500 N. Dixie is the old Palm Beach Showcase property owned by PBC Land Development LLC. It is situated on 1.1928 acres and the building comprises 23,703 s.f. They paid $2,230,000 in April 2006 and will be paying $29,668 in advalorem according to their latest tax bill.
The owners have allowed it to go to blight and now vandals have defaced the front of the building in spray paint from the decorative tiles near roof to the bottom of the building. The words are difficult to discern but the letters to the right of the front door seem to spell Jihad. As this is on a busy highway, you have to wonder how they got away with it and were unseen.
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I saw this today on Dixie, these people are bold. I would love to know how they did this without any police or people seeing them do it. We have a serious problem here in this city Sher. Bradshaw! What are you doing about it? I have never seen such impressive and bold graffiti in my life. The blight is getting worse and worse here.
I reported it to code yesterday--they inspected and they opened a case.
I continue to marvel at the high end property owners that do nothing to maintain their properties and never get cited by code. Why in the world would this property need to be reported to code. It sits on Dixie Highway for all to see. Code officers probably drive by it 10 times a day. Meanwhile, code spends its limited resources and time on things like dead grass at a small homesteaded property. I'm not saying grass doesn't matter, but come on, focus on the big properties, the properties on the main roads, the real blight first.
The guy that owns this property owns Provident Jewelry and has lots of money. Why doesn't he maintain the property. I have to maintain my properties in the City and I'm just a little gal.
Between this property and the continued disrepair and failure to maintain at the Gulfstream its very telling regarding Code dept. And come on, how does PBSO miss this. PBSO is basically worthless at this point. Yes they show up if you call, but otherwise, unless in their helicopter do little to no patrols in the City.
Go after the owner. PBSO is supposed to have an anti graffiti unit.
Lynn called it in to code. I called it in to the PBSO graffiti unit. The owner DOES maintain his property. This was just done recently.
This looks like the work of the same people who defaced the South side of the same building a few years back with "FTP"
Hope they catch to scumbags and wish they could make them pay for and repaint the building.
Citizens shouldn't have to call it in to PBSO. They should be patrolling our streets. Don't we pay them enough?
There was trash on the property. Perhaps the owner does maintain this property but it didn't particularly look like it yesterday.
As I was driving around the city yesterday, it seemed to me that about 75% of the blight could be eliminated if the homeowners would just clean up around their property: paint; landscaping; and picking up the garbage would make Lake Worth look like a new city. These items should be mandated. It all goes back to enforcement. We have laws, ordinances, code issues, etc., but none of the laws have any teeth. Until we stop ignoring the egregious code infractions in the city, I don't care what they do about the roads.
Anonymous at 10:00 Do you really think it is the job of the police to report graffiti? That's the job of Code Enforcement. It wouldn't hurt the City Manager to ride around and look at these things either.
blaming the owner and code is minor.almost looked like these guys or gals used a ladder.guess the patrol was still celebrating their win
Anonymous at 2:15: You better check yourself into one of the many sober homes. Your grasp on reality is slipping!
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