Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Must Read—Case Study: How Delray Beach Made the Transition from “Dullray” to a Vibrant Village by the Sea

Robert Caston from The Park and Facilities blog penned a very long case study about Delray Beach's history vis-à-vis their "Visioning" process. I would recommend you save this link to your browser "Favorites" and read parts at a time. For those of you involved in or interested in the improvements being made of late in Lake Worth you'll find this information enlightening, to say the least. A short excerpt:

Some residents will point to one particular period in the town’s history as an example of how this civic drive was able to push past several obstacles and take the city to the success it experiences today.
“(During this time) It had the bones, but no energy. You could have thrown a bowling ball down the middle of Atlantic Avenue at 5 p.m. and not hit anything,” said former mayor Jeff Perlman.
This was a subject at Jeff Perlman's recent talk given here in Lake Worth.