density or sprawl...myself I think ddifferent strokes for different folks, New York is great but so is Ocala --people will gravitate to the economic engines of the world because that is where the jobs are--retirees can go anywhere

True, celebrate the gain. The gain of adding many more millionaires to the area. I can't help but wonder where the workers are going to live. The teachers, fire, police, service people. It will be beautiful, tall building blocking the sun on the parks. I like dark parks, more lighting, more money for Progress Energy, sounds good to me. What happens when the envisioned new Monaco of Florida falls flat? Does the fire department have the appropriate equipment to reach tall storied buildings? Does the police have the personel to handle the influx of multi millionaires that will want plenty of protection? What exactly does the city plan to do with the many many homeless that are on the city streets now? Surely the new millionaires moving in will not want their beautiful city cluttered with such sights. I can see St. Pete has real reason to be proud, multi story, multi million dollar buildings creating a beautiful skyline. One being built by Bush buddy Sempler, the man who has a vision. Too bad that vision did not extend to good restaurants at Baywalk. I'm not worried, I'm sure good restaurants will appear in the city eventually as soon as the city can get those old mom and pop ugly eyesores out of the way. Yep, I think St. Pete should be very proud.

When I was growing up South Beach was, well full of old folks and Cubans, now its all models and the New York set, with gentrification comes the upheaval of established communities--the question is how much should we allow goverment to interfere with the natural cycles of boom and bust?