Happy days may be here again!
At the end of the day, you’ve just got to hand it to Florida. Home of Pitbull, Ricky Martin, CJ and Damien Hobgood the Sunshine State never fails to delight, though its central portion is somewhat not very cool. Sure CJ and Damien lived there but Damien moved away and it’s true that the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater was born there but he isn’t allowed into Australia anymore.
Yes, Florida’s north has wild hootin’ and hollerin’ rednecks. Its south dancin’ and prancin’ Cubans. Its central merely the memory of Damien Hobgood, the specter of Slater’s vaccination record though all that is set to change as the world’s largest surf park, featuring a Texas-sized Wavegarden swell creating machine, has cleared one of the last remaining hurdles and is set to break ground in Fort Pierce any month now.
The City Commission Tuesday gave unanimous first approval for the first phase of the Wavegarden, part of the 200-acre Willow Lakes Resort Village community, 10050 W. Midway Road.
A final vote is expected next month, according to city officials.
“This is just a pivotal project in the city of Fort Pierce,” said Commissioner Jeremiah Johnson. “… There’s going to be a tourism component that’s going to be an immediate, positive impact within the entire Treasure Coast.”
The wave pool could make Fort Pierce a surfing destination in Florida
Phase 1A of the $595 million project would include:
A simulated surfing park
28 vacation rentals
A 9,882-square-foot maintenance building
160-190 parking spaces
A 51,835-sqaure-foot entertainment-and-retail hub, designed to look like a wave, may have space for surf and watersport shops, changing rooms, surf school, food and beverage outlets, a brewery, an outdoor terrace with a bar and an amphitheater, according to city documents.
Construction is expected to take 18 months though the project has been dreamed about for the past 18 years. The TC Palm cited the “Great Depression” as to why things to so long.
Damned Herbert Hoover.
In any case, happy days may be here again.
More as the story develops.
Isn’t allowed into Australia anymore – lololololol
I think you spelled comes incorrectly…
I hope you’re on twitter as that is the place to troll. Pick a subject and a victim, go hard at them til they block you. The Neil Young v Spotify/Rogan battle is raging on twitter and fertile ground for entertainment
I decided to down vote this comment as a protest to Dane’s down vote but don’t try to understand the logic as I can’t explain it anymore than Dane can.
My boys(both college grads) learned at young age how to turn wrenches on horizontally opposed 6 cylinders. Did I fail them by never teaching them to spank to Daisy(the Jessica version is rather nice) possibly while listening to Britney Spears? At least they still enjoy working on cars like Bo and Luke…but they’ll never live Florida!
WELL you forgot that Florida once had the unispiring Brian Laundrie who like Ronnie G (former HB enforcer) met his untimely demise due to his tragic actions…so Florida has that going for it!
make it cheapo for the poor guy , good idea
We have a housing crisis rents skyrocketing and the last thing florida needs is a half billion dollar water park why?
Yes those evil private citizens are at it again while ignoring the economic crisis they didn’t create! BUT did you hear? The park wll have a 300 acre field for the homeless to set up a tent city due to the Biden administration’s stealth efforts to cause inflation, rents and meth prices to spike!
At this price tag you can bet only the “elite” will be visiting! What a colossal waste of town resources…as a beach town resident, I can guarantee you they will not get the return (other than in tax breaks) they are touting! Shame in your City Council!
You’re pretty much spot on. This is NOT about surfing….it’s about selling stuff: “51,835-sqaure-foot entertainment-and-retail hub” for which the city & county will get sales tax, not to mention the property taxes on a massive development. But, I don’t agree that “they” definitely won’t see the return. The “they” here are the folks who are in the banking, lending, construction industries who I think will do very well. And, let’s face it: it’s Florida…there’s gotta be a golf course within a stone’s throw, so they got the whole spectrum to lure groups and/or extended families for vacations.
Hootin and hollerin rednecks? Prancin and dancin cubans? Way to simultaneously stereotype whites and Cubans, AND invalidate literally everyone else in Florida…
Fort Pierce is in South Florida.
What Daisy did to denim was definitely worth a spank or a spanking .
Why announce it at all – keep it a secret, builds excitement and anxiety (for Pip who’s might think it’s at some shallow left)
WSL really have missed an opportunity to keep us all engaged until right up to finals.
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Well it sounds like a great place for Good Old Boys , Bo and Duke and Kelly , unvaccinated and uneducated , to hang out on Man-Dates ?
Anyway if they get sick they can just paddle to Cuba , where they got real doctors and not to mention their prestigious biotech industry that has invented and produced 5 different Covid vaccines …..
They won’t let unvacinated into the tank, almost quaranteed.
And by the time it opens, there’ll mosy likely be another 5 to 10 new strains of Covid to deal with (or at least that’s what the Goverment will have you brainwashed to believe).
Still waters run deep ?
This is like invasion of the bodysnatchers. They got you too, huh?
They even got Sam
Live in mid west coast. Mostly with uneducated rednecks, but its fuckin beautiful, awesome fishing, and occasionally decent-good surf. Even if most of it is poor. When I say poor, I mean challenging, tough, unrelenting, not pretty. But, you fight currents, continuous duck dives, and shoukder burn. Then, she comes. A head-high beauty (hair color, up to you.) You drip in and the hour of shit melts away. Come try it. It will make a real surfer outta ya. Ill go, just to see. But prefer Mother Nature.
That sounds brutal.
Well you have to remember Vax never was to prevent you from getting.
Nore was it ment to prevent you from giving.
It was so fat 60+ peeps don’t die.
Ya im a fat 60+ you want a Vax get 1 or 2 or 3.
You don’t want then don’t get why would I care?
It’s a Workers paradise!!
Not much use to you tho.
Distilled water and a fancy label would be more effective
Did your husband not give you a hug this morning?
You are more kind than savage big H .
but, BUT the cigars! Cuba has the cigars!!
Hahaha, wave tanks, the opiate of the masses.
They’ll be happy to take your $$ while the kids from poorer families stare at you through the fence built to keep them out.
“Wave Pool is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
The quotation originates from the introduction of Marx’s work A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right …and Lefts in the Wave Pool …..?
I’ve always wondered if Marx is being mistranslated because I think “opioid” sounds more menacing as in it’s effect on the mind and not the drug itself.
Translating often slightly misses the target and sometimes is way off .
I was working in a restaurant kitchen in France , with mates from Durban and Cape Town …… who referred to our not so talented French Dish Pig as “Opium” ( OPES for short ) …..A SLOW WORKING DOPE
Sadly enough I don’t think religion was his major problem .
And fort pierc is a cocaine minefield. Guess they think this might clean up its image. There’s a nuke power plant up the road with endless power. Maybe they can capture manatees and throw em in for obstacles.
I’ll gladly pay a little to get your kids off the fence and into cleaning my car while I surf.
Once got dropped in on by Sebass Zeitz at Pierce. Think he owns a house there or something. It was kind of funny. He looked at me as we were both paddling in, clearly marked me as a novice with my ginger hair and over 40 body. Promptly forgot about me and then looked back with a shocked face when he saw I was a foot behind him and proceeded to pump quickly and fly away from me. It all happened in 2 seconds cause that’s how long fla waves last.
Also there is a whole small wave, logjam, skimpy bikini crew at FP that one cannot complain about.
The town town is pretty dodgey looks like detroit
It is a shame you can’t return the favor and drop in on him on Kauai ….. because, due to lack of photographic evidence , we must assume , that there are definitely no waves on Kauai ! Which somehow , produced Goat Kryptonite …..maybe the Goat was from Kauai ?