‘Ugly’ 7MB wall directed by CPA
(CNS): The wall being erected along the side of the Seven Mile Public Beach as part of the enhancement project, which has caused a huge stir on social media, was directed by the Central Planning Authority, according to the minutes from the meeting when the application for the project was granted. The wall, which many people say is ugly and that it blocks the views of the beach, was originally meant to be around two feet, but the government was directed by the CPA to build it higher.
The enhancement project at Seven Mile Beach is being done by the Dart Group. It is one of the remaining commitments the islands’ largest investor made to the government as part of the controversial NRA agreement that led to it securing the closure of the West Bay Road. As a result, the planning application was made by government, which had intended to erect a two-foot crash barrier wall in accordance with the NRA regulations.
However, the increase in the height of wall was a CPA decision.
According to the minutes from the CPA meeting in March 2018, when the government was given planning permission for the project, the authority insisted that the wall be increased to five feet, despite the NRA’s objections and the requirements of the traffic law.
It appears that the requirement was based on concerns by the CPA that people getting off buses on the West Bay Road would be able to stride over a two-foot wall.
During the hearing, where government, representatives from the Dart Group and objectors from nearby condos attended, the CPA said the wall was too small to meet the objective, which was to prevent people from crossing into the public beach from the side of the road. The sidewalk was originally meant to be on the inside, with the aim of protecting people from traffic, but the CPA also asked for it to be placed along the roadside.
Now that the project is nearing competition, it has become apparent that the wall is blocking any remaining views of the beach. However, it is expected to be clad with decorative stone, which may make it less ‘ugly’ than people find it at present.
On social media the call went out to tear down the wall, and people wanted to know how it could ever have been approved by planning. However, the minutes make it clear that the wall was not only approved by the CPA but the board actually demanded it. Some West Bay constituents, especially those in Tara Rivers’ district, want MLAs to step in and use their power to get the wall removed and replaced with something more natural and attractive.
Dart, which is doing the $3 million job, has been blamed for the ugly wall but in a comment to The Cayman Compass earlier this week, the group said the design features were built to specifications supplied by government in consultation with the Central Planning Authority and the National Roads Authority.
CNS has reached out to the various government officials in the Ministry of Planning, which is overseeing the project, and we are awaiting a response.
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Please read the previous article that has many fewer comments but is so much more important. What happens when a government that allowed this wall is no longer held in check by Mother on matters of much greater importance?
Get a life people….
I am against the wall. When I am on the public beach I can no longer see the nice traffic on West Bay Road. This can be fixed by putting more sand on the beach.
It is unfortunate my last submitted comment did not post. The details included my general concern for the Cayman public’s interest. In the Cayman community there is concern for the route this place it headed. There maybe a vast majority of people on island objecting against these projects, that are often pre-planned. I share in your concerns, for I am also a citizen who has a vision and interest in the authenticity of this place I call home. We all form one body to share our concerns and opinions. There should be more general public meetings held for individuals who get the memo on these vital project installments. The people need a voice.
CNS: Your previous comment is posted.
Under which specific section is there a wall prescribed in any version of NRA agreement…I’ll wait. XXXX
Many comments I have read match the same interest and I share in your grief. We are all concerned with whats happening on this island. There is this back and forth hassle that seems to persist with no effective relief and creates this never ceasing complain from the general public interest. I stand to say I will pray the people who genuinely care about this island authenticity, classical attraction and much more its environment, need their voices heard!
I can’t wait for the excuse in court, why a young man hit the wall. “Your honor the young tourist girl was wearing a tong and walking very provocatively and it caught my eye and I hit the wall”
The Wall will stop honda civics from crashing into the beach.
Will the Mexicans get over it.
It shields the southern edge of a parking lot, hundreds of feet from the beach…but more importantly, blocks northbound headlights from the sight-lines for rooms in the developer’s hotel.
I think you mean the Condos not the hotel. However the condos are so far away they will see headlights unless they on ground floor. Oh I forgot the ground floor is on the second floor. Silly me.
Can someone sponsor Arkadiy Gershman to visit Cayman and give you an earful?? For the past six years he has been promoting a healthy attitude towards the cities and towns. He is not an architect, so he won’t tell you about the choice of materials or different styles of architecture, but he’ll tell you about the correct urban planning policy, what a street should be and how to make a park without attracting drug addicts and alcoholics. He has traveled the world extensively focusing on roads designs and safety. He has nearly 100 youtube videos that evaluate roads designs, pedestrian safety all over the world.
