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Nine stories and 152 room hotel planned in West Palm Beach. This is one of seven new hotels underway or planned for their downtown. Get this from the article, click title for link:

A recent survey concluded the estimated 1,100 downtown hotel rooms are about 2,000 short of what West Palm Beach should have to serve the corporate and convention business it seeks, officials said.
“The city knows we need a whole lot of hotel rooms,” interim Community Redevelopment Agency director Brenda Kelley said Friday.

Perhaps our hotel market consulting firm of Timm and McVoy will reconsider their conclusion that there is no market and never will be a market for hotels in Lake Worth? Such visionaries, both of them, I don't know how a town built on tourism like ours couldn't find at least 50 hotel rooms in its next hundred years. Maybe even within the next 5 to 10 years. Perhaps they'll reconsider their conclusions.