Coffee Plantation, Key West

Season is here

2009-10-24T11:45:00.000-07:00

After a summer season that gave us plenty of time to do what ever we wanted to do, the season is changing and the busy season is here.
Seems like our regular international summer customers have left the Island and our familiar winter snowbird faces are back at the Coffee Plantation for there caffeine fix.
We at Key West finest Coffee House, the Coffee Plantation tresure this time of the year.
All the customers tell us their summer adventures and they all want to know about what has happened this summer at the Coffee Plantation and on our island of Key West.
Hug's are given and story's are being told,
The coffee is brewing, Loretta's pastries are baking...yes... season is here. And yes, we love this time of the year.
This week the Bahamian street fair Goombay in the Bahama village, kick's of the season's festivities, and traditionally that party is the beginning of Fantasy Fest. Fantasy Fest is the biggest party that Key West has to offer.
Make sure you visit us here at the Coffee Plantation if you are visiting us for these festivities, the Coffee and the Pastries will be ready.

We are going to Holland

2009-07-30T11:56:00.000-07:00

Diane, Loretta and Theo are all turning 50 years old this year and we have been tossing the idea around to go to Holland for this half a century landmark birthday.
We are planning to visit Theo's family and of course we would love to visit Amsterdam.
Amsterdam... the city that really never sleeps, the Rembrandt museum, Van Gogh museum, Vondel park, boat rides, Red light district and of course the coffee shops....
Liberal Amsterdam was a topic of discussion on one of O'Reilly's show on the Fox news television network.
Bill and his blond bimbo newscasters think that the liberal marijuana laws in Holland and in particular Amsterdam are failing and the drug lords are taking over the streets in the capital city of the Netherlands.
Wouldn't it be nice if these so called "shock newscasters" get there facts strait and do some real research and come with some real fair and balanced news shows...
As a response to this unfair broadcast a short facts video clip was made and of course we at the Coffee Plantation would love to share this with you.

Bill O'Reilly is a douche bag....and we are going to Amsterdam

A happy customer....

2009-07-19T10:25:00.000-07:00

We at the Coffee Plantation love feedback from our customers....
Read what Jay and his family had to say after visiting our Key West coffee shop

Hi,

We just wanted to thank you again for the fantastic coffee, breakfast & ambiance on our last day in Key West. We definitely picked the right place to bid adieu to the Southernmost city in the Continental US.

I loved hearing all about culinary school in Virgina along with the family stories from up the coast in NY. Congrats again on your success & we hope to see you again in the future.

Thank god for local coffee shops, stores & restaurants. We're proud to say that's all we patronized on our trip last month in the Keys from Homestead to Mallory Square.

Take care & continued success.

Yours truly,

Jay Mastrud & the family (Heidi, Bea, Gus & sister Sue Kowolkowski from Chicago)

Thank you Jay...
You made our day!

Turtle Released

2009-07-06T15:12:00.000-07:00

A recovered loggerhead sea turtle named after President Barack Obama was released in the Atlantic Ocean off Key West on Saturday.The turtle was rescued on Key West's Higgs Beach on Jan. 19, the day before Obama's inauguration. It was then transported to the Turtle Hospital in Marathon.Obama the turtle suffered from a severe intestinal impaction, which caused a body cavity infection, Turtle Hospital administrator Ryan Butts said. Because of the timing of turtle's rescue, officials thought it made sense to set it free on the Fourth of July."The turtle came in at a historic moment and was named after the new president, so we thought it was appropriate to release 'Obama' to freedom on America's Independence Day," Butts said.About 100 people watched the turtle's release Saturday."We got the turtle down on the sand and it took off," Butts said. "It was so excited and swam away with all the energy it had."

Summer time

2009-06-07T07:49:00.000-07:00

Wow.... what a season we had here at Key West finest Coffee House, the Coffee Plantation.
With all the worlds economic crisis and global terror fears, we here in Key West lived our season to the fullest. Business was good, some days even better than last year and time for anything other than having fun living here in Key West was hard to find.
Every Wednesday the Bocce athletes of the Coffee Plantation did their best this spring season for a playoff spot, and we failed, we where the big losers this time but we didn't care, we had a great time loosing....
Plenty of exciting things happened this winter, we took out of the water the Schooner Western Union for his big restoration project, and we brought the "Van Den Berg", another ship, to the bottom of the ocean.
This spring Theo became a United States Citizen, after all this time living in the US and the desire to become part of the election process, he raised his hand and pledged his heart to the flag of the United States. Wow... that was a big one....

