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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16 comments:
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.
Just park a few blocks away over on F or E Street for free, so much waste and fraud in government!
Grannies, women and visiting families going to the theater ain’t walking the streets they need safe areas to park free of vagrants and drunk drivers.
@7:32...as a reminder, the Playhouse does have valet parking.
Parking garage will benefit valet parking for Oceano, Paradiso, and Rustico also the theater valet parking situation and free up street parking for residents on J,K,, L & M street. Thank you
@12:25...Not if they put in street parking meters on Lake and Lucerne.
Just remember one thing what happened to the casino.. cost overruns the add-ons.. for tiny City doesn't have any money how they going to afford all this.. oh let me guess we'll take out another Bond.. this little town is going way too fast the infrastructure is not going to be able to hold it all.. but then again they're going to do what they want to do.. nobody listens to the people that live around here..
130 some parking spaces ridiculous.. this is going to end up like Delray Beach.. all the shops and nobody goes to all the restaurants and the bars people go to.. put parking meters in every parking spot .no more free parking downtown. Where is the city going to get the money from that's what I want to know.. just remember every project that the lake Worth Beach does is way over budget.. and it's never finished on time.
Parking garage sounds like a good place for the homeless to sleep.
Who is WMODA to dictate what Lake Worth Beach residents should do anyway. If it gets much hotter, there will be a mass exodus from S. Florida, so let them plot and plan. In the interim, Uber does sound like a good idea!
I love this...we can rename the garage, "The Betty Resch Homeless Shelter". IT gets added to the "Betty Resch Homeless Pavillion" at the South end of Bryant Park, located within 30 feet of the Kid's Playground -- so that the children of Lake Worth get a needed exposure to drug addicts, domestic abusers and criminals. This sickness is something that Progressives feels should be welcomed into all of our family gatherings.
Wow it sounds like the city has gotten really bad with a lot of crime and blight I don't know who the hell would want to live there anymore it never got better after 25 or 30 years of trying to live here it just never gets better!
Right good point and how is the city going to be able to maintain all of this going forward too small City and got a lot of problems and I don't think that they're able to maintain what they have right now so good luck with maintaining this million dollar parking garage! The city is in deep!
The town is not going “to fast”, how can you say this please show some proof. This is why the commission and mayor shouldn’t listen to rhetoric coming from people who never built or owned anything just negative about anything hating life.
Thank McVoy for that
Seriously funny, Dan
@4:22...??? McVoy voted against a parking garage. So, thank him for what? He tried.
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