Here is a link to interview with Arkadiy Gershman.
Arkady Gershman: “Putting the historical heritage in order brings more profit to the city than new buildings”.
Source : https://realnoevremya.com/articles/3754-interview-with-urbanist-arkady-gershman-about-kazan-and-russia
“Sometimes it is just subjectivity when some specific decisions are taken not by specialists — architects and designers, but officials themselves, although they do not have the competence. For this reason, we get very second-rate solutions.
“There were times, when fences simply killed people”
Do you agree that the number of fences in Russian cities is reaching the point of absurdity?
…if you look, for example, at the studies conducted in London, they say that fences cause more problems than advantages….fences make fast driving very attractive, which greatly increases the accident rate.
Officials and traffic cops are just performers who can’t subject to the critical analysis what they do as the works are carried out within the developed state standards. This is the executive branch, which is not focused on solving problems. In this regard, fences have become a very good tool for reporting: the more we install barriers per year, the better we work.”
Sounds familiar?
Give our drivers a few months and they will soon demolish the “Berlin”wall.
“Tear down this wall!”
Did Dart just close the road next to the Ritz to turn it into a parking lot? Isn’t this public property?
No and no.
so why is the road closed and very official NRA no left turn signs have been installed on the bypass?
It is a private road. Not really needed over there anyway.
I think that was just while a big conference was on at the Ritz.
it’s a private road and it’s going to be open again in April next year according to the notice in the paper
Temporary Conference Parking maybe. All Dragon Bay roads are private (hence not maintained), never Gazetted as public roads. Dart owns the adjacent lots as part of Dragon Bay. They acquired this freehold title in 2016, over 220 acres of prime hotel tourism land mid SMB, for just $10mln plus road commitments…this is also in NRA agreement.
And if I allowed my yard to gather the amount of garbage that his properties do in this area people in my street would complain like crazy. Doesn’t he have enough staff who can clean up his properties? And the trees overhanging the road at the back of the Ritz ought to be better maintained – they are a liability for anyone needing to use the hard shoulder.
Place your bets……how long until a car takes part of the wall out???😂
It won’t be taken out by a car, not with the amount of steel and concrete that went into building it. Maybe by a loaded dump truck, but not by a car.
A motor cycle can easily go over it. Check The Great Escape.
Throwing millions left and right as if money grows on trees. This fence, just like “birdhouses”, were needed as a dog needs a fifth leg. No master plans of any kind, no strategies, no vision, no consultation with members of public, just haphazard spending on a whim. Home grown jacks’ of all trades designs uglify the island further.
all starts with CIG allowing the transformation of a once beautiful, serene, public beach into a gong show
Damn but you people can complain about everything!
Why do you need a crash wall in a 25 mph zone ?
The locals do not follow any traffic laws and they love driving into walls and telephone poles.
What do you expect when the walls and telephone poles refused to stay stationary but instead randomly jump out at passing cars??
The illegal and unpermitted wall that planning dept. said has to be knocked down at the Frank Sound dock is still there a year later. XXXX Planning dept is so third world. Just like the Government.
The wall has been cut back, beach cleared and they’re building on the plot now. Had caterpillars right up to the waterline. Dock car park always full of builders cars. Very difficult to manoeuvre boat trailers and trucks. A real mess. That land either side of the dock should have been bought by government and declared public beach since time.
That tunnel should have never been approved on West Bay Road. It has completely ruined Seven Mile area. Shame on those who allowed it!
I’d wait on complaining about that, you do realize that there will be a large 5 star hotel built on top of that eventually right? Its not there for just a random pathway.
Didn’t that recently change to Darts twin towers or am I imagining that?
The tunnel would have never been built if we had enough honest politicians.
Honest politician is an oxymoron
There should be a moratorium on all new PLA considerations for Dart et al companies as a developer, until they honor all parts of NRA agreement, and address the eyesore that is old Hyatt hotel. Ivan was 15 years ago. Dart can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, and they don’t want to hire/whip more employees than they can handle…which is clearly a very finite number these days.
Cayman used to be serene and beautiful. Now just a bunch of urban cement for a view. Started with the Kimpton towers, add the 7MB tunnel, the “cement highways “ and now the cement wall blocking the sea. The peaceful vibe is long gone.
