Boynton Beach considers selling City Hall

Boynton Beach 's City Hall could be for sale. The city hopes the 2.69-acres City Hall sits on at Boynton Beach and Seacrest boulevards could be prime real estate that a developer might want.

[Einstein]

This would allow them to buy that Strip Club property and ... move city hall to that address?

[Bored Member]

Why would anyone consider selling NOW?

[verdugo]

IF WEILAND IS GOING TO TAKE THE LEAD ON THIS,WATCH OUT bOYNTON.hIS TRACK RECORD AS A BUSINESSMAN IS DISMAL AT BEST.

[girly]

...the author needs to finish the article. The last sentence.."100,000 square feet"...of what??

Yeah, sell city hall for 11 million, then build a new one for $15 million. That's how this will work out. Government can't do anything right.

[lowell]

what a bunch of dopes

[What A Waste]

I was an employee at City Hall when they built the complex at a huge cost...emphasis added as to HUGE COST to taxpayers. The taxpaying public has no idea how much money was really spent on the monstrosity. For a city manager and a commission who is always crying the blues about lack of revenue sources and the subsequent need to lay-off employees..the idea is foolish at best.

Boynton Taxpayers should get...no...DEMAND a tax rebate from the city...as it seems the city has alot of money to waste.

[knowledge]

The CRA and City are the same entity. The report will come back with a glowing agreement what the CRA wants. The city mayor & commissioners will agree with the CRA and the report they wanted. But economics will not add up and again it will fail. They economy is not where it should be now! Save the $30,000 for the study and use for community rebuilding not downtown developers pipe dreams?

[Florida Real Estate Agent]

Big deal. I sold it twice just last week

[Spend Spend Spend]

girly wrote:

...the author needs to finish the article. The last sentence.."100,000 square feet"...of what??
Yeah, sell city hall for 11 million, then build a new one for $15 million. That's how this will work out. Government can't do anything right.

After they build a new city hall then they will have to build a new police station and a new fire station. Makes sense to me. LOL

[Tom]

When this plays out, the taxpayers will see which developer is in bed with which city commisioner.

[Parent]

There goes the Art Center and Civic Center! Where will the children go?????

[Mangler]

Shhshh. Don't mention that and the public won't think about it.

Spend Spend Spend wrote:

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After they build a new city hall then they will have to build a new police station and a new fire station. Makes sense to me. LOL

[Mangler]

The 2.2 acres is for the 2 story white building on the corner, not inclucive of the library or the civic center, or the old school or the playground next to it. Of course, those won't fit into the master plan of the developer and will be subsequently raized as well.

Parent wrote:

There goes the Art Center and Civic Center! Where will the children go?????

[pie]

If they sell City Ha and relocate to a less expensive place, will they be writing rebate checks to its citizens? LOL

[lab-rat]

Einstein wrote:

This would allow them to buy that Strip Club property and ... move city hall to that address?

Better yet, don't buy the Strip Club and just have commission meetings there every Tuesday.

[Barry]

girly wrote:

...the author needs to finish the article. The last sentence.."100,000 square feet"...of what??
Yeah, sell city hall for 11 million, then build a new one for $15 million. That's how this will work out. Government can't do anything right.

Yeah; more like 50 million though....

[Freckles]

Ron Weiland said "The property the city is sitting on is worth a lot of money. "If we're talking dollars and cents, I think [City Hall] could fit right into the town square on Ocean Avenue. There's many variables. It depends on what shakes out."??????? Hummmm, so at the expense of taxpayers they will tear down City Hall on Ne 1st Ave and rebuild it a block away in the town square on Ocean Ave? Am I reading this right???? The city's budget has been cut to skeletal remains yet there are members of the commission who want to waste millions of dollars to see "what shakes out"? That is the danger in a Commission/CRA board, when something goes before commission to be passed, it was put there by the very people who will vote on it. I hope the voters of Boynton Beach really do their research next election on who they are putting up on that dais to make the decisions that affect their lives, their children’s lives and their wallets.

[Bada Bing]

Don't spend the money on that Strip Club on U.S. 1

[Mangler]

And what makes you think they don't already?

lab-rat wrote:

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Better yet, don't buy the Strip Club and just have commission meetings there every Tuesday.

[Sparky]

girly wrote:

...the author needs to finish the article. The last sentence.."100,000 square feet"...of what??
Yeah, sell city hall for 11 million, then build a new one for $15 million. That's how this will work out. Government can't do anything right.

You are correct but the price tag will surely be higher than $15 million for a new city hall.

plus calculating the cost of the move, new stationary for all of the city departments, etc.

It's a bad idea and smells awfully fishy. Sounds like somebody already has a potential buyer for the current city hall location.

I also love the way they throw money arouund for "studies" especially at a time when state funding is being cut way back and local funding is as well.