Between all this excitement of this busy season the barista crew found time to go to Rick Worths art classes. Theo, Diane and Loretta love their Tuesday class at the Armorie and that shows in the painting we have painted. Check out the paintings of Theo, Diane or Loretta by clicking on our name.

Sweet...

2009-03-30T15:04:00.000-07:00

Two and a half years ago I started a quest to get myself my favorite motorcycle by trading up from a red paperclip.
The bike I really wanted was a late seventy's BMW preferably a R90S.
I have reached my goal and I have been driving around our Island on my brand new 1982 BMW R100.
Follow this link to read the whole story....

Definitely "Worth" it

2009-02-18T09:18:00.000-08:00

The Coffee Plantation barista team of Diane, Loretta, and Theo have been attending art classes from the famed local Key West artist Rick Worth, Rick is known for it's paintings of our tropical island of Key West and he uses everything he can find to use for his painting pallet.
You can find Rick's work on tin roof panels, cars (yes, cars as in vehicle) and of course canvas.
His classes are attended by art eager locals who would love to pick up some of Rick's incredible talent.
Last night our friend and Key West visitor Cherie joined us for a "art boot camp" class.
The results are phenomenal, who knew, yes, we can be a artist too....

Hot from the press

2009-02-17T13:07:00.000-08:00

As the sports page reported....

Key West's Southernmost Bocce League rolled into their spring season opener with excitement this past week. A-Plus Strokers and Bobalu's were the big winners Monday night sweeping all three games against Pallina Posse and Angelina's Pizzeria respectively. The league's reigning champs Cowboy Bill's had a bye giving the Monday night rollers a breather from this dynamic team.

On Tuesday,
Grumpy's Sunset Cigar went 3-0 against Sons of Italy and Margaritaville won all three games against ReMarCables to go 3-0 as well. Meantime Bocce Babes showed some talent and finesse going 2-1 in their match with West Marine.

On Wednesday,
The match of the night was Java Junkies and championship veterans RGC Insurance. Java Junkies jumped out with a 16-5 win but went down in flames 16-12 in both the second and third game of the match. The consistent Green Parrot team and Beer 30 started their season 3-0 making Keys Breeze Realty and Sans Balls rethink their strategy.

On Thursday,
Bocce Bubbas were perfect and took all three against Kathy's Krusaders while the match up of DonKeys and Schoonfield was intense. DonKeys edged out Schoonfield 16-15 in their first game but Schoonfield came back in the second and third game winning their match 16-11, and 16-13 to start 2-1.

Bocce Fever

2009-02-09T16:45:00.000-08:00

It's that time of the year...
The Southernmost Bocce League teams are getting ready for the spring season opening games.
Fee's are being paid...,balls are being polished..., and the beer coolers are being filled.
Let the games begin...
The Athletes of the Coffee Plantation's official Bocce team the Java Junkies have been preparing for this spring seasons games.
We have been preparing for this upcoming season with talking strategy, and a desire to win.
"Juggling Jason" has been working on his close to the Polina game,
"Dee the Iceman" was, and still is working on his blast techniques,
"On top of the Polina Tom" ordered our weekly suply of Captains Rum and Seven,
"Caffeine Larry" looks more Bocce concentrated than ever,
and, "Dynamite Theo" is going to be their to keep the team caffeinated...
What a team.
We feel, and we hope that we can do better this spring season than our fall seasons 6th place cliffhanger.
After a season of incredible hard work and good sportsman ship we ended just one place away from the desired Southernmost Bocce Championship playoff spot.
Our fans of the Coffee Plantation Bocce Team the "Java Junkies" deserve better.
We as a team are convinced that we can bring home at least one of these widely desired Southernmost Bocce league champion price placks this time around.
Room is being made on the Coffee Plantations wall to hang this treasures Bocce recognition.
We will keep you posted.

Our President

2009-01-21T16:01:00.001-08:00

Even though The Acura Sailboat racers are filling up the Coffee Plantation Coffee House for their pre-race caffeine fix this week, we did find the time to call our friend Barack Obama and welcome our new President into his new office.

