Grand Opening of the Emerald Grande

[windrift]

I appreciate reading everyone's opinion. I agree with each of you 100%.
It's a terrible eye sore for Destin. To me it looks like its been planted there by some visionary their eye of our future. Glad I'm getting older and will not be here forever to see all the mistakes humans make.
It's a shame... a developer with oodles of $ can talk a committee into THAT!

 

[GoodWitch58]

...and isn't a shame that a developer with oodles of $$ doesn't have any more taste that this?

It is simply horrible. Gives me another reason to avoid driving into/through Destin. This building has forever ruined the most gorgeous view in the world.

 

[Tupelo Honey]

Is their spa open yet? Anyone seen it?

 

[John R]

I drove across the bridge the other day in and out of Ft.Walton. I must say that that is the ugliest, out of place building I have seen in quote a long time. It's a shame that it's the first thing people see after crossing the Island. A huge mistake.

 

[DD]

I drove across the bridge the other day in and out of Ft.Walton. I must say that that is the ugliest, out of place building I have seen in quote a long time. It's a shame that it's the first thing people see after crossing the Island. A huge mistake.

What he said

 

[raven]

it's just tragic how tacky and wrong all the developers in destin are. they can't do a thing correctly! i love how he compares it to developments "worldwide" as though any of these idiots have been beyond south alabama. vile and tacky. all they would have had to do is stay in keeping with indigenous architecture and build community and tourist programming around the ecosystem and they would have been billionaires. instead they are small time operators who only know how to con a buck out of their guests instead of build a legacy of goodwill and a fortune.

 

[Bob]

It's the future of 30a ?

 

[scooterbug44]

Only if we don't get an ironclad countywide height restriction!

 

[TooFarTampa]

It's the future of 30a ?

This is what I'm thinking the whole time I'm reading this thread. (Except when I am laughing out loud at SHEL -- who is a guy, only guys talk about enemas -- and beachmouse. You two have a way with words.)

BeachyQueen, don't feel bad about starting this thread. If it puts the fear of God into SoWallers, then it is well worth it. We have to stay on our toes.

 

[beachmouse]

If anyone feels any additional need to cringe in horror, they're working on the, ahem, dramatic front entrance to Turnberry Harbor right between Destin Commons and the middle school.

I think it might be even more special than Emerald Grande by the time they're through, provided that the project gets off the ground. (Lots of resales at no gain in the complexes that I'd consider to be the competition)