It’s time to get vibrant, creative: Ring in New Year 2018 on rooftop of the Gulfstream Hotel, host a Ghost Hunt!

Just because there’s no political will right now to get this structure open once again doesn’t mean this landmark can’t be used to help Downtown merchants. The City of Lake Worth has adjusted quite well to being a little side-trip for those staying in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach hotels. So why not try and up the game? Use the Gulfstream Hotel for parties? Maybe even a Ghost Hunt!

Cities and towns all over Palm Beach County are planning with their business community to attract tourists and visitors and keep them coming back far into the future. However, there will always be a need for other cities, e.g., Lake Worth, to provide services like a few hours of entertainment, party services, or for use on a sight-seeing brochure.

That frees up other cities to focus on the important things, like trying to catch up and fill the need for hotel rooms here in Palm Beach County:

“Tourism surge lures 6
new hotels to area”

“An eight-year stretch of record-breaking growth for Palm Beach County’s tourism industry has led to a surge in new hotel construction.”
—News from business reporter Jennifer Sorentrue. Use this link to read entire article.

Of course, our City of Lake Worth is not mentioned in this article. However, things looked promising last April for a new hotel in our Downtown:

“Demolishing the derelict structures on the neighboring [Gulfstream Hotel] property began Thursday [March 30th], said Jeff Mustard, a Hudson Holdings spokesman.”

But later we learned the Lake Worth CRA paid to demolish those eyesores — derelict structures on the western side of the property — not Hudson Holdings.

Going back even further, to a former tabloid that’s since gone defunct:

“This seems to call into question whether the developer would re-open the Gulfstream Hotel . . . and build a ‘second hotel’ if not awarded the beachfront project.”

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“We would like to immediately get to an agreement,” the developer writes in a March 2 [2015] letter. . .

If our City of Lake Worth is not going to join the “Hotel boom” here in Palm Beach County, why not at least do something with the Gulfstream Hotel property to attract visitors and tourists to our Downtown? Like maybe host the “World’s Largest Ghost Hunt” on New Years Eve?

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This event was abruptly cancelled last September.
Resident ghosts weren’t properly notified?

A “Ghost Hunt” would at least be something. New Years Eve is less than a month away. Search for ghosts and then have a big party on the roof to welcome in the New Year 2018!