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From the Miami Herald: “Hollywood beach to get its own Margaritaville”
Hollywood city commissioners voted Wednesday night to go with a Cheeseburger in Paradise rather than Somewhere Over the Rainbow as they voted unanimously to approve plans for a $100 million Margaritaville resort on the city’s most prized piece of oceanfront land.
From WSVN channel 7: “City decides on beach’s landscape”
City leaders have made a decision that will dramatically alter Hollywood Beach’s landscape.
City leaders have approved a proposal for Margaritaville to begin plans to reside on Hollywood Beach.
Initially two $100 million hotel proposals were being considered for 25 acres of beach, between the Intracoastal and the boardwalk at Johnson Street.
Margaritaville and Jimmy Buffet were up against Sylvester Stallone and his Planet Hollywood. The developer of Planet Hollywood said the opinion polls are swinging his way. “Planet Hollywood is leading two to one in all the public opinion polls,” Jim Wilson said.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:16 am
About time, Hollywood beach is a diamond in the rough just waiting for some one to shine her up. Go Jimmy!!
April 8th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Absolutely fabulous! I know where my vacations will be spent in the upcoming years!
April 8th, 2010 at 9:01 am
That’s awesome news! It may be the only thing that keeps me from spending ALL of my vacations in the Caribbean islands! Fins up! Way to go M’Ville!
Ben (@carib_amphib)
April 8th, 2010 at 11:22 am
fantastic news
April 8th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
aaaah! Margaritaville is on a runaway corporate train!! STOP THE MADNESS! You are over-marketing this brand and alienating the diehard fans. Stop the corporate machine and kick out the margaritaville boardroom, for christ’s sake!
April 8th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
ALL this is FOR us PARROTHEADS…not JOE MOE the COMMON traveler or MARY the COMMON walmart SHOPPER!!!!!!!
THIS is STUFF we THE PARROTHEADS WANT !!!…WOULD rather STAY here than the RITZ !!!
KEEP it COMING JIMMY!!!!…..
see ya in TEXAS EVERYONE !!
PARROTHEAD RED
todd
April 8th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Am celebrating this great news by drinking some Margaritaville Rum!! Am thrilled. We will definitely be vacationing there. Can’t wait!! Nobody could design a better vacation spot than JB. The original sketch looked fabulous. You definitely know what we want!!
THANK YOU JIMMY!!
April 8th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
i hope folks aren’t being serious about visiting this place every year. there are a thousand better vacations out there than this. bring your Buffett filled iPod, margaritaville rum, and landshark beer with you if you must. didn’t Jimmy himself write a tune about Overkill
April 8th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
the EXAMPLE of OVERKILL is HANNAH MONTANA on EVERYTHING but my ass !!..THATS a true OVERKILL!!!….buffett is FINE !…..FINS UP!
April 8th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Derek I so Agree With You.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Rock on Derek. Overkill is the key word. I’m going to play that song on my ipod now while I browse the internet looking at Margaritaville christmas decorations, footwear, rum tequilla, beer, shirts, hats, keychains, auto accessories, drinkware, home decor, kitchenware, beachware, and oh! The leather landshark golfbag that sells for just $299.95.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:34 am
To each his/her own.
Not everyone likes the same thing. Some people are into baseball not football. Some folk like hot dogs others like hamburgers. Others prefer both.
For those of us who are supportive of the concept and see it as a positive, we will vacation there and have a great time and be grateful for it and yes return as often as we can. What is so wrong with that. This resort is going to create more jobs, and bring more travel business to the area not to mention the state. Is that not a positive thing?
For anyone who is not into this concept there are plenty of other places to visit and enjoy. Go forth and find where that place is make a reservation and enjoy yourselves.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:36 am
Chachi, I agree…
It use to be cool to see a t-shirt from a Margaritaville; because there was so few.
Now the only Margaritaville that is cool to see is from Cozumel, because it’s a little harder to get to (unless you mail order it).
Bottom line Jimmy, your marketing board is over marketing your product.
Oh well, when the boat sinks, It sinks…Fins up
April 9th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I’m just a bit disappointed in the whole monster behemoth that it’s become. Don’t get me wrong, I still love JB and his lifestyle. Why else would I check this website along with all you other parrotheads!
April 11th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
A place like Hollywood Beach??? WHAT!!!!
For us Hollywoodians who know about fun in every direction on Hollywood Beach that’s imaginable, Margaritaville will be the icing on the cake of our ammenities in this place where there’s something to do for everyone.
Margaritaville would be another find addition to our cities newly manicured beach with a lenghtly cobblestone boardwalk that holds fun to thousands daily, live sidewalk entertainment, beautiful crystal clear ocean scenery, the best pizza joints around, parasailing, and the fising & diving off the coast is addicting…
Margaritaville, us locals welcome you to our tourist filled city of Hollywood where everyone leaves with a smile ! We Can’t Wait!!!!
And perhaps some of you out of state residents may want to do your homework on traveling to the city of Hollywood, which happens to be South Beach’s next door neighbor….
April 11th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Hollywoodian are you Jimmy B?Just Curious Don`t Cha Know?
April 16th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Jimmy is pathetic.
April 19th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Good for Jimmy…we’ve seen the disasters that Hard rock park and Planet Hollywood became…this place will do great! Hmmmm…wonder what Universal thinks about the Hemisphere Dancer moving out?