Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Lake Worth City Hall once an auditorium

Nice article by Elliot Kleinberg on the history of the building we now use as City Hall - our former Municipal Auditorium.  I would like to see the building returned to its original use as an auditorium.  It seems as though it is difficult to find a space in Lake Worth to house a large group of people at one time.  The larger assembly space could be used for City Commission meetings.  We would avoid situations where there is standing room only - if that even exists - for some meetings.  It could also be programmed for community groups and whose to say we couldn't have special film nights, or performers of all kinds.  I really think that there would be room in our city for such a place, in addition to the Lake Worth Playhouse.

Of course, we would need another space for the administrative functions for City Hall - which might be found in the reuse of other buildings - the City Hall Annex comes to mind..  Or, we build a completely new building somewhere west of the current building.

Your comments are appreciated.  How best to do this?  Would it be worth issuing a general obligation bond to do so?

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