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The case for Carver $900,000 Carver Center renovation project PAGE 6

Flagler’s Nehemiah Gilyard, 18, remembered Gilyard died in a singlecar crash on CR 302.

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Nehemiah Gilyard was a funny, caring student with an “infectious smile” at Flagler Palm Coast High School, where he played football and ran track. He was driving alone on the night of Feb. 14, when he crashed into the trees on the side of County Road 302 and died. He was 18.

“I, as well as our entire Flagler Schools community mourn the loss of Nehemiah Gilyard, a young man taken too soon from his family this weekend,” Flagler Schools Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt wrote in a tweet.

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Palm Coast resident Rosemarie Cardoso danced with Harry Montealvo on Saturday night at the Hispanic American Club.

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State champion FPC’s Annie Buchanan claims state weightlifting title

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Flagler Palm Coast High School weightlifter Annie Buchanan has officially joined the winner’s circle after her top finish at the Class 3A FHSAA Girls Weightlifting State Championships on Feb. 13.

Buchanan earned her spot after completing all six lift attempts (235 for the bench press and 215 for the clean and jerk) for a total of 450 in the 199-pound weight division. George Jenkins’ Dallas Dickey was second place with a 365-pound total.

“I was super excited,” Buchanan said. “I was just smiling ear to ear after I finished lifting!”

Buchanan is only the third lifter in FPC’s history to walk away as a state champion.

One of the other two is her older sister, Lexi Buchanan — then a sophomore — who took the state title in 2018 (425 total). Three short years later, the two SEE BUCHANAN PAGE 15

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FPC football coach Travis Roland tweeted on Feb. 15: “How do you explain the unexplainable to your teenage players.”

Grief counselors were available on campus for students. Several students shared their memories with the Palm Coast Observer.

“He ... was always making any situation funny,” said Jacob Abbas, a 16-year-old FPC student. “That was my brother.”

“No matter where we were or who we were with, he would always just have that positive aura,” said Michael Crockett. “No one had a more infectious smile. … Countless times I’ve seen him go out of his way for those he cares about.”

Harlem Caldwell, now in college, remembers Gilyard as a teammate on the FPC track team. “Even in his down moments he was always smiling,” Caldwell recalled.

Dylan Babushkin, a junior football player at FPC, said Gilyard was one of his first friends at FPC. “He treated me like family,” he said.

Teammate Landon Gonzalez added: “He ... always put others over himself.”

Jaylen Collins, another teammate at FPC, said, “It’s rare to find such a good soul who can remain humble and handle business in a sport while dealing with real world problems and still keep a smile on your face. … I’ll never forget him randomly doing back flips while we all hyped him up.”

“He was a real life brother to me that I never actually had,” said Malik Daley, 16. “You never really saw another side of Neo but the good side.”

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SMALL PRINT 9:50 a.m. 100 block of Shadow Crossing Boulevard Criminal mischief. A Hunters Ridge employee headed out to the community’s maintenance barn at about noon on Feb. 6 to secure the barn for an approaching storm. But when he arrived, he found that someone had used a pair of pruning shears to cut their way through the gate, smashed in two windows at the front of the shed with one of the community’s shovels and sprayed graffit. The miscreant must have been young, judging by the very small size of the shoe prints left in the mud at the scene, the employee told a deputy when reporting the $600 in damages on Feb. 8.

Flagler County cases per day

Ranking: 12th out of 67 counties in Florida.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

A total of 14.5% of Flagler County’s residents — over 16,000 — have been vaccinated for COVID-19, Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord said at a Feb. 15 Flagler County Commission meeting.

The total includes Flagler County residents who were vaccinated in other counties, and puts Flagler County 12th out of the state’s 67 counties in terms of the percentage vaccinated Meanwhile, the county’s positivity rate has been decreasing.

“We’re kind of over that little spike we got after the holidays,” Lord said. “However, we still continue to see active virus spread in the community.”

There have been a total of 5,637 COVID-19 cases in Flagler County, and 83 deaths.

As of this week, Lord said, the Florida Department of Health in Flagler County had received 1,300 vaccine doses, while local Publixes have received another 1,200.

In coming weeks, Lord added, residents can expect to see more private health care providers offer the COVID-19 vaccines.

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When the deputy returned to the location where the loiterer had been spotted, the deputy found a tire iron hanging off a lug nut on the SUV, and a bag containing a jack and power drill in the front passenger seat.

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Daughter, mother and matriarch reflect on race, history and hope BRIAN MCMILLAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR

W

e all know Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass. But who are the other great black voices of the past?

For 18 years, the African American Cultural Society has hosted the Youth Black History Reality Show, giving local children and teens a chance to research the answer to that question and present their findings to a live audience. This year, it will be online only, but Program Chairperson Jeanette Wheeler hopes that can give the show an even broader audience.

Wheeler, a former teacher and administrator in Connecticut, is the matriarch of the show and the AACS, and she visited the Palm Coast Observer office on Feb. 15 to talk about black history and race relations.

She brought along friends from two younger generations for their perspectives: LaToya Taite-Headspeth, 42, is the registrar at Imagine School Town Center; and her daughter Samira Taite-Headspeth, 16, is a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

WHAT HAS THE YOUTH BLACK HISTORY REALITY SHOW ACCOMPLISHED IN THE PAST 18 YEARS?

