. Sometimes the people win; sometimes we lose. But we have to keep trying to keep it all honest.
So, oh, boo hoo yourself, Mr. "Charmer."
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That is a charmer for sure. Granola bars are for those who want to be healthy who are busy people who need a quick nutritional snack. This has to be Blackman or Scott's sidekick or some equally asinine person.
It's now 19 months since Steven Michael said at a public neighborhood meeting that the Gulfstream would be refurbished and reopened in 14 months.
Perhaps by "reopened" he meant broken into since that's the only progress he and his holding company have made.
He was aware of the heights vote when he purchased the hotel and instead of following the expressed will of the people, exposed the City to a lawsuit so that he could get approval for greater square footage resulting in more profit when he flipped the property.
I am waiting for him to foot the bill for defense of the suit he provoked.
It seems apparent that he is in town to get as much control as he can wrestle away of our billion dollar public beach and public pool, not to restore and re-open the Gulfstream Hotel.
It is kind of humorous to decipher the murky message and grammar here. The intent is obvious, to belittle any opposing viewpoints. But I do find the choice of language amusing. Reminds me of listening to Archie Bunker and his various diatribes to the Meathead attempting to prove his point, which is usually that he is correct in his prejudiced opinion because he just proved it by using the wrong words to prove an incorrect point. I find is especially humorous to find that "minor opinions" are holding our "redevelopers" hostage!! Now that's some powerful minor point of view!!
Thank you Joanne, Lynda and Roseanne.
I agree. If they really wanted to renovate the hotel they would've done it anyway.
The lawsuit gives HH an excuse to do nothing. Everytime someone asks about movement, they point to the lawsuit and say we can't do anything until its resolved. Is that true, no. But, it gives them a quick and easy out.
Three words that the owners of the Gulfstream probably have tattooed on their rear ends" DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT ".
There is no reason not to have started renovations YEARS AGO on this hotel.
I'll gladly take a crunchy granola bar over the fatty WEINERS that the wise guy charmer partakes of on a regular basis !
Can anyone point to where Hudson is delaying because of some lawsuit? Is there a lawsuit? Is it against Hudson? It seems to me he is going forward and got permission to demolish the two buildings and don't know why he hasn't done that yet.
The lawsuit is against the city of Lake Worth and is exclusive to the City Charter.
The only logical conclusion one can derive is that Hudson Holdings has put a halt on development of this property using the lawsuit as an excuse. If their intent is to
1. renovate the existing hotel, then they should do it.
2. flip the property then there would be no buyer alive with a lawsuit pending
So, the conclusion is that they want to re-sell their interest (they are investors) But they went into this with their eyes wide opened. I would guess should the city LOSE the lawsuit, then they will be sued by Hudson as the city assured them "no problem."
This is a lawsuit that the city HAS to win and they will spend small fortunes to do so, IMO.
I agree, if H.H. were going to renovate it, they would have done so before now, they are just using the lawsuit for an excuse. They are waiting for the City to declare it a nuisance and unrepairable and ready for Demolition , so they can declare demolishing it would be the only thing they can do then. They are also waiting around as they want their hands on the beach, that is their real $$$$ money making deal.Just Wait around till the people tire of standing up for what they believe in. As for the lawsuit, Lake Worth never fights a lawsuit, they just give in and pay them money.
The author is a woman, no 'fatty wiener' attached... who also eats crunchy granola, and who also understands that it was the State decision to declare the vote 'null and void'. The lawsuit is without merit.
The state has made no decision on this. The Lake Worth clerk caved to the POWERS THAT BE and never sent in the results of the referendum. The state does not dictate municipal charters.
Steve Michael is also "historically" renovating Old School Square in Delray. And what has he done with the historical buildings there? He has taken them out of this location altogether. Moved them away. Delray is now having buyer's remorse. His justification--says he intends to relocate them to some other site so that all these historical buildings can be together. Wanna bet it will be a dump site?? This guy is untrustworthy at any speed. Especially the turtle speed he exhibits in Lake Worth. But I hear the rats love him. Free room and board.
In Delray, he wants to move the historic structures (he hasn't gotten permission yet) and he has also oops destroyed some down there. This guy is such a scammer, he has a long history so I find it amazing that LW powers that be are so enamored with him.
7:42 State has no bearing on our election. What Scott put into law 3 months after our election does not pertain to a charter amendment.At one second after midnight this became law. It doesn't matter that Pam Lopez refused to do her job. 45 feet is the height limit in that area. And when did the state decide it was going to govern retroactively? How retroactive ? 50 years? 100 years? Can someone take away the womans right to vote? Can Florida now deny black people the right to own land in Florida? This is really going to open up a fun can of worms.And 7:42- hope you find your real father. Hopefully he hasn't been turned into a pork roast yet.
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