PROJECT FACTS

H.O.R.I.Z.O.N.

WILL…

  • Protect our quality of life by preserving easy access to our free beaches

  • Restore our municipal golf course and protect it from future sea-level rise.

  • Ensure our municipal golf course remains public with local resident fees kept low.

  • Provide a permanent more centrally relocated home for our historic Lake Worth Beach swimming pool.

  • Open a new large ocean front Lake Worth Beach community park.

  • Create greater and easier access to our ocean front via water taxi from our downtown.

  • Provide Lake Worth Beach with a new eco-trail feature for kayaks and canoes.

  • Repair and preserve our existing historic beachfront Casino.

  • Preserve our historic ocean fishing pier.

  • Create a more pedestrian friendly oceanfront promenade for everyone to enjoy.

  • Use new tourism income and visitor taxes, not Lake Worth Beach resident taxes.

  • Provide much needed funding for city-wide road repair, infrastructure and stormwater upgrades, and neighborhood improvements. Which will be paid for from tourist pocketbooks, not Lake Worth Beach resident pocketbooks.

  • Allow Lake Worth Beach to maintain ownership of all city land and property.

  • Only be leasing city-owned land.

  • No longer have Lake Worth Beach spend tax dollars to maintain the ocean front property or the upkeep of the municipal golf course.

  • Pay the city of Lake Worth Beach a large, to be determined, annual lease payment for the city to use on behalf of the residents.     

  • There will be absolutely no cost to residents or businesses. Horizon is fully financing all aspects of the oceanfront development, including the new parking the 5-acre park, the pedestrian promenade, the canoe and kayak launch area, as well as the many other improvements and upgrades to the oceanfront area. Instead of a "cost", Horizon will generate significant tax revenue for use of the  city. Importantly, the land will remain in City ownership permanently. 

  • Absolutely not. Horizon is fully covering the costs of all sea-level rise protections and golf course renovations, which will be designed by Jack Nicklaus. The necessary funding for these improvements will come from the revenues generated by the Hyatt golf course hotel.

  • Absolutely not!! The current condition of the City's golf course is poor needing a major renovation. Before renovating the golf course, the course must become resilient and hardened against the chronic flooding resulting from sea-level rise. To fund the significant investment required for these resiliency upgrades and renovations, the Horizon project is proposing a development of a hotel at the south end of the golf course, across from the historic Gulfstream hotel. This hotel will provide the revenue necessary to restore and modernize the golf course, ensuring it will can remain a municipal golf course open to the public.

    To fund the significant investment required for these resiliency upgrades and renovations, the Horizon Project proposes the development of a downtown Hyatt Hotel at the south end of the golf course, across from the historic Gulfstream Hotel. This hotel would provide the revenue necessary to restore and modernize the golf course, ensuring it remains a municipal facility open and accessible to the public at all times.

    Funds currently earmarked by the City to go towards the construction of a new swimming pool can be redirected to fund other City needs.

  • As part of the Horizon Project, a brand-new water recreation facility—including an Olympic-size municipal swimming pool—is planned. Horizon has proposed locating the facility in the northwest neighborhoods of Lake Worth Beach, adjacent to the City’s baseball fields. However, the final decision on the location will be made by the City Commission.

    Importantly, Horizon will fully fund the construction of the entire water recreation facility at no cost to the City. This means that funds currently allocated by the City for a new swimming pool can be redirected to support other community priorities.

    To fund the significant investment required for these resiliency upgrades and renovations, the Horizon Project proposes the development of a downtown Hyatt Hotel at the south end of the golf course, across from the historic Gulfstream Hotel. This hotel would provide the revenue necessary to restore and modernize the golf course, ensuring it remains a municipal facility open and accessible to the public at all times.

    Funds currently earmarked by the City to go towards the construction of a new swimming pool can be redirected to fund other City needs.