“If Jimmy Weekley were mayor, Waterfront Market wouldn’t be closing.”
Fresh from the hands that feed the mouths before word has even “officially” got out- that Waterfront Market is set to close at the end of the month because the famous community hub is being pushed out! Employees and staff having been given their final month’s notice today! – this true edict being uttered tonite island-wide from a heart-breaking number of our good neighbor’s mouths may or may not be the case.
But the one thing is certain is this:
If the community of Key West loses Waterfront Market under Morgan McPherson’s watch, his tenure as mayor is over.
An island mayor either has what it takes to avert a man-made disaster of this magnitude, or else the word on the street tonite is he has no business being an island mayor.
How many restaurant-running, business-having, home-owning, boat-using, tax-paying, neighborhood-living, community-having and registered voting people’s lives does Waterfront Market touch every day?
Mayor McPherson is presently scheduled to find out.
Who says? A little bird told me so. It was The Cormorant.
3 responses so far ↓
the tracer // September 5, 2007 at 9:47 am |
And what if marie antoinette had said “Let’s subsidize a few bakeries for awhile and maybe train some bakers.”?
Captain Roger // September 6, 2007 at 1:10 am |
The “Battle for Water Front” Market has been long with the city. It truly started under Jimmy Weekly’s watch as mayor. It is Mayor McPherson whom will have the opportunity to preserve a community staple that is utilized by everyone in this One Human Family.
Do think it’s future lies safer in the hands of a man currently raising a family here or a man that owns a competing grocery store in old town? We get to decide in the fall but, it looks like it may be too late.
Pao // September 8, 2007 at 3:29 pm |
And so it goes that Key West will soon be uninhabitable to anyone that could possibly work there. You just have to wonder what’ll happen when the island is turned into one big resort with no employees, when the local “flavor” that people come to see is gone, once every establishment of use and merit has been turned into a t-shirt shop just before the cruise ships stop coming because there are no more shoreside facilities and excursions available. Who’s going to pick up the trash on the street then?