MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A once-luxurious Miami Seaside lodge that hosted the Beatles and President John F. Kennedy throughout its Nineteen Sixties heyday was imploded Sunday after falling into disrepair and abandonment lately.
The 17-story Deauville Lodge fell into itself after a sequence of explosions had been set off, sending up a big cloud of mud. The lodge was in-built 1957 and Kennedy spoke there to the Younger Democrats Conference in 1961.
The Beatles carried out there in 1964, recording six songs for “The Ed Sullivan Present,” drawing an estimated tv viewers of 70 million folks. Celebrities corresponding to Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and Sammy Davis Jr. carried out there.
The property fell into disrepair over time and was closed in 2017 after {an electrical} fireplace. Miami Seaside officers and the household that owned the lodge sparred over tens of millions of {dollars} in fines for varied code violations.
It’s unclear what’s going to now occur with the lot.
Miami Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross, a billionaire New York developer, wished to purchase the property and construct a 350-foot-tall lodge and apartment tower, however that plan is in limbo. The world has a 200-foot peak restrict and a metropolis poll measure that might have allowed the development failed Tuesday.
Metropolis officers say Ross should be considering buying the lot if an alternate plan may be labored out.