This CPA NEEDS TO GO! They have been there way too long making decisions which take absolutely no consideration of Cayman. There is no direction. They are granting anything, anyone, anywhere, the right to do whatever they want. It’s incredible to see some of the s**t that is being approved. Totally wrong!
It’s all about money!
CPA is a cancer in the CIG.
If it is for safety, why is the sidewalk on the outside? Doesn’t make sense…
for real
There’s one right behind it which connects the parking lot to the vendor area. Likely to see heavy foot traffic once vendors open shop in their designated spot.
First step towards “privatising” the beach. Wait for it…….
I agree. First they will contract the management out to a private company for efficiency, then they will sell the franchise to a private operator to reduce government expenditure and raise revenue from the private operator. Then some bright politician will sell it the first time we have a serious economic downturn, to raise funds for something that is essential.
The MLAs won’t do a thing if Dart has anything to do with it! Did you forget Dart basically has CIG on their knees?? Soon we’ll be known as the ‘Caribbean’s Dubai’… oh how I miss how this island once was 🙁
Not third world enough for you?
This walk is so pointless and unsightly, but if it to control pedestrians flow into the beach we should also install a 5 foot wall all along smith cove barcadere. Let see if the “board” would approve that 🤣
Its there to keep the yardies from driving up over the beach.
No, this wall is perpendicular to beachfront extending East to West and does nothing to address that. The wall is to block northbound headlights for Kimpton hotel/residences, on direction from Dart, XXXXX. There is no wall of any height in the NRA agreement.
Just put some nice custom art on it.
I want my view of the sea back. It was the last one I had.
I cannot believe there is so many people who complain about nothing. Why don’t you all complain about how some people keep their houses in West Bay? How there is no sidewalks in West Bay? How about the drug addicts who are constantly begging for a dollar, or a beer? Why don’t we fix that instead of a barrier wall that obviously was built to protect people who are walking down to the beach.
been done, complaints made, no action taken – just like everything else.
new issue, new complaint, possibility of people’s voices being heard.
Those things aren’t lucrative enough.
Curious, have there been many instances of people on the beach being knocked down by cars coming off West Bay Road?
“the CPA said the wall was too small to meet the objective, which was to prevent people from crossing into the public beach from the side of the road”
What is wrong with allowing people to cross into the public beach from the side of the road?
Exactly!
Unless you are about to start selling access to the beach?
CPA changed it from 2 feet to 5 feet? does anyone on the board have an interest in the concrete production I wonder?
There is no wall agreed in any version of the NRA agreement. The ACC needs to dig into Dart’s claim, and root out the bad actors on both sides.
Or, you could just read the Minutes posted on the worldwide web from the CPA meetings in question….
Why in the world to instal ANY fences ANYWHERE on the island surrounded by sea? What purpose do they serve?
What purpose?………….. MONEY!
Keeping the rest of us out.
It will look even better once the graffiti is spray painted on it.
The ugliest thing in Cayman…? So many Trump jokes…but really…since people don’t have a voice and it will end up staying there, can we at least get the artist who does beautiful work on the building at the waterfront/camana bay to fill it with artwork?
Typical of private sector board members. All of these decisions should be made by trained civil servants. Disband the CPA.
…’trained civil servants’… now that’s a real oxymoron. I’ve had to wipe the tears from my eyes twice now I’m laughing so hard!
Agreed
Why? Spraying a pile of $hit with pine tree air freshener only makes it a pine tree smelling pile of $hit.
Besides, who is going to pay for another ”beautification”?
People had no voice, but now they realized unless their voice is heard , the uglificators on payroll would turn the island into a land of freak designs, constructions, roads etc.
The big problem I can see is if we ever had a repeat of Ivan the storm surge over that wall is going to be pretty interesting. It won’t stop it but it will trap it and make the flooding worse.
If, as has been argued in a previous comment, it’s a safety barrier it doesn’t need to be solid – you can use steel barriers and that would have been the sensible option.
Many European countries don’t use safety barriers along its cities roads anymore, because it add zero safety.
Take Sweden. Road safety in Sweden follows a basic concept: human beings are flawed.
Following that belief, Swedish Transport planners have squarely put the responsibility for road safety on designers.
