More Construction Near Ttuman Annex

In case you haven't heard, the Key West Planning Board last Wednesday, June 25, 2007, approved the addition of a fourth floor to the parking garage at the Westin Resort and Marina. The floor will provide 114 more parking spaces and will not have a roof. If you live nearby, plan for more dust and noise.

One consolation. At least the project will likely be finished before new the Monroe County Courthouse, which at the glacial pace of construction there may not be completed before the decade is out.

Why? Because unlike the Courthouse debacle, Westin has an incentive. No one is going to pay $500 a night to stay at the Courthouse.