Jeanette: It has accomplished an opening. It has accomplished conversations. It has stimulated minds of the young people as well as people in the community about their black heritage. And along with that, with the young people, it has helped them to develop confidence, social skills.

LaToya: In the education system, you learn about Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks — like, the same five people every year.

Our history didn’t start at slavery, but that’s where the history books take you over and over again. The Reality Show allows our children to develop a sense of pride, so they can say, “Wow, I am worthy, I am enough.”

It does a whole lot more than just putting them on the stage, but they also do develop a stage presence.

Samira: In the beginning, I liked watching it because my brother was in it. He was Barack Obama, and I thought it was so cool: “My brother’s the president!”

I feel like it brings young black kids together. Being part of the program requires you to do research, and even though it’s not the biggest audience in the world, you feed off the energy. It requires you to learn.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY BLACK INVENTORS, WRITERS AND SCIENTISTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY?

LaToya: Representation matters. If all the community as a whole is learning — at school, in the media, on TV shows — about black people is slavery, there’s this narrow view. It’s important that the positive influences and contributions of all people are known to all people.

Jeanette: It makes for better relationships when you realize that each person has the same worth that you have. It goes back to what Dr. King said, what he dreamed for his little children: that people can look at them and judge them by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.

Samira: This program helps you

see how educated and sophisticated we were — we are. It helps young people to get reading and be a part of it. My friends genuinely talk about the roles we’ve played.

IN YOUR LIFETIME, HOW HAVE RACE RELATIONS CHANGED?

Jeanette: Other races are beginning to look at black people as being human, that they’re capable of doing different kids of jobs.

Now when people in power use, the N word, they end up paying a price for it. That’s one thing we can appreciate. We still have a long ways to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE RACE RELATIONS?

Jeanette: It’s got to start with individuals. You’ve got to have a heart and think of people as being human, just like members of your family.

Another thing: If you are in a privileged position that you can hire or donate to some of the organizations that are making improvements — get involved.

The AACS would welcome people from another race, especially those who feel they have special ways of helping the girls and boys in the organization.

Samira: Posting and promoting positive things on social media — I think we should use these platforms for change.

There are some people who are never going to change. You can’t do anything about it but spread positivity and love.

LaToya: I think there has been growth and improvement. We don’t have to pretend that we are the same. What makes everyone beautiful is your differences.

Let’s embrace and have conversations.

Samira Taite-Headspeth, LaToya Taite-Headspeth

HOW WOULD IT HELP STUDENTS TO SEE MORE BLACK TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS?

LaToya: You see it, you can be it. That would make such a positive impact.

Jeanette: I grew up in the segregated south: Georgia. In the integrated world, when there is a black teacher who walks in, I would say the average black kid gives a sigh of relief: “There’s going to be somebody who’s going to be a little on my side.

Maybe I’ll feel free to share some of my experiences.”

As a teacher who also taught in the integrated society in Connecticut, I had a lot of black students who were reluctant to talk about their families, the things they were going through. We had culture days where you would have to prepare meals of your culture. I would have to go and talk with some of the students of color to let them know, “It’s OK to talk about collard greens. It’s OK to talk about fried chicken, fried fish. Other people eat that too.” They thought that was just in the black culture.

Samira: Going into class, I’ve seen a lot of this happen with the black boys. A lot act out, but the teachers don’t know what to do, so they just say, “Get out of my class.” And they stereotype every black boy like, “This one’s probably angry too,” but he’s not doing anything.

LaToya: If you have educators representing who’s being educated, if that looks as diverse as the student body, there will be a whole lot more learning taking place.

BLACK HISTORY PROGRAM What: 18th-annual program celebrating black history, organized by the African American Cultural Society When: 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 Where: Online at aacspalmcoast.org. Also available on YouTube and Facebook.

Scholarships: Each year, the program features scholarship awards. To donate, mail a check to AACS, P.O. Box 350607, Palm Coast, Florida 32135, or donate online at aacspalmcoast.org.

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Jeanette Wheeler

WHAT DID THE ELECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS MEAN TO YOU?

Samira: It meant a lot to me.

But no one was talking about it. People were tweeting about her outfit. My history teacher went on about how it’s unfair for Trump to be impeached.

Jeanette: It meant that we are growing, that attitudes are beginning to change slowly, that my young daughters can now say, “Hey, I can do that too.

Maybe I don’t want her position, but I might want to be a big CEO someplace,” so it gives courage to most of us that the doors are slowly opening.

But one of the things most of us people of color have seen is that the opposition [on Jan. 6, for example, in the raid on the U.S. Capitol] is because of these doors opening to people of color.

Might as well say it: Members of the Ku Klux Klan — that’s what they all are. They just have different names now.

DEFEATING RACISM MAY FEEL, AT TIMES, LIKE A HOPELESS CAUSE. WHAT KEEPS YOU MOVING?

LaToya: It’s tiring, but there’s always hope. It’s never too late to

“Our history didn’t start at slavery, but that’s where the history books take you over and over again. The Reality Show allows our children to develop a sense of pride, so they can say, ‘Wow, I am worthy, I am enough.’”

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change, as long as you have breath in your body. Be that individual. Don’t wait on somebody else. The change you want to see in the world — it should start with you.

Jeanette: Slaves had hope.

