Kevin Abate and the team at Parks & Rec will be giving the residents of Martin County another entertainment experience. They have now proposed that they turn the Martin County Golf Course into an entertainment golf experience. Let me explain.
For $5.5 million, the County will be building a new clubhouse described as modest (4000 sq. feet). The Blue and Gold Courses will be improved, and a new executive course will be built on the old Red & White courses. It includes a new parking lot and other needed improvements.
As every expert stated during the long review process, 27 holes is the perfect size. Martin County Taxpayers Association authored an extensive article analyzing the golf course and came to the same conclusion. That report used a budget of $2,750,000, without such an extensive clubhouse. They recommended that the 9 holes that would no longer be needed be sold to the airport’s enterprise fund which would offset some of the costs of the makeover.
Naturally a simple amenity for the residents of Martin County is just not good enough. The County Commission was beside itself with joy when it heard the latest from the Abate Entertainment Division of Martin County Government. The theme will be “Let’s have a cool experience.”
They are going to build (wait for the drumroll) an entertainment facility where there are bays where the customers will hit balls at various targets plus enjoy food and drink while they hang with friends and relations. Martin County’s very own impresario Kevin Abate (by the way he lives in Broward) has modeled his latest extravaganza on Top Golf in Orlando and Big Shots in Vero Beach. Both private businesses. Further there is something similar being constructed in Tradition that will be operated by the private sector.
To know more, look at their websites:
The BOCC fell all over itself to invest your tax dollars in another boondoggle. Did they even realize what they had voted for? How many times are they going to take us for a ride? Why can’t we just have a place for our residents to play a game of golf? Shouldn’t amusement parks be run by the private sector?
One other thing the Martin County Golf Course will be renamed to capture that new cool factor. Maybe Abate Enterprises and the BOCC can name it “Idiot’s Delight” after that old Clark Gable Movie. Or better yet, from a verse from Proverbs: “A fool and his money are soon parted”
To read the Martin County Taxpayers study:
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