It’s working. Today, Sweden has among the safest streets on the planet.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-23/these-americans-want-behave-more-swedish-road
Watch this video. Do you see safety barriers on Stockholm streets?
Stockholm: Healthy City – Healthy People.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSzOWJsoTBg&list=PLGt0veX7W_u0Cs8kYCvorc4U8kVRdor6N&index=34&t=0s
Delft: why they have no problems with nerves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0xfhgrJ-A&list=PLGt0veX7W_u0Cs8kYCvorc4U8kVRdor6N&index=10&t=604s
There are no fences along Amsterdam canals. Nobody falls down into canals.
More stupid people here per capita.Factor that in.
You must be kidding about making the flooding worse. Surely the CPA has accounted for any flood damage and spent thousands on consultants to determine the best way to drain the flood waters. Perhaps the same consultants from Clifton Hunter?They would never let the people of Cayman down, would they? All hail the brain trust at the CIG!
Safety barriers – despite their name – can themselves constitute a hazard. All reasonable steps should be taken to eliminate the need for safety barriers through the use of good design and construction practice.
Barriers should not be installed only because vehicles are running off the road, or have the potential to run off the road.
Was road safety audit conducted before another concrete wall was approved?
But the main question is: what purpose this concrete wall serves? Why plant hedges weren’t considered if someone professional justified the absolute need for the barrier? Plants reduce noise and absorb road pollution.
Dart is not really strong on environmental matters and sustainable development. They obviously have zero understanding about storm surges.
Ugh….again… read the article…ITS NOT DART… its the CPA. Dart tried to change the wall.
Wonder if the National Housing Trust can speak to how many budget homes this $3 million could have built for needy families!!!!
Morons in Cabinet are ultimately responsible!!
Morons at CPA! Morons at NRA to not object to moronic CPA directives! Why in the world would buses stop on the corner to unload passengers?! And what’s with preventing people from accessing the public beach over the two-foot wall? It’s the public beach for goodness sake!!
Reminds me of when CPA directed C&W to paint all their cell towers green and install fake palm fronds so as to make them blend in with the environment !! Towers are supposed to be painted alternate bands of aviation orange and white – specifically so that they stand out from the environment, as they are aviation hazards. If CPA had had their way perhaps MRCU would have had to replace planes and pilots by now!!
Morons in charge!!
Morons driving buses stop for passengers on that corner more frequently than you think! ALL THE TIME in fact. And when a moron driving drunk or texting jumps the wall, then you all be the first to say it should have been higher. Want a view of sea…go to the beach! Besides, Dart gonna put rock over it (Like on ETH) and it’ll be fine. Stop complaining about everything!
Road safety in Sweden follows a basic concept: human beings are flawed.
Following that belief, Swedish Transport planners have squarely put the responsibility for road safety on DESIGNERS.
It’s working. Today, Sweden has among the safest streets on the planet.
Morons driving the buses.
@3:29 agree with your points except for one. The article states “despite the NRA’s objections”.
“Some West Bay constituents, especially those in Tara Rivers’ district, want MLAs to step in and use their power to get the wall removed and replaced with something more natural and attractive.” They want WB MLA’s to step in and tell Unkie Dart to take the wall down?? LOL RIGHT, I’ll sit here and hold my breath on that.
DART RULES!!!!! (The CIG)
There’s somebody here that paints wonderful murals. Could he not decorate the wall with portraits of all the CPA members in an ocean setting, with palm trees and casuarinas. This would make it a lot less hideous and at the same time remind us all of who was responsible for this monstrosity.
I would like to like this a million times. It’s good to see who is responsible for stupid decisions and please add the morons who put them in those positions.
Lol, remove the freaking wall and see the ocean. No need to paint the ocean on a concrete, prison like, wall.
There is no ocean there.
Tunnel still ugly and totally stupid in the first place
Tunnel is the foundation to a massive hotel, not really just a tunnel….
I actually like the tunnel. Shade! In summer months the constant beating sunshine elsewhere is to me a pain. Truth.
Yeah. Somewhat shameful. We live In the land where they tear down trees and coral reef to lay down concrete.
The fun thing life is the people with all the say are not even from here. Caymanians we need to take back our country before it isn’t anything left for our children. For those that are caymanian when the money finish and you don’t have anything else to sell but yourself you will know what time it is . Without a vision the people perish😭
You’re joking right? You know Alden, McKeeva and their cronies (you know those guys who are unfortunately in government)? Yeah they be Caymanian and they are the ones selling our country to the highest bidder.