Harrite Tubman and the Underground Railroad — they knew they would have been killed had they been captured, but they had hope they would get out of that situation. That’s one of the strongest values of people of color. This is what we teach our children, when they come home crying when they have been called certain names. We say, “No baby. That’s not really you that they’re talking about.” Hope is always there.

Samira: There’s always going to be people who are against it. But I really do hope that one day it’s going to change. I feel it’s going to get better.

Email Brian McMillan at editor@palmcoastobserver.com.

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Flagler seeks new options for mental health center After discovering costlyto-fix problems with the building, the county government is evaluating other locations.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Flagler County lacks a drop-in mental health and substance abuse treatment center, and the county government was hoping to build one in a facility that AdventHealth has offered to donate to the county.

But that won’t work: The building has too many problems, County Administrator Jerry Cameron said at a County Commission meeting Feb. 15. So instead of a $75,000 expense to renovate an existing, donated building, the county is now facing at least $200,000 to build or buy a new one.

“Our initial surveys of the building showed that we could get it done with a reasonable amount of renovation,” Cameron said. “After the building was cleared out and we could have complete access to it, a number of issues were discovered: some of them with asbestos, some of them with wood rot and some other issues. It was determined that you could probably tear it down and build a new building for as much money as it was going to cost you to renovate that one.”

One potential option would be to accept the land from AdventHealth, then build a new building on the site, he said.

The drop-in mental health center proposal was the county’s top funding request to the state government, and county government staff are evaluating how the revelations about the building’s status might affect what the county is seeking from the state Legislature, Cameron said.

“I’ve been contacted by a couple hospitals that are interested in trying to come up with a solution,” Cameron said. “If they become

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“The extra staffing just allows us to provide the services we need and the

safety of our people,” Fire Chief Joe King said.

The Fire Department has 86 applicants for the 15 positions, he said.

“The county’s showing a commitment to the Fire Department,” he said. “These guys know they’re safe coming to work here. That’s the most we’ve gotten in years.”

major players at that, then the match for that, coming from the Legislature, would be imperative.”

Flagler County has had bad luck with used buildings: It bought a former hospital building on State Road 100 and renovated it into a Sheriff’s Operations Center before discovering mold issues that prompted the sheriff to evacuate his entire staff; then, not long after, it bought two more facilities for government use — a former Wachovia and a former Sears — and found problems with both.

The latest disappointment with the AdventHealth building is different, because the county hasn’t spent money on the AdventHealth building. But commissioners were concerned about how it might impact the county’s legislative funding request.

Cameron said the county has about a 30-day window to amend its request.

“If we can make something happen, we will,” he said. “It is a high community priority, but we would have to have some partners.”

Commissioner Donald O’Brien asked if the county had communicated its recent findings about the building to its legislators, Sen. Travis Hutson and Rep. Paul Renner.

Cameron said the county had not yet contacted them, but will do so within about a week once the county knows what its alternatives are.

“After the building was cleared out and we could have complete access to it, a number of issues were discovered.”

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County plans for FPL electric vehicle charging stations JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Locals and visitors may soon have new spots to charge their electric vehicles: At proposed charging stations near the county’s Government Services Building.

Florida Power & Light has approached the Flagler County government with a proposal to install a set of EV charging stations as part of a statewide pilot program, and will cover the $30,000-$50,000 installation cost if the county covers up to about $50 per month per station for electricity, County Administrator Jerry Cameron said at a Feb. 15 County Commission meeting.

“It is, I believe, an extraordinary opportunity,” he said.

FPL is installing 600 such stations across the state, he said.

“It’s a great benefit to employees and also a great benefit to the people that have to do business with the county,” Cameron said.

“It does really promote the switch to electric cars, and it’s viewed by me as an opportunity.”

The Palm Coast city government already has charging electric at its City Hall.

The county’s general services director will work with FPL on where, exactly, to place the stations — potentially on the road linking the Government Services Building to the county courthouse, Cameron said.

Commissioner David Sullivan had concerns.

“Not to be a Debbie Downer here, but here’s my problem,” Sullivan said. “We’re going to use taxpayer money to pay for people’s gas, essentially — electricity. And as you said, it costs $50 a month ... so the people who have an electric car will get essentially free power.”

Cameron noted that the county gives out free masks and hand sanitizer.

Sullivan asked why the stations couldn’t simply be installed with credit card readers so people could pay for their own power.

“If we installed it ourself, we could do that,” Cameron said, “and it would take us a long time at $50 per charging station to recoup what we’d lose.”

Commissioner Andy Dance said that when he’d considered getting an electric vehicle himself, the downside was the proximity of charging stations, given the vehicles’ limited range.

“I think there’s a tremendous benefit to having a wide range of charging stations,” Dance said. “I think the expansion of charging units at the various spots around the county is a benefit. We have so many people coming to the building for a wide variety of uses. It seems like a logical expansion.”

Sullivan said that if the proposal is just an experimental project, it may be OK. Cameron said it’s an incubator: Once there are enough charging stations, more people will get electric cars, and that will spur private companies to build credit card-based charging stations.

Other commissioners favored the stations, and Cameron said he’ll move forward with the FPL agreement.

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City closes cut-through in Seminole Woods A large part of the problem with the 150-foot-long unpaved road called “Slow Way” has been that people take it too fast.