Besides all the well wishes we had prepared for our commander in chief, we assured him that whenever he decides to travel to our Southernmost City or have a summit with Cuban leader Raul Castro at the Little White House here in Key West, we at the Coffee Plantation would be honored with his visit.

All of us here at the Coffee Plantation would love to provide him with his presidential cup of Cafe Con Leche, we assured him its the best in town. We will even deliver to the little White House....

Appriciated...

2009-01-19T05:46:00.001-08:00

You have heard us more than once talk about the locals, tourists, and all other unusual characters entering the Coffee Plantation.
Some with special coffee needs like 25% regular coffee with 75% decaf...., skinny sugar free decaf vanilla latte...., or just, our world famous Costa Rica Reserve.
Some come here to do their office work, write a book, surf the web, enjoy the Coffee Plantation comfort and stay just way to long........, and, some hop in and out, and are out of our hair in seconds.
But one thing that all of our loyal Coffee Plantation customers have in common, and that is they are humorous, honest, and just so nice...
On this Saturday, "Anne Strout", enjoyed her fresh cup of coffee she just had purchased from the Coffee Plantation and was stretching her legs on our comfortable Coffee Plantation front porch.
Time came around for here to continue her walk through our Historic old town Key West district, and, not until the next day did she realized that she had left her camera on our front porch....
A fine Coffee Plantation Customer however, had found her camera and returned it to the Coffee Plantation coffee counter.
Surprised and overjoyed was the reaction of Anne when she heard we found her camera that she had lost the day before.
She made us this incredible creative card with on the back she wrote the story of her tale.

January 2009

THE STORY
I was fadin fast,
I went in for coffee.
They made me a new pot,
Delicious. I sat on the
porch. I left my camera sitting there.
I went away

NEXT DAY
Where is my Camera???
Omygod. looked everywhere. My last
thought, the Coffee Plantation
( No, Hopeless. It's gone.I am sad)
I go there anyway.YES!!
A customer had turned it in.
Wonderful Coffee House with
beautifull Customers. THANK YOU.
----THE END--- by Anne Strout

Homesick.....Not

2009-01-10T12:51:00.000-08:00

One of the reasons why I swapped my wonderful liberal life in Holland to the tropical life on our tropical island of Key West is the dutch cold winters.
The cold Holland winters that turn the landscape into a living winter wonderland.
Do I miss it.... hell yeah, I would love to tie on my wooden shoe ice skates just for that one day. Skate through that picturesque landscape with the windmills and dikes....
Just for one day though, check out this picture.

People skate on frozen canals in Kinderdijk's Mill Area, a UNESCO World Heritage site, near Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Kinderdijk is a good example of an area where water management is carefully organized in the low countries with a system of mills and waterways.

Beautiful Isn't it, it's about 74 degrees on our Coffee Plantation front porch today.

A Brand New Year

2009-01-03T17:13:00.000-08:00

This week has been something else. If this is a sign on how 2009 is going to be.
We got a year coming....
This week is known to be "Hell Week" here in Key West.
People flying, driving, sailing and hitchhiking onto our Island for the holidays and our world famous New Years Eve celebration.
To much fun.... a great time for everyone. The town is packed with people.
All kinds of people... looks like our homeless population has doubled over the last few weeks.
Today at one point our "Iced Costa Rica Reserve House Brew Coffee fan" Larry noticed one of the misfortunate Key West resident setting up camp under the Coffee Plantation front porch...
The name has been changed to protect the innocence (except for Larry), so we will call him Charlie, Charlie decided to use our world famous comfortable front porch, as the roof of his key West apartment. Charlie had moved in a few day's ago and this afternoon Charlie decided to move in a window unit air conditioner to make the hot steamy Key West nights a bit more comfortable in his new found Key West pad.....

That's when we draw the line. This is even to much for the world famous hospitality rules of the Coffee Plantation hospitality handbook.

That's when Theo grabbed the damn Air conditioner unit from underneath our damn comfie front porch and lifted the damn thing on top of his head so he could get the damn thing passed the damn fire hydrant so he could cross the damn street to throw the damn thing in front of this damn bum and tell him to never show his damn face around our damn world famous coffee house ever again....

I need a espresso...a double

Happy Holidays...

2008-12-12T18:23:00.001-08:00

Happy Holidays from the

Coffee Plantation Barista's

Another Key West Project

2008-12-04T09:47:00.001-08:00

Community garden proposed for stalled development site

By MANDY BOLEN Citizen Staff

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Construction of the Harbor House luxury condominium development has been stalled for some time. One model town house stands alone on the site of the former Jabour's Trailer Court, now a city block of cleared waterfront property. A sales trailer for the 32 planned town houses recently was removed from the area and all 32 units still are listed for sale, according to the Web site for KeysCaribbean, which is developing the property for a business partnership called Caroline Street Partners.

"We're just working through the times, like everyone else," said Realtor Ralph Sanchez, who heads the sales team for Harbor House.

The company, founded by native Key Westers, bought the old RV park in 2004 for about $20 million, and then spent another $3 million on the adjacent Veterans of Foreign War clubhouse on Elizabeth Street.

The neighbors' view has been an 8-foot-tall construction wall for more than a year, and one Caroline Street business owner has an innovative, if not idealistic, vision for the barren area.

Theo Glorie, who owns the Coffee Plantation, wants to create a temporary neighborhood beautification project there in the form of a community garden. He envisions raised wooden planters that could be removed within 30 or 60 days when construction resumes or when the property is sold.

Glorie does not want to imitate the existing community garden behind May Sands School, where members pay an annual fee to rent garden plots.

"It includes themed garden beds, as well as a large common area," he said, likening part of the space to one of the Keys Energy Services pocket parks around town. A green oasis in the middle of an urban area could feature benches, a fountain and a variety of plants, he said.

Glorie, who spearheaded efforts to preserve the Schooner Western Union and organized a volunteer cleanup of Wisteria Island, plans to approach the developers with the idea, and already has mentioned it to City Commissioner Bill Verge, whose district includes the property.

"The goal of the garden is to make creative use of blighted land" in the area bounded by Caroline, William and Elizabeth streets, Glorie said. "Otherwise, with this economy, we're going to be looking at construction walls for another five years or so."

Sanchez had not heard of the idea until Wednesday, when The Citizen called him for comment, but said he happily would put Glorie in touch with KeysCaribbean executives to ensure he speaks with the right people.

"Of course, I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm sure we'd be open to talking to them about anything that would help the community," Sanchez said.

Verge has concerns about liability and insurance, and said he wants to see the city of Key West acquire the property as a site for work-force housing.

As of now, the property is not listed for sale, and still is owned by Caroline Street Partners, according to Monroe County property records.

Craig Hunt, CEO of KeysCaribbean, could not be reached for comment about the future of Harbor House and the possibility of what Glorie calls "an urban oasis."

For more information, or to become involved in the garden project proposal, call Glorie at 305-304-9438 or e-mail him at theoglorie@yahoo.com.

mbolen@keysnews.com

Watching Turtles...

2008-11-06T11:04:00.000-08:00

For a few months now Ritchie, our Coffee Plantation neighbor and biggest fan of our decaf soy latte, has been telling us his incredible stories of Turtle rescues and Turtle rehabilitation's at his Marathon Turtle Hospital.
Ritchie also invited us to visit his Turtle Hospital and we found an fantastic organization.
The Turtle Hospital Ritchie started, is a non for profit organization that operates and stays afloat from donations and "Turtle Hospitals Tours" given by the well informed staff of the Hospital.
This week the Turtles risk of being hit by boat traffic increased due to the World Championship Power Boat races, a annual event that brings a lot of power boat enthusiastics to our island of Key West. A phenomenal event with a wide variety of incredible powerboats.
For the safety of our local sea life the powerboat officials call in the sea life expertise of Ritchie to ensure that no harm is done to our Turtles, Manatee's, Dolphin's and other creatures that call our ocean waters home.
For this job a helicopter is needed to spot the active sea life, and findings are reported to the race officials who either delay the start of the race, or even stop the race until the track is clear.
Diane and I were invited to be the "Spotters" on board the helicopter...
This is one of the coolest things we have ever done...
We even rescued a injured turtle before the race started...
Thank you, Gee, our helicopter pilot, Bette, from the Dolphin research center and our Ritchie...
Just imagine... hoovering for three hours above at least twenty power boats during their race while looking out for turtles and other sea life.
Wow... what a ride... thanks Ritchie, from now on November 5th is Ritchie day at the Coffee Plantation.