McKeeva sold us out when he passed the bill allowing foreigns to purchase cayamanian citizenship. And guess who was the first one in line and that received it… good ol’ mr ken dart. I knew from that moment on and I been saying it for years we are screwed. Anyone ever try to look-up good ol’ mr dart’s rap record (whats still out there in the interest that hasn’t been removed intentionally) or anything about him. GOOD LUCK, not even a photo yet he has sooo much power, esp in cayman. If people really knew his past (look-up what he did in Argentina – similar to what he’s doing in cayman now) Caymanians would think twice about allowing him so much influence in cayman.
I think you are deliberately hiding your level of intelligence and made this comment to create a response. It is hard to be this stupid, so you must be really smart.
Obviously smarter than you, Rick baby!
Me thinks you should spend some of your own money on spelling lessons.
Try reading the news first before you get on your I hate Dart wagon. Your ignorance is showing.
And you know who the members of the CPA are…..
Yeah, CPA is full of foreigners – like AL Thompson. And all the MLAs – all foreigners. Sigh.
Cayman is becoming a society of complainers … careful, the slippery slope… keep objecting to everything and eventually you’ll have country with nothing and nothing to object about …
Complain, complain, complain!!! And they do nothing about it!!! At least a few are doing something about the port!!
Yes. We are voting “NO”!
Complaining about complainers……
ironic and edgy. 😀
Bring on 2021. So sick of the selling out of Cayman’s beauty by those who should be trying to help maintain and enhance it.
Bring on 2021? Why? Do you HONESTLY believe anything will change? Why now? What cataclysmic event has happened that will make people sit up and take notice? And how many question marks can I get in one sentence?
Not surprised! For too long Government has deliberately delegated policy decisions on all development to the CPA. A body which is short on relevant expertise and long on conflicts of interest! Seven Mile Beach has been screwed up and left to themselves they will screw everything else up with their self interested motivations. It is laughable that in addition to typically ignoring sound science based advice from the National Conservation Council, they are also now ignoring the NRA! They should have to pay to restore this wall to the original proposed and NRA supported specifications! We don’t want to live in concrete canyons!
Im posting too many comments now. Let me hush
And we are to believe that preventing glare from headlights irritating persons in Kimpton is not a factor in the height of the wall? OK then….
Trees work best.
Why shouldn’t the public stride all they want into the purpose-built area being created for them? #Caymankind
What next, a 10 foot wall around Camana Bay?
Better make that wall around Camana Bay about 15 feet high….. with flood gates.
The much-suppressed and eternally delayed and altered detail of all four versions of the NRA Agreement, and government’s continuing failure to implement and shepherd it’s own operational commitments, remain perfect examples, highlighting the appalling negotiation, and failing reading and comprehension and implementation abilities of our current leaders, their ministries, and counsel. Pair that to the ongoing failure to enact SIPL and you have all the reasons why none of them can be trusted to negotiate large capex project contracts in the backrooms, behind curtains of non-disclosure or shortcut procurement.
Of course, this wall isn’t part of the deal at all. It’s not mentioned in any version. It was added later by the NRA committee that thought it best to prevent the PUBLIC from accessing a PUBLIC area. You can’t even make this up.
The public and media need to familiarize themselves with the entire 34 page document and take note of some of the shocking negotiation failures. Have a look at “Sunrise Adult Training Centre” §18-19, and what this regime did with the “Educational and Community Purposes Land” §20-21, the “Investment Commitment” of §22, and of course, the deadline-hinged waivers (which of course this regime failed to meet) which then reversed those promised commitments in DRCL’s favour by way of §40-41.
Ask yourself, who would present and sign this deal FOUR TIMES, and then have a look at the signature pages. Again, no public disclosure of the bi-weekly “Implementation Committee Minutes” since 2016 – that would be interesting reading too…if we had a transparent government willing to disclose conflicts and interests.
Dart I’m always struggling to convince others that you are a good investor but this wall is indefensible and anyone from your company that came up with this dumb idea should be fired.
CPA should all resign, too!
Walls are not welcome in the 21st Century either – it’s offensive and a relic of the past.
Please take down this wall!
“Walls are not welcome in the 21st Century either – it’s offensive and a relic of the past.”