Reacting to resident concerns about speeding traffic that uses the road as a cut-through between U.S. 1 and Seminole Woods Boulevard, Palm Coast’s City Council on Feb. 16 voted unanimously to close the road by installing fencing and a gate that can be accessed only by first responders.

Slow Way, which links County Road 325 to residential Slow Drift Turn, has worried neighbors for years.

The existing problem was recently exacerbated by a Seminole Woods Boulevard closure that pushed more non-local traffic onto the cutthrough.

A city-government-led community meeting Oct. 12 brought out unhappy neighbors who urged the city to fix the problem. The city’s staff evaluated the road.

“Evidence of the aggressive driving included ruts in the northeast quadrant of Slow Way at Slow Drift Turn,” a city staff document states. “ ... In the previous 15 months, the city had replaced a knocked down stop sign and post in that quadrant four times. The residents stated they have made this same appeal to the city, approximately every two years, for the last 15 years.”

One resident of nearby Sloganeer Trail criticized the

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The city will purchase the new ones from Harold Beck & Sons, Inc., of Pennsylvania.

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proposed closure and said he hadn’t received a city email about the community meeting, and didn’t know anyone who had.

“Are we adequately surveying the residents on this?” he said at the Feb. 16 meeting. “... That Slow Way closure is not only used by Palm Coast residents, but by all my neighbors who live on [County Road] 325 and [County Road] 330. ... Are they being considered also?

Have they been surveyed?

Because this impacts not only Palm Coast, but people outside — my neighbors, that I like to visit.”

He said city staff’s estimation that closing the road would only increase locals’ drive time by 40 seconds was inaccurate, stating that it would add over a mile to his commute.

“The residents, myself included, often jog, walk and use Slow Way to access 330 and 325, because they’re lightly traveled roads,” he said.

“What accommodations for people who are using walking, bicycles, golf carts, that travel that road frequently?”

But a resident who lives off Slow Way said the heavy traffic has become intolerable.

“Children have been almost hit getting on school buses, the residents’ property is being destroyed, my neighbor has replaced his fence seven or eight times, my other neighbor has replaced his mailbox annually from people

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cutting through too fast on a road that is not capable of handling that sort of traffic,” she said. “... I have sat and taken picture of semis coming down 325. Those residential streets are not built for that kind of transportation, so it’s destroying the road infrastructure. It is a resident safety issue, and it’s a neighborhood; it’s not a main thoroughfare.”

The council voted 5-0 to close the road.

The gate will have a Z-shaped opening to allow access by pedestrians and bicyclists, city Chief Development Officer Jason DeLorenzo said.

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The case for Carver Flagler County to move forward with first phase of $900,000 Carver Center renovation project JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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A long-awaited expansion at the George Washington Carver Center in Bunnell is finally slated for construction.

“We’ve been raising funds as hard as we can, and this past Feb. 1 we gave a $50,000 check to the county to add to their funds to do a building addition,” said Barbara Revels, who heads the Carver Foundation’s board of directors.

The Carver Foundation is also seeking donations of construction materials, such as windows

that could be donated at cost, Revels said.

The Carver Center is owned by the county government but hosts programs supported by Flagler Schools. It had been slated for demolition when community efforts saved it in 2011.

Plans for the renovation were developed in 2015, and the county budgeted about $100,000. But construction costs skyrocketed, and the county postponed the project while advocates began pressing the county for $400,000 for the work.

County Administrator Jerry Cameron said at an August 2020 County Commission meeting that the center was a high priority — but so was supporting the county’s underfunded fire services.

Now, the county is preparing

for the $450,000, 3,259-squarefoot first phase of the renovation project. The second phase would add another 4,055 square feet and cost about another $450,000.

The renovation will add multipurpose rooms, four offices, new bathrooms and a lobby area, and make the building ADA-compliant.

The county hopes to finish the first phase in October, said Heidi Petito, the county’s general services director.

The Carver Center is built around the old gym of Flagler County’s pre-integration K-12 school for black students, and much of it is taken up by the basketball courts, where practice sessions can reverberate throughout the building — the noise at times interfering with other tasks.

The two new multipurpose

rooms will be able to host the center’s computer lab and afterschool programs, homework help sessions and community sessions even while students use the basketball gym, said Jordan Butler, the director of the Flagler County Youth Center.

“With the gym being where it is, and the noise … having those rooms up front will allow us to be able to expand our services and our programming, because they’ll be able to operate at the same time. And that goes for our Road to Success Program too,” he said, mentioning the GED training program that operates at the Carver Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays.

He thanked the county government and other local governments and businesses for donating items for the Carver Foundation’s annual auction.

Revels also thanked the people and businesses that have donated through the auction and the Carver Foundation’s annual Motown Madness gala.

“Every year, year in and year out, they’re willing to give away a travel package or ... a gift certificate,” she said. “If anyone has contributed, we’re just so thankful for everything they’ve been willing to do.”

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Correct numbers needed before Belle Terre swim club decision

DAVID CORSON GUEST WRITER

I understand there is a question of accuracy about membership numbers for the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club which were contained in my Feb. 4 article in the Palm Coast Observer.

(Editor’s Note: A story on

page 3 of the Jan. 21 edition of the Palm Coast Observer cited a Flagler Schools staff member stating that the Belle Terre Swim & Racquet Club had 1,243 full time members, down by 135 since the pandemic began.

Those numbers, presented to the School Board in a Jan. 19 board workshop, were incorrect, according to School Board attorney Kristy Gavin. The latest number, taken in December 2020, was 193 regular members, down from 550 in December of 2019, Gavin said.)

For an organization that has had between 1,200 and 1,300 paid members, how can they

suddenly have only 193 in December 2020? Belle Terre does not have a fixed date for all members to renew their memberships. They renew as their membership expires which means that memberships renewed after Jan. 1, 2019, were good for a year into 2020. The pool was closed in November and December 2019 because school maintenance could not expedite getting a pump motor. The swim team, vying for a championship, had to go elsewhere to train.

Belle Terre was shut down for COVID for three months at the start of 2020.

We do not understand why the school system can’t provide us with a report every six months of Belle Terre membership numbers and revenue and expenses. They have arrogantly stonewalled us on our requests.

We want detail about the alleged $500,000 shortfall and detail about costs referenced in the Observer for ramp and deck, parking lot work and a new building.

A quit-claim deed dated Dec. 31, 1996, has Commonwealth Palm Coast Corp. selling the Belle Terre property to the School Board of Flagler County for the sum of $10. What goes

with this type of transaction is a pledge to maintain the facility faithfully in the condition it was when transferred. As in an HOA, a reserve should have been established for maintenance.

The School Board is floating the idea of a citizen task force to study the Belle Terre issue.

Without correct Belle Terre financials that would be a complete waste of everyone’s time and accomplish nothing.

David Corson is president of the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club Advisory Committee.

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FCSO detective arrested on domestic battery charge, suspended without pay Cpl. Mark Moy, a 14-year Flagler County Sheriff’s Office employee with a long list of commendations, has been arrested on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge. The FCSO has suspended him without pay pending an investigation, according to an FCSO news release.

“Sheriff Staly is extremely disappointed in his behavior,” FCSO Chief of Staff Mark Strobridge said in the news release.

“Sheriff Staly has made the reduction of domestic violence a priority since becoming sheriff, and this proves that no one is immune from it or from being arrested if they violate the law.”

Moy, a major case corporal in the Investigative Services Division’s Special Victims Unit who’d worked on the Mobil gas station murder case and had led the initiative to create a digital forensics unit, was booked at the county jail on Feb. 12.

The FCSO had received a domestic violence concerning

Moy at 3:04 a.m., according to Moy’s arrest report. Because Moy was an FCSO employee, a supervisor, Sgt. Frank Gamarra, was assigned to investigate.

The 19-year-old victim said that Moy, 39, had hit her on the left side of her face, leaving her with trouble hearing out of her left ear. She had scratch marks on her neck, and her ear was bleeding.

The victim told Gamarra that she’d been video-chatting with a friend in her bedroom when she went to the kitchen to get some potato chips. When she opened the bag, Moy took a couple chips and then told her to give him the whole bag, she said.

In front of several other people in the house, including Sheriff’s Office Detective John-Jack Castanheira, Moy berated her and swore at her; when she went to the garage to grab a drink, he cursed at her and grabbed her by the shirt and neck, she said.

She ran back to her bedroom and ended the video call, but Moy broke down her bedroom door, grabbed her around the neck and slapped her across the face, she said.

Gamarra and FCSO Cmdr.

Jason Neat interviewed Moy, who agreed to speak without an attorney present and told them that the victim had been “increasing disrespectful to him and his household.” Moy denied hitting her.

Moy said the incident did not begin over a bag of chips.

He said that the 19-year-old’s attitude had been poor, and that earlier in the evening, they’d discussed her poor grades.

He said that when she’d gotten a drink from the garage, he believed it was a White Claw — an alcoholic beverage. An argument began and proceeded to her bedroom, he said.

The other people who were at the house at the time of the indent said they’d seen an argument, but no physical violence.

“Based on the [victim’s] statement, her observed injuries, and nature of the allegations, probable cause exists that Mark A. Moy did commit the crime of battery, domestic violence,” Gamarra wrote.

Moy is charged with misdemeanor domestic battery and is being held at the county jail with no bond allowed.

Woman shoots and injures herself

Two large off-leash dogs kill small dog

A woman in a car that had been reported stolen shot and injured herself at a RaceTrac gas station at in Palm Coast in the early morning hours of Feb. 15 as Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies approached to apprehend her.

Deputies found the car at the gas station at 301 Palm Coast Parkway NE, at the intersection of Palm Coast Parkway Northeast and Florida Park Drive, at about 2 a.m. Feb. 15.

It had been reported stolen in Volusia County. The woman shot herself before deputies reached the car, according to FCSO Public Affairs Manager Brittany Kershaw.

The woman survived, and deputies started lifesaving measures on her. She was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in critical condition.

“This is an active ongoing investigation,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “It is always tragic when someone attempts to take their own life, but I’m glad no deputies were hurt in this incident.”

Two large dogs that escaped from their owner’s property in the Daytona North area entered a neighbor’s yard and killed a small dog Feb. 14, according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office report.

The dog that was killed was at the home of an 88-year-old woman who was dog-sitting for her hospitalized neighbor when the attack occurred.

The dog-sitter said she’d been watching the small dog, a terrier, when two dogs from a home at 1050 Avocado Blvd. came onto her lawn.

“Once on the property, the dogs began to bite and maul the dog she had been caring after,” a deputy wrote. “[She] attempted to intervene, but lost her footing. ... The two pit bull dogs were called back to their residence by the owner after hearing the neighbor’s screams.”

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The Flagler County Commission on Feb. 15 granted the developer, RJN Design and Development, a five-year-extension to submit a platting request for the first 30 homes of the development, called Paradise Village. But the vote was divided 4-1, with Commissioner Andy Dance dissenting — and both Dance and Commissioner Greg Hansen warned the developer to address area residents’ concerns before the project returns to the commission in the future for final approval.

The project, based on a planned unit development first approved in 2011, is on its second five-year extension.

The developer sought the first in 2016 because of complications with extending utilities to the project: The nearest utility plant, the Plantation Bay utility, had for years drawn resident complaints

over water quality problems .

Now the utility is under new management, and the developer is interested in moving forward.

As was the case in a Jan. 12 planning board meeting discussion of the proposal — which ended with the planning board recommending that the County Commission approve the extension — concerns centered around neighbors’ fears that the proposed project would flood their land.

Resident John Wachter’s land abuts the RJN Design property.

“I’m not here to stand in the way of progress, but I have legitimate concerns about the flooding of my property,” he said.

Attorney Robert Merrell, representing the developer, said the developer will have to meet St. Johns Water Management District drainage standards.

Dance asked about the size of the project’s buffers, including the one adjoining Wachter’s land.

Those had not been written into the Planned Unit Development.

Dance proposed making the commission’s approval contingent on an enhanced buffer, and on the developer adding to the planned unit development agreement an option for a secondary emergency access road onto Old Dixie Highway.

Other commissioners acknowledged Dance’s concerns, but said those issues could be dealt with when the proposal returns to the commission for final site plan approval.

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Barbosa urges residents to press City Council to loosen signage rules Councilman Victor Barbosa said broader allowances for advertising signs could help businesses that are struggling due to COVID-19.

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Palm Coast City Councilman Victor Barbosa is urging residents to write to the mayor and to his fellow council members to loosen the city’s restrictions on advertising signage on vehicles and real estate signs in yards.

Barbosa, who runs a barber shop called ManCave off Old Kings Road north of Palm Coast Parkway, said in a video posted publicly on his Facebook page on Feb. 3 that he’s dealt with code notices himself because of the advertising signage on his pickup truck.

“I got another notice because someone’s going around checking my properties and checking my whole life to see if everything’s in order, and the biggest issue that they came up with is my signage, so they reported it,” he said. “I’ve been fighting this fight by myself.

“What is such a big deal that the code enforcement has nothing better to do than to bother a person that’s working, a person that’s bringing jobs to the community?”

VICTOR BARBOSA, Palm Coast city councilman

gestures at his truck during a Facebook video he recorded about Palm Coast’s signage restrictions.

I’ve brought it up in City Council meetings three times.”

Mayor Milissa Holland had replied at the meetings that signage is a code issue that should be dealt with at the council’s strategic planning sessions in March.

Barbosa specified in a Feb. 11 interview that the code notice he’d received came around when he was running for election.

He said he’s been able to avoid getting more of them by placing his truck in the garage, but noted that some residents can’t do that.

“Opening your own business is the American dream,” he said.

“Having to come home after a 12-hour shift and cover your car up — it’s ridiculous. People are putting tarps and drapes on their cars.

Does that look good? No. The regular-weight vehicles should be allowed. It’s not a big thing, but it is a big thing for the working person that owns a business.”

The section of the city’s Code of Ordinances dealing with vehicle parking, Sec. 44-34c, states that only passenger vehicles, not commercial ones, may be parked overnight in residential areas.

It goes on to defines a commercial vehicle as any vehicle “upon which advertising markings have been affixed which occupy in excess of three square feet per side,” as well as vehicles with a capacity over one ton or with certain kinds of cargo boxes or racks.

In his video, Barbosa was speaking in front of his truck, which sports a large graphic logo for the barbershop on the side.

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“A passenger vehicle is an automobile, motorcycle, moped, passenger van, sport utility vehicle, or a pickup truck. ... A commercial vehicle means any agricultural, construction or industrial equipment; any motor vehicle upon which advertising markings have

what a nice truck, what a nice sign,’” he said. “I don’t understand what the big thing is. We work here. We live here. We pay taxes here. This should not be the city’s problem about signage on your vehicle in your driveway. ...

What is such a big deal that the code enforcement has nothing better to do than to bother a person that’s working, a person that’s bringing jobs to the community?

This is a problem?”

He urged viewers to write to the mayor and council and show up at City Council meetings.

Barbosa had raised the code enforcement issue in City Council meetings on Nov. 17, Dec. 1 and Jan. 12; Councilman Ed Danko had also proposed at the Dec. 1 meeting that the city form a citizen committee to review the code.

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meeting, asked for the council’s consensus to include the topic on its next meeting agenda, Holland said that isn’t how the city’s process works.

“This is a very comprehensive, complex issue,” Holland said.

“You will have the opportunity in March to discuss that with staff. ... That’s how the council has always operated, and that is where I stand on that issue.”

Barbosa, speaking on Feb. 11, said that COVID-19 is affecting local businesses while the council waits.

“Businesses are hurting now,” he said. “... It just doesn’t make sense why they don’t look over this. ... We’re supposed to be business-friendly here. So hopefully it will get looked at, I guess in March, and hopefully we can get something resolved.”

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YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR TOWN ROTARY DONATES TO COMMUNITY DESPITE PANDEMIC

Starting in March 2020, the Rotary Club of Palm Coast was forced to eliminate all of its in-person fundraising due to the pandemic.

In spite of this setback, the club came up with creative solutions to continue to support community organizations.

The club’s December Online Holiday Auction, along with member contributions, enabled the organization to make donations this month to both Christmas Come True and Flagler Technical College’s Adult Education programs, specifically GED scholarships for participants in the Open Door Re-Entry & Recovery Ministry.

Christmas Come True, founded in 2009 by Nadine King, provides an entire personalized Christmas experience for challenged Flagler County families, including Christmas dinner, new clothing, gifts, toys and Christmas stockings.

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by Pastor Charles Silano, is a prison-diversion program serving recovering alcohol and substance addicts in Flagler County. The Ministry currently assists with the inmate STRIDE program at the county jail in addition to operating two recovery houses in Bunnell.

For more information visit the Rotary Club of Palm Coast on the web or on Facebook. The club is currently using a hybrid meeting format with in-person and Zoom meetings Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.

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TAX HELP AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN PALM COAST For residents in need of tax forms or income tax preparation assistance, help is available this year at the Palm Coast Branch Library beginning Feb. 16 through mid-April.

Tax preparation services will not be provided at the Government Services Building this year.

“We are happy to be able to provide space to AARP and the United Way so they can assist our residents,” said Library Director Holly Albanese.

Advance appointments are required.

The United Way Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) will provide free tax services between the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays through Apr. 13. Call 386-253-0564.

Taxes are prepared through AARP IRS-certified Tax-Aide volunteers for low- to moderate-income individuals and families within Flagler County from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursdays through April 15. Call 386313-4048.

Additionally, instruction booklets and the 1040 form are available at the Palm Coast Branch Library and the Bunnell Branch.

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lagler Palm Coast’s 2020-21 campaign came to a close after the team lost to Volusia County rival Spruce Creek. The 1-0 loss on Feb. 16 left the Lady Bulldogs with a 13-5-5 record on the season, but also marks the end of the program’s 30th season, all of which have been under head coach, Peter Hald.

In 1991, Hald decided to put together an official girls soccer team at FPC. (Before then, the girls had to play on the boys team.)

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share the same honor.

“It feels great to join her,” she said. “She was definitely one of my biggest motivations.”

Head coach Duane Hagstrom said that Buchanan has been a project as far as her ability to compete, but she’s matured greatly in the last three years.

“As a freshman, if she missed a lift, her day was over and we couldn’t get her reeled back in,” he said. “We don’t have the problem now. She is calm and cool regardless of the situation.”

The energy at this year’s championships were slightly different due to COVID-19, but even the altered atmosphere wasn’t enough to deter Buchanan. She said that prior to winning, she was simply focused on lifting making all of her attempts. Upon winning, tears of pride and excitement streamed down her face, as her longtime goal had become a reality.

Hagstrom shared in this sentiment, saying that he told her after she won that he has “cried tears of joy every time I’ve had a state champ.” Buchanan was no different. But, he joked that if she told anyone about his tears, he would deny it.

A champion at heart and in the weight room, Buchanan now sets her sights on the lacrosse fields as one of FPC’s goalies. The girls lacrosse team will next play at home on Feb. 23, hosting Pedro Menendez at 5:30 p.m.

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Vandyke, Freeman and Parks to play college ball Corey Vandyke, Travis Roland and Chris Parker.

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or the second time during the 2020-21 school year, FPC’s football program is sending a set of players to the collegiate level.

On Feb. 15, Corey Vandyke (outside linebacker), Jack Freeman (defensive tackle, defensive end) and Chris Parks (running back, strong safety) signed their National Letters of Intent to play football at the collegiate level, shedding their green and white for a new set of colors in a uniform they’ll wear for the next four years.

Vandyke will be taking his talents to

Florida Memorial University just a few hours away, in Miami Gardens.

Parks chose to stay within close proximity of teammate Vandyke, as he will attend and play for St. Thomas University, which is also located in the Miami area.

Freeman will travel to the Great Plains region a little further from home, attending Concordia University.

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Daytona State College begins $4 million Palm Coast upgrade for expanded nursing program The college will be able to accommodate 90 additional nursing students in state-of-theart facilities, according to Daytona State College.

JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Daytona State College is joining other institutions of higher learning in expanding health care education offerings in Palm Coast.

DSC is undertaking a $4,246,684 renovation project at the Alan Smolen Center at the Flagler County campus off Palm Coast Parkway to add new teaching facilities for its health care programs, according to Chris Thomes, the college’s director of marketing and communications.

The college is increasing the number of spots in its limitedaccess nursing program by 90.

Those students can then move into an online bachelor of science in nursing program that can be

completed in 14 months. Graduates will be able to help alleviate a local shortage of nurses, according to Thomes.

Construction of the renovation project, by DLR Group and Charles Perry Partners Inc., is expected to end June 15, 2021, Thomes said.

“Students living in Palm Coast and the surrounding areas in Flagler County will be able to receive state-of-the-art nursing education at a nursing dedicated complex,” Dr. Colin Chesley, associate vice president of DSC’s College of Health & Public Services, said in a statement. “They will be able to start and complete the entire program here and will be able to transition into local health care facilities to work.”

Two other institutions — The University of North Florida and Jacksonville University — are also planning to add health care education programs in Palm Coast.

The UNF and Jacksonville University programs will be centered in Palm Coast’s Town Center.

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Above: A rendering of the renovated Alan Smolen Center exterior.

Left: A rendering of a simulation lab in the renovated Alan Smolen Center in Palm Coast.

Market timing... at your own risk

If history has proven anything, it is that the amateur investor has a difficult time resisting the emotional response of trying to time the market to their benefit. Actions of this nature can be something as simple as trying to move investments to cash when there is concern over short-term market fluctuations or getting back in at the precise bottom.

We field phone calls often with individuals who have concerns over economic or political outcomes that “in their opinion” would cause there to be some form of market response. This is a very difficult feeling to ignore even for seasoned professionals, but it is important to remember that even they can rarely predict or outsmart the market long term.

To quote an article from Nasdaq.com: “Sophisticated investors know what matters and what does not, but the behavior of many suggests otherwise. Asset allocation matters most. It explains 100% of investment performance - yes, all of it. Accordingly, most of your time, energy and money should be spent on asset allocation.”

Simply put, long term, the timing of your market investments is far less important than how you are invested and for how long. According to a recent article from Business Insider “90% of active fund managers underperform the market.” These are usually highly trained and educated financial professionals.

If they cannot outsmart the market 90% of the time, why is it that the average part

time investor thinks they have the ability to do so? The answer is emotion. It is easy to let our emotions get the best of us and feel that we need to react to every headline, every stock scenario on tv or every economic report. The reality is that success with investing comes down to choosing an asset allocation appropriate for your risk tolerance, quality investments and lots of patience.

Instead, most investors feel overly confident in high markets -- they tend to get more aggressive or put more money in. And they tend to be less confident in low markets -- getting more conservative or taking money out. The old saying “buy low, sell high” is a very real thing, but people tend to do the exact opposite in most situations. This is where advisors spend a lot of their time with clients, helping them avoid the “noise” and keeping their eye on the long-term goals of their overall investment plan.

The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations. Asset allocation does.not ensure profit or protect against loss.

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house in Ocean Hammock was the top real estate transaction for the week of Jan. 7-13 in Flagler County in the Multiple Listing Service. Roger and Agnes Ware, of Alpharetta, Georgia, sold 19 Ocean Ridge Blvd. N. to Charles and Antoinette Meintjes, as trustees, for $1,375,000. Built in 2016, the house is a 4/4 and has a fireplace, swimming pool, elevator and 4,551 square feet.

Following is a partial list of other transactions for the week.

WAYNE GRANT REAL ESTATE EDITOR

Condos Grietje DeJonge, individually and as trustee, sold 200 Ocean Crest Drive, Unit 612, to David Gagnon, as trustee, for $1.2 million. Built in 2003, the condo is a 4/4.5 and has 3,264 square feet.

Sheila Hart, of Cleveland, Georgia, sold 45 Riverview Bend S., Unit 1926, to Lynne Metz, as curator, for $340,000.

Built in 2006, the condo is a 3/3 and has 2,007 square feet.

Diane Evanac and Richard Ackerman, of Ormond Beach, sold 190 Riverview Bend, Unit 1023, to Fabio Arzola and Maria Kisic, of Fort Lauderdale, for $225,000. Built in 2007, the condo is a 3/2 and has 1,461 square feet. It sold in

2007 for $420,000.

Belle Terre Brite Properties of Florida LLC, of Orlando, sold 24 Persimmon Drive to Miguel Cottes and Rita Morales, of Mooresville, North Carolina, for $252,900. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,675 square feet.

Cypress Knoll Angelo and Patricia Martone, of Palm Coast, sold 2 East Bourne Lane to Elizabeth and William Bowes, of Palm Coast, for $379,900. Built in 2003, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,748 square feet.

Fuquay Lawrence and Rosalind Servinsky, of Portage, Pennsylvania, sold 1339 S. Central Ave. to Edward and Joyce Fendley, of Flagler Beach, for $345,000. Built in 1972, the

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house is a 3/2 and has 1,324 square feet.

Grand Haven Natalia and Mark Rekhter, of Carmel, Indiana, sold 24 Village Drive N. to Luz and Juan Asmat, of Palm Coast, for $429,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 4/3 and has a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,620 square feet. It sold in 2008 for $300,000.

Grand Reserve and Golf Club D.R. Horton Inc. Jacksonville, of St. Johns, sold 235 Grand Reserve Drive to Michael Janes, of Bunnell, for $316,990. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/3 and has 2,363 square feet.

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Indian Trails Eva Bridge, of Sarasota, sold 31 Buffalo Plains Lane to Mohamed and Marie Sidki, of Palm Coast, for $240,000. Built in 2005, the house is a 3/2 and has 2,014 square feet.

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Dorrett Johanson, of Boonsboro, Maryland, sold 8 Fallon Lane to Albert Franco Jr., of Palm Coast, for $200,000.

Built in 2005, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,695 square feet.

RH Asset Holdings LLC, of Orlando, sold 5 Burgess Place to Nicole Baