Originally Posted by crockett

The Hurricanes and dumb dumbs are what killed Daytona Beach.. That year there were 3 hurricanes in a row to hit that area. The dumb dumb local govt had a hard on for trying to turn DB into a retirement version of South Beach..

When the hurricanes hit, they condemned all the tourist trap stores, beach side hotels ect..ect.. Their big plan was to have investors come in to steal up the condemned properties cheap or using eminent domain to steal them.. Then build shitloads of condos..

All was going to plan until the Bush housing market crash happened and all the investors and buyers went bye bye.. What was left was a bunch of half destroyed buildings with a town that looked like it belonged in a 3rd world country, who had run away all it's big tourism events..