Coffee talk

2008-10-31T05:55:00.000-07:00

You might not think there would be much of a connection between the best coffee house in Key West and the newest kayak company on the island, but you’d be wrong. Back in February of this year (08), Theo and Diane hosted a good friend of theirs from Charleston, S.C. His name was Country Lee and he loved Key West. He loved Key West so much that he wanted to live here for ever and start his own business. After looking all around the island and all the different kind of things you could do here, business-wise, Lee decided kayaking was to be his life calling. He loved it and could think of nothing better to do than spend his days on the water here in the Keys.

Fortunately for Lee, Theo knew Joe and Scott, who ownes Almost There charters at the Cow Key Marina on Stock Island and were looking for someone to operate a kayak tour concession. Thus was born the Key West Kayak Company. Research was done, kayaks were ordered and scheduled to be delivered June 1^st. Unfortunately, Country Lee changed his mind about his life calling and went back to Carolina on May 28^th.

So what did Theo do? He talked to his friends and regulars at The Coffee Plantation and enlisted their help. Jim, a former kayaking guide has come out of retirement to once again do an awesome nature tour. Gretchen jumped on board to also be guides. Ray, a former tour guide at the Hemingway Home and currently a tour guide for the Original Ghost Tours of Key West (and your humble author of this blog piece) thought it would be great fun to take people into the mangroves and tell stories. In addition, Theo, Joe and Scott have their own experiences to draw from when they give tours.

Powered by Coffee Plantation con leches and lattes, this group has been exploring the near shore waters and mangroves ever since. Our kayaks are very shallow draft, allowing us to get into places no other boats can go. Paddling quietly along, we are less likely to scare off wildlife. We see many different fish and birds and things up close and personal. You never know what you will see on any given trip, but we have seen several types of sharks, spotted rays, stingrays, starfish, grunt, grouper, yellowtail, lobsters and horseshoe crabs.

At only $35 per person, we are also very affordable. You can visit our Key West Kayaks website by clicking on this LINK

See you soon, on the water!

I told you I wanted decaf...

2008-10-17T07:53:00.000-07:00

Family affair

2008-10-13T13:23:00.000-07:00

For five years Diane's sister Loretta has been working very hard to make her dream to become a pastry chef a reality. After working a full time job as a secretary she went to Stratford University Culinary school in Virginia to become a pastry chef.
She graduated as the best student of her class and promptly got picked up by Wegman's stores where she baked all their pastries and fun foods.
Her heart however was more interested in becoming the baker at a small coffee shop.
She was dreaming of making brownies and cup cakes under the watch full eye of eager customers drooling on the fantastic smell that would come out of her oven.
Well...
Today is the day, as my friend Mel would say. The Coffee Plantation team stuck their heads together and we are proud and very happy to announce that we could make Loretta's dream come true.
Loretta quit here job and moved to Key West...and boy is she good.
Our regulars are already falling in love with her, Hummingbird cake, Brownies, yummy...
Come by the Coffee Plantation and check it out... you won't be disappointed.

A call for change

2008-10-12T05:52:00.000-07:00

One of the most fantastic advantages of being the owner of a coffee shop here on our tropical island Key west, is that we get to talk to local people of all walks of life.
Everyone of our customers has their own idea how to make our town a better place.
I would like to start a conversation on our blog with fresh ideas without politics, because there is one thing that all of our loyal coffee drinkers have in common and that is that they all feel that our local government is out of touch with the needs of our community.
No, we don't need a water park, no, we don't need a 16 story hotel at the airport, and no, we sure don't need a 400 room resort on stock island under the assumption that it would be a hurricane shelter in times of need and this is just too name a few...

What if we had a clean slate, what if the people of Key West can design their own town?
What would it be like?
A old town Key West with electric cars only... no exceptions...
All power lines underground...
All old town streets paved in cobble stone...

I, for one, would love to kick off this project and make Key West a sample town for the rest of the country...

Is it...

2008-10-02T09:03:00.000-07:00

While the whole world media is focusing on the great state of Arizona in search for any Sarah Palin sightings we here at the Coffee Plantation in sunny Key West are wondering who this lady is...
She is studying the whole day...
Besides sipping her iced Cafe Late and munching on a smoked fish salad with pita she is searching the internet for information.
Is it... could this be Sarah...

Maybe because you can see Cuba from here....
You be the judge

Tough down...

