You know, there was a time in Lake Worth when there was a big push to land a hospital within our borders. I think that we can make more of an effort to connect, via trolley or other transportation method, to the existinng JFK Hospital campus. Here, West Palm Beach may be courting a new health center on one of its prime downtown locations. Click title for link.
City commissioners voted Monday to start talks with a developer who plans a medical center at West Palm Beach’s long-vacant “tent site.”
The vote followed a contentious meeting where they heard two separate proposals, got a surprise pitch from a third suitor, and heard impassioned pleas from area hospitals who fear competition.
The panel, meeting as the board of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, opted to talk for the next 90 days with a consortium led by developer Michael McCloskey, and to get a new appraisal for the 2.4-acre site at Okeechobee Boulevard and Dixie Highway, valued in 2010 at $10 million.
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