Marriott Hotel on Madeira Beach: Are You in Favor?

A four-story, 90-room Courtyard Marriott to be built this spring in Madeira Beach near Johns Pass is a sign of burgeoning development in the area, TBO.com reports.

According to the news site:

The hotel is being built close to the Tom Stuart Causeway, near a recently opened Walgreens drugstore and Chase Bank branch. Across the bridge, developers also have plans for a new beachfront restaurant on Gulf Boulevard that could open by the end of the year and a 12-unit condominium that would replace an aging hotel.

"Just looking at Madeira Beach, you kind of get that feeling that things were getting ready to change," Mayor Travis Palladeno told TBO. "Things were going to open up a little bit."

So, Patch wants to know: What do you think of all the development? Is it too much, or long overdue? What will it mean for the people of Madeira Beach?

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