Is Key West destined to become a patchwork of exclusive gated communities? If you believe what White Street Partners is saying there is no such plan brewing for the military housing property at Peary Court. The soon-to-be owners of Peary Court spared no effort trying to convince the audience at its June 27th presentation that Read More…
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Peary Court Redevelopment: Round Two
To integrate or not to integrate… Two schools of urbanism are at war over plans for redevelopment of former Navy housing at Peary Court. The process of permitting the latest plan for 208 new residential units began last Monday with a 4-hour debate before HARC (Historical Architectural Review Commission). “We want to fully integrate Peary Read More…
Peary Court: Conversions From Military to Private Land Should Return Property To A Normal City Grid
WHAT IS BEST FOR THE DEVELOPER IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY Thirty years ago Key West city planners and a few city commissioners attended a symposium about how cities gaining access to former military property should handle their new acreage. This was just before the Truman Annex was finally sold to Read More…
Key West Commissioners Considering A Ban On Future Gated Communities
What do the redevelopment of Peary Court and Trayvon Martin’s tragic death have in common? With the soul searching shockwaves that the Zimmerman trial has sent though our world, both raise the question of the social impacts of gated communities. “One of the many pitfalls of adding more gated communities that want to separate themselves Read More…
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$11.3 Million in Property Taxes? Not Yet!
The long awaited ruling on Balfour Beatty’s $ 11.3 Million property tax suit is finally in. Judge Audlin ruled in favor of the giant British conglomerate’s subsidiary, Southeast Housing LLC. The company has not paid any property taxes on hundreds of units of privatized military housing it has owned in Key West since 2007. The Read More…
CAUGHT!?
Looks like Balfour Beatty may be at it again! Have privatized military housing contractors been ratted out while trying to sneak a new tax exemption bill into the Florida Legislature? Balfour Beatty’s local military housing affiliate, Southeast Housing LLC, owns all of the Navy family housing units in the Key West area. Over a year Read More…
A Talk With City Commissioners About Workforce Housing
Dec 3 “We have one more week to find a place here in key west. If we don’t find a place by the 11th, we have to leave.” Dec 3 “I have to say THANK YOU sooooo much to everyone that has been helping us find a new home so far, it means the world Read More…
$11.5 Million Prize Turns Tax Law Into First Class Legal Jousting Match
There may be no salvation in sight for Balfour Beatty in its courtroom scuffle over delinquent property taxes. Attorney’s for the giant British conglomerate were in town last Monday trying to convince Monroe County Judge David Audlin that the company is not the owner, but merely a property manager, of 890 units of housing situated Read More…