Video from Last Night's Historic Resource Preservation Board re the Gulfstream Hotel

If you have an extra five hours, here is the meeting in a video playlist. I will be sorting out the highlights, but this is everything until the batteries died at 11 p.m.. The good news is that the Historic Board passed 4 of the 7 items on their agenda and will come back on March 9th to finish up. The major items like the site plan and the conditional use were approved. I'll have more detail on what is still left to be reviewed soon.

Here are some stills of the crowd and the presentation. Many people came out and were generally supportive of the requests. The board made many suggestions and adjustments, including the removal of the retail space from the parking garage and relocating that as a retail/restaurant space off of Lake Avenue as part of the new building. They also adjusted the setback of the new building on the west side of the property so that its colonnade will be five feet closer to the right-of-way.