2008-10-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

No fear... just a waterspout.
In some parts of the world, waterspouts are a common sight. These twisting funnels of water are technically known as "convective vortices" and are similar to dust devils, which form over land. Most of the time, waterspouts occur on bodies of water with high surface temperatures, usually in tropical regions, larger forms include both tornadoes and hurricanes. The big spouts may generate vortexes of 100 mph or higher (160+ km/h). In the ocean around the Florida Keys, as many as 500 waterspouts form every summer, some of them of the larger variety.
This waterspout got very close to the Coffee Plantation, so close that all of our Coffee shop customers ran outside to see this incredible sight of nature.
How cool is that....

The town is roaring

2008-09-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

Thirty-six years ago, Phil Peterson came up with the idea of a poker run to boost the motorcycle business, and the Key West tourist trade during the slow September season. What started with 46 riders has grown to become South Florida's biggest motorcycle party weekend of the year. Today, more than 10,000 riders from all over the U.S. enjoy this event. They rumble from Miami to Key West, enjoying the sunshine, ocean breezes, and riding on the many bridges that cross over the beautiful turquoise water.

Along the way, they make five stops and draw a card at each stop. The winner is the lucky rider who draws the best hand. This year, if you draw one of the top ten hands, you get a chance to play one round of Texas Hold’em at The Guy Harvey Bar & Grill, located on Greene Street, across from Sloppy Joes. The Round will begin Saturday Night at 11:00 p.m., featuring a winner take all, a large cafe latte from the Coffee Plantation and a brand new Sportster 1200 Custom! The City of Key West blocks off an eight-block area of Duval Street. A bike show is held in front of Rick’s/ Durty Harry’s and Sloppy Joe’s Bar on Saturday. Locals, tourists, and bikers all enjoy the sights and sounds of this mini-Mardi Gras with its carnival atmosphere.

Just another beautiful day on our island.

Green Parrot's bocce dreams crushed

2008-09-18T06:56:00.000-07:00

The Bocce team of the Green Parrot bar of Key West is the team to beat in this fall season of the southern most Bocce league. The team was undefeated so far in the competition and are doing very well in there quest to become the southern most Bocce champs. Last night looked like they where continuing there winning streak on the Wednesday night pre playoff qualification games. The first match of the evening the "Green Parrot" team mastered the game, the second match was no different. There combined 100 year+ experience in the game gave them the comfortable edge on their opponents. But it ain't over until the fat lady sings....
It must have been the negativity from the "Green Parrot" players that pissed us of....
We got mad.......
The Coffee Plantations Bocce team the "Java Junkies" strikes back. Lets get them, our team captain "On Top of the Polina Tom" said.
A new strategy got implemented, we placed this years rookie and bocce surprise of the year "Caffeine Larry" in the game. We had "On top of the Polina Tom" take charge as the coach and in charge of the last game of the night. Teaming up with "Caffeine Larry" was our own "Dee the Iceman". On the opposite site "Juggling Jason" and "Dynamite Theo".
It was fantastic... our team played concentrated, fought and won.
The crowed was roaring....
The team of the "Green Parrot" cried and left the Bocce courts like a bunch of green chickens.
The Java Junkies... a team to watch this Bocce season....

Outrageous

2008-09-15T10:34:00.000-07:00

The latest attempt from County Mayor Mario Di Gennaro to memorialize his legacy as the Monroe County Mayor is this 76 story "Di Gennaro Tower"
This piece of architectural ingeniousness is a design by Mayor Mario's cousin, and will be build by his nieces husband. The location for this project is going to be the Key West graveyard, Mayor Mario Di Gennaro believes that we can move the grave yard sites to new town because most of the family members of the deceased have left the Island anyway.
Mayor Morgan Mc Pherson of Key West is ecstatic about this idea and promptly handed a $150.00 check for a nights deposit on the honeymoon suite to Mayor Mario. The honeymoon suite named after famed Key West publicist Tom Oosterhoudt wil be named the "Oosterhoudt Honeymoon Suite" and will be designed after famed Las Vegas piano player Liberace. The 2700 square feet penthouse condo features a red heart shaped king size bed and pink Sicilian marble throughout.
The project will be funded by taxpayers money but the Mayor explains that the room tax revenue will pay back the tax payers as soon as possible.
The building will feature five swimming pools, sixteen restaurants, 12 tennis courts, and a rotating view deck where you can see Havana Cuba on a clear day.
Our customers here at the Coffee Plantation have mixed feelings in regards to the Mayors plan....