Meanwhile surrounding bay area municipalities are rocking and rolling with a huge influx of jobs and economic development. Pacifica should offer up tax free zones (Quarry) to attract some large revenue generating businesses into our town. The Old Waste Water treatment Plant on Beach Blvd could be leased for a dollar per year for 10 years to attract a high end destination boutique hotel/conference center. How 'bout building a huge tourist destination business around "The World Famous Devil's Slide Trail". Let's not miss the train again.
A high-end destination boutique hotel and conference center on Beach Blvd? Yeah, that whole area just screams high-end. Don't forget the CCC and their mission to preserve and improve public access to the beach. They have little to no interest in helping Pacifica make money. Kinda like the people we keep electing only the CCC is honest about it.
Believe it or not the promenade is very scenic. 1000's of people a day enjoy it. I don't see them strolling down LM Blvd. Sharp Park has 100X more charm and character than the ghettos of Linda Mar any day. Some neighborhoods in LM look like a used car lot in Tijuana with junkers, boats & RVs everywhere. Sharp Park has very nice streets, not clogged up with junk cars parked everywhere. Custom and turn of the century homes in Sharp Park verses cookie cutter ones street after street in LM with their Xmas lights up all year. Stop being so jealous.
Pacifica has a few nice pocket neighborhoods/streets scattered from one end to the other, but overall it's rundown and getting more so. Stunning homes on Pedro Pt. are right next door to rundown messes or structures that resemble giant shoeboxes. That's the story all over town...Sharp Park included. Park Pacifica still looks pretty good, but too boxy for you I guess. The rest? It's a free for all from Fairmont to Linda Mar and a lot of Pacificans like it just that way. Guess that's the charm.
Those streets near the pier have some nasty surprises. Especially right around the imagined location of our future high-end boutique hotel. Are those derelict-looking apts still across Montecito from City Hall? Good grief what a dump.
Amen 846. I'm still laughing over that wacky comparison between the numbers of people walking on the Promenade vs. Linda Mar Blvd. If only Linda Mar Blvd was more scenic, we'd have 1000s walking it. 1000s.
846 & 1228 if you ever came down to Pacifica's prominade you would see that there are about 2-3 people walking by every minute (on average). That works out to over 1500 during a 12 hour period. But you never come down there, you're too busy walking your pitbull in the slums of Linda Mar.
1040 Look a little closer with those rose tinted glasses. It's the same few people walking back and forth day and night. Just out of jail, early release, parolees. Bee-line back to the old neighborhood. And their ladies. Very scenic.
Haha those are the same thousands of people using all those glorious trails this city builds. When do we start seeing something besides dog crap from all these people enjoying scenic Pacifica?
West sharp park, around the pier, has some run down properties, sure. But overall the area must have some charm because people are buying small houses in the neighborhood for over $550 a square foot. A 1200 ft. house on Paloma just sold for $665k. I think the next few years will see some improvement in the neighborhood as places are fixed up and sold. I wish they would underground the utility lines on the residential streets too instead of just on Palmetto. It'd improve my view!
Houses sell, houses don't sell. Nothing new about that. It hasn't changed the rundown look and feel of that neighborhood through several real estate cycles. There are a few nice houses but then you've got shacks and cheap looking apts mixed in. West Sharp Park's main drag and new downtown, Palmetto, is a zoning mess. Hard to fix any of it in a coastal zone even if someone had the bucks and interest. Oh well, it's all so charming. And it doesn't belong to the GGNRA.
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Meanwhile surrounding bay area municipalities are rocking and rolling with a huge influx of jobs and economic development.
Pacifica should offer up tax free zones (Quarry) to attract some large revenue generating businesses into our town. The Old Waste Water treatment Plant on Beach Blvd could be leased for a dollar per year for 10 years to attract a high end destination boutique hotel/conference center.
How 'bout building a huge tourist destination business around "The
World Famous Devil's Slide Trail".
Let's not miss the train again.
Anon@3:21: the only train through town left the station more than 80 years ago. I kinda think we've all missed the last train by now.
A high-end destination boutique hotel and conference center on Beach Blvd? Yeah, that whole area just screams high-end. Don't forget the CCC and their mission to preserve and improve public access to the beach. They have little to no interest in helping Pacifica make money. Kinda like the people we keep electing only the CCC is honest about it.
Believe it or not the promenade is very scenic. 1000's of people a day enjoy it. I don't see them strolling down LM Blvd. Sharp Park has 100X more charm and character than the ghettos of Linda Mar any day. Some neighborhoods in LM look like a used car lot in Tijuana with junkers, boats & RVs everywhere. Sharp Park has very nice streets, not clogged up with junk cars parked everywhere. Custom and turn of the century homes in Sharp Park verses cookie cutter ones street after street in LM with their Xmas lights up all year. Stop being so jealous.
Pacifica has a few nice pocket neighborhoods/streets
scattered from one end to the other, but overall it's rundown and getting more so. Stunning homes on Pedro Pt. are right next door to rundown messes or structures that resemble giant shoeboxes. That's the story all over town...Sharp Park included. Park Pacifica still looks pretty good, but too boxy for you I guess. The rest? It's a free for all from Fairmont to Linda Mar and a lot of Pacificans like it just that way. Guess that's the charm.
Those streets near the pier have some nasty surprises. Especially right around the imagined location of our future high-end boutique hotel. Are those derelict-looking apts still across Montecito from City Hall? Good grief what a dump.
Thousand of people per day. Maybe on the 3 weekends a year when pacifica hits 80 degrees. Parts of sharp park look like a chit hole.
Amen 846. I'm still laughing over that wacky comparison between the numbers of people walking on the Promenade vs. Linda Mar Blvd. If only Linda Mar Blvd was more scenic, we'd have 1000s walking it. 1000s.
846 & 1228 if you ever came down to Pacifica's prominade you would see that there are about 2-3 people walking by every minute (on average). That works out to over 1500 during a 12 hour period. But you never come down there, you're too busy walking your pitbull in the slums of Linda Mar.
Even if the Sharp Park prominade has 100 or 1000 people walking by a day, it is a complete and utter failure they have no place to spend money!
I guess city council has given up on having Palmetto being the downtown hub. They are too busy chasing the neon rainbow pipe dream of the library.
1040 Look a little closer with those rose tinted glasses. It's the same few people walking back and forth day and night. Just out of jail, early release, parolees. Bee-line back to the old neighborhood. And their ladies. Very scenic.
Haha those are the same thousands of people using all those glorious trails this city builds. When do we start seeing something besides dog crap from all these people enjoying scenic Pacifica?
West sharp park, around the pier, has some run down properties, sure. But overall the area must have some charm because people are buying small houses in the neighborhood for over $550 a square foot. A 1200 ft. house on Paloma just sold for $665k. I think the next few years will see some improvement in the neighborhood as places are fixed up and sold. I wish they would underground the utility lines on the residential streets too instead of just on Palmetto. It'd improve my view!
Houses sell, houses don't sell. Nothing new about that. It hasn't changed the rundown look and feel of that neighborhood through several real estate cycles. There are a few nice houses but then you've got shacks and cheap looking apts mixed in. West Sharp Park's main drag and new downtown, Palmetto, is a zoning mess. Hard to fix any of it in a coastal zone even if someone had the bucks and interest. Oh well, it's all so charming. And it doesn't belong to the GGNRA.
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