The Chamber of Commerce was given a deed to this property at 501 Lake Avenue in 2005 by Arnold Greene. In 2016, the Chamber sold the building to the City of Lake Worth when the Chamber merged with Palms West Chamber of Commerce. We bought it for $250,000. The total market value of this property is $530,641 in 2018 according to PAPA. We know their assessments are low.
Below is what the city has allowed to happen on the east wall of this historic building. The Chamber of Commerce was first established in 1912. Back then, Lake Worth had 308 residents and I would suspect that all of them had some common sense. They were making history. And now, in 2019, we would like our history preserved.
who paid to completely remodel the building .it wasn't the chamber
ReplyDeletewhat the H is wrong with this commission allowing this to happen/ Look at that horrible paint job on this beautiful building. Ass wipes. they ruin everything and then want to get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteLake Worth: murals gone wild. Many in very poor taste. Don't do that to a historic site. Same goes for the utilities building. Garish cartoons.
ReplyDeleteThat is awful. This is what happens when a bunch of silly people are told they have talent. They grab a paint brush and start destroying things. It should all come to an end. They are ruining all of these buildings with this garbage they call art.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they've ever been to a real Art Museum! By the way, we don't have any real Art Museums in South Florida!
no art museums in south florida? you must not get out much....
ReplyDeletethis building is beautiful. the mural is not.
If you want history preserved, vote for Richard.
ReplyDeleteBeen thinking about the parking garage... why don't they buy property and/or bulldoze something non historic that the CRA owns on dixie or the west side of dixie and put in surface lots for now, to help attract new development on the avenues by providing the parking spaces. This might also help build up the west side of the avenues.
ReplyDeleteThe proposed parking garage I am assuming won't be free and paid parking to go to downtown LW is a huge deterrent. WPB and Delray have free parking with many more amenities than here in LW to attract people...
Would be better to use that property downtown that they bought for a mixed use partnership for a developer to put it nice condos or town homes. Bcs of the ideal location. Seems way too premature for the city to pay for their own parking garage at this stage of downtown development.
if you want the city back vote them ALL out and start over with term limits
ReplyDeleteIs wes still on the historic board? He should be ashamed of himself. Plus, look what they did to the annex building, another historic building trashed and looking like some psychedelic freak of a mess. What is wrong with all the wackos here? Are thee any truly educated people left living in this city? All we have is a bunch of hs dropouts running this place. It's no wonder no decent people want to live in this hell hole filled with illegals, addicts, renters, and losers.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry 11:44, but I can't think of one museum with any of the Great Masters; The Hudson River School; or any of the great Portraitists, i.e. Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, Sargent, etc. If you can point one out to me, I'll pay the price of admission.
ReplyDeleteThe Four Arts used to have some wonderful exhibitions, but the dilettantes have taken over there too.
Actually, the Historic Board approved just about all these murals. There are a few that went up by people thinking they could just do it because they occupy the building. There are procedures and agreements and approvals. If you don't like it, apply for membership to the Historic Board or any other board of interest to you. Don't just sit there and bitch about what majority of fellow citizens agree is the artsy direction we are headed.
ReplyDeleteWe have all seen hideous paint jobs of buildings that no one has control over. Each of these renditions at least were given consideration by staff and board. In the case of the 'historic" former chamber building, the mural was slated to go on the front and the board denied it there but approved it for the side.
Along with our internationally renowned Street Painting Festival, people outside Lake Worth really enjoy coming here for the quirkiness. You complainers don't realize what we have here.
@8:43...if the board approved all these murals perhaps it's time that they be replaced.
ReplyDeleteAnd no one has to accept things for which they disapprove. Our opinion is as valid as yours. We are not sheep, anonymous so take a hike.
The city owned buildings with the horrible murals look dastardly. IMHO
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There are much worse looking murals than what are on city owned buildings. Some did not come before the board. Most if not all were approved unanimously. Maybe you should attend the meetings to voice your disapproval if you don't want the commitment of board membership.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind, there are members of the board who are strict historic purists. And they, sometimes grudgingly, vote for this artwork.
@ 7:50.... check out the Norton, it's right up the road, free on saturday, enjoy! and you're welcome.
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