Downtown Lake Worth to get public parking garage but lawsuit looms
(This story was updated because an earlier version contained an inaccuracy.) One of Palm Beach County's last cities with no fully public parking garage took a big step toward building one downtown on June 30, overcoming concerns over its financing and the end of free parking.Lake Worth Beach city commissioners voted 4-1 to allow construction of the garage south of Lake Avenue, on the northwest corner of South K Street and First Avenue South. Commissioner Chris McVoy, long opposed to the project, cast the opposing vote.
The vote changed the city's zoning in the area to allow the parking garage. The K street garage will be part of the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts campus.
The planned 95,000-square-foot, four-story garage will have 260 spaces, but once city-owned parking lots replaced by the project are taken into account, the growth in new spaces effectively shrinks to 133, according to Chen Moore and Associates, an engineering consultancy hired by the city.
Developer Anthony Wiener is contributing $1 million to the $8.5 million garage, with the city contributing the rest.
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I will never, ever pay for downtown parking. I will either go elsewhere, or pay an Uber to do drop off and pick up. Every Lake Worth citizen offended by this breach of faith by town government, should make this commitment as well. Dont let a dollar go to the Museum...Dont put a dollar into the parking.
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