Longboat Key’s Colony Resort today in pictures
Pictures of the closed Colony Beach & Tennis Resort days before the Longboat Key Town Commission decides whether to continue grandfathering the 232 tourism units. The owners are still debating rebuild vs. renovation.
And some people believe this resort and its units are still inhabitable? Come on, let’s get serious.
Once a beautiful place…
What’s wrong with the people who let this once beautiful place deteriorate to this point. At this point it would cost more to repair than tear down and replace. Of course on the island many residents would rather see this property become a ghost town than have a new modern state of the art facility to generate tax revenue for the island. Oh, that’s right we don’t want tourist here.
Lots of blame to go around, but it would seem that the Courts are taking their own sweet time to decide who owes what to whom. I’m surprised we don’t read more about where the liability will fall, and how many folks end up taking bankruptcy to avoid a judgement balance that is many times higher than the actual value of their teardown (uh, I meant unit). I guess investigative journalism is no longer interesting when one can fill the pages of a local paper with random neural firings by an idiot toward the Mayor. And does the Colony board no longer hold elections? The Captain of this Titanic could stand to be replaced.
Jay Yablon, Longboat’s very own Pied Piper, merrily leads his Condo Association down the wrong road to destruction and loss. On September, 24, 2012, on the County Court House steps, the Colony Condo Association foreclosed on two separate units that had not paid their Association common area charges of over $39,000. The Condo Association bought them for $1.00 each.
One of the problems with a seasonal community is that no one lives here, and no one is really all that concerned about what goes on, as long as they can get reservations for dinner the two or three months they are in town.
Since no one on this island needs or wants to work in the service industry, the Colony will only possibly directly generate profits for some developer or motel chain. The added visitors will up-tick local sales which is good. One positive side to any reopening of the Colony, in the distant future, is that the workers will use the buss so ridership will increase slightly.
I feel a really beautifully executed resort hotel will attract investors whereas wooden cabins are a little 50′s.
So sad.
Murf should have listened to the loyal friends & lone time customers of the Colony – who had the resort close to their hearts – when we told him changes needed to be made, years ago…