Re-Imagining Lakewood Park as Mixed-Use Development/Marina

[Jim O'Bryan]

Maybe it's time for City Hall to revive Fitzy's Grand Vision of a County Jail in Lakewood.
Trump's "Law and Order" Administration offers lots of growth opportunities for incarceration facilities.

Lakewood Park has plenty of room! And I'm sure the Team Summers crowd won't mind living next door to a lockup.

Actually he had the FitzGerald County Prison, "With the cream of the criminal crop." was to be built between Lakewood and Alameda.

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[Dan Alaimo]

Looks to me like the broad scope of this plan adds while not subtracting from the park.

[cmager]

"With the cream of the criminal crop."

The best. Only the best.

[cameron karslake]

Brilliant Idea Brian! Maybe it is too big for the local developers.

I agree it's brilliant but I think it is too big for local minds.

[jackie f taylor]

I commend and support your vision of Lakewood Park, what a great vision, that's where I vote my tax dollars go. I'm too old to enjoy it, but our future residents will love it.

[jackie f taylor]

There should be a Marina, docking, restaurants, hotel's. Cabs taking visitors to various restaurants, clubs, bars, Lakewood's attractions, like Vermilion, Marblehead, Geneva on the Lake. We are on the lake.

[jackie f taylor]

I have to laugh cmager, I was once known for only wanting the best... lol. the best cupcakes, the best building, the best flies, the best idiots, the best bull sh_t. lol

[jackie f taylor]

I have to laugh cmager, I was once known for only wanting the best... lol. the best cupcakes, the best building, the best flies, the best idiots, the best bull sh_t. lol

[todd vainisi]

Everytime I scroll past this thread I think it says something about Lakewood Park and using marijuana!

[Lori Allen _]

So, Mr. FitzGerald wanted to build a jail. Couldn't the first prisoners to be put there be FiztGerald, Summers and Extended Company?

[Jim O'Bryan]

Everytime I scroll past this thread I think it says something about Lakewood Park and using marijuana!

Thanks for the smile.

To Ed FitzGerald's credit, at the time, there was big money in owning prisons. He had crunched the numbers, and many people with fine reputations supported the thinking.

My horror at the time, and often happens here, they have good reasons, but they don't run the full equation. Prison takes up space, makes property denser and harder to get, brings jobs, and perhaps other jobs in the form of bondsman and attorneys. OK, who wants to live in the first ring of streets from the prison? Second ring? Within it's security lights? I pointed out to Ed that many of the people that go to prisons to visit prisoners were sketchy. Also prisoners we released at the door?

The next time the plan surfaced he had moved it to Berea Road.

What seems to escape so many is the city spent nearly a quarter billion dollars on education, schools, libraries, parks. How does a city, county, federal prison add to that investment?

I just wanted to clear up that Ed wasn't completely nuts, though I still chuckle at "Jim, I can get us the cream of the crop of prisoners."

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[Lori Allen _]

I don't think our alleged city criminals would be considered the cream of the crop!

[Jim O'Bryan]

I don't think our alleged city criminals would be considered the cream of the crop!

Well as they have not yet been convicted, or charged, or possibly even investigated, I would think they would not be part of the judging process.

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[Lori Allen _]

I think we all what they all have allegedly done. So, maybe they don't get caught. Committing a crime still makes you a criminal. I believe we all know where they belong!

[Jim O'Bryan]

I think we all what they all have allegedly done. So, maybe they don't get caught. Committing a crime still makes you a criminal. I believe we all know where they belong!

Actually

I thought we were talking about dreams for Lakewood Park.

I could be wrong.

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