Said someone who sleeps at night with walls protecting them.
Walls around a private home versus a wall around a public beach can’t be compared.
Ronald Caygan – “Mr Dartechov, tear down this wall!!!”
Oh yeah, take down the wall cry!! Same as the one by Frank Sound by the North Side cut-off road!!! Complain, complain, complain and nothing happened!!
Dart gonna buy up all the public beaches, can we just stop calling the private beaches public please?
If your privileged to own a home do you call your front or back yard public?
If my back or front yard is a beach, yes!
On the plus side, it blocks the view of West Bay more than it blocks the ocean view.
@2:07 on plus side, idiots like you live outside of West Bay!
walls ? Really man ? poor Cayman / ran by idiots all around her .
Come on you concrete idiots!! You call yourself “Community Planners?” nah, just Contractors back-pocket buddies. Such BS as I’ve ever heard.
Tear down that wall as a matter of principle and pride, and plant a GREEN Hedge!!! I’m a voter and CPA baffles me how they get away with this $hilt.
Hear this tree hugger. Lightpoles jump out in front of drivers here and the tourists take the wrong direction around roundabouts.
When someone runs that corner, hope your hedges protect you.
ARE PEOPLE LIVING ND VISITING CAYMAN EXCEPTIONALLY STUPID? According to you, they are.
If someone runs that corner, it is road designer’s fault!
Fernandez, do you want concrete walls for all roads? That will prevent a lot of damage to homes and businesses! EVERYBODY should like that…..(?)
There’s walkways right behind the wall. Are we all forgetting the one time someone ran that corner at 126 mph and an innocent person got killed?? I’d rather a drunk driver hit that wall than your family.
Swear unna find every and anything to complain about. Blocked view? What a joke. You can’t see the ocean from 90% of the road regardless due to buildings and trees!
Plus drivers shouldn’t be looking at the view. They should be concentrating on the road!
Idiot.
So we have to build a giant wall across the whole beach? Why not build it by the road?
3:13 what are you on about? They aren’t building it across the beach. It’s going to be on the road.. I think they could have used something nicer than a solid wall of concrete but it’s still not going through the beach
Where is that face-palm emoji
The irony gine be too much when Tara tears down that wall and someone else comes flying over that slight incline straight into where people walk from the parking lot to the beach.
For once I agree with you, whoever you are
It was late at night with no one out walking – the innocent victim was a willing passenger in the car – and its not as if people crash there routinely. More fundamentally, the NRA suggestion was halco steel barriers – 2 feet high and specifically designed for car impacts – not a 5ft high wall the blocks the view (and interestingly traps the pedestrians between the traffic and the wall – NOT between the pedestrians and the cars.
Wahh wahh change is bad keep it like the 60s
All unfinished walls are ugly. Remember all of the complaints about the unfinished tunnel. Now that is finished…not one single complaint.
You want to see something beautiful, wait till we build the piers. Everyone will be cramming to attend the opening.
Burt, what rock do you live under? “Not one single complaint”?? LOL I hear the same complaints from the beginning. Just because they are built does not mean the complaints stops. Nothing you can do about something that is already done.
You are just another troll.
Burt lives under Dart rock.
No they wont. They would be crying over the destruction of the environment and the death of our tourism product. Vote NO!
Are you kidding? It’s an unnecessary and hideously ugly eyesore. Why do we think we do a better job of making something beautiful? Even finished it is impossible for this wall to be more beautiful than a view of the beach, the ocean and our amazing sunsets.
I hate the tunnels. I spent a lot of time in the West Bay Road one stick in traffic. The lights are never all working and it’s position by the entrance to RPBC creates a real hazard with buses and taxis stopping and blocking the lanes. This is a complaint – and you won’t see me at the opening of the piers ‘cos it’s not going to happen!
Just because people adapt to change does not mean it is not harmful over time or in aggregate. There was at least a view of the sand and now even that is gone.
Burt even the tourists are complaining how the island has changed for the worst. All the concrete is an eye sore to the residents and tourists.
I’m a tourist and can’t stand how the island is looking now. Development is fine, but it should have to fit in to the “ surroundings”- blend in. Cayman is now looking harsh, cold, urban with all the cement structures. What happened to the island?
Yes Burt, the new 50 storey building will be beautiful too. You must enjoy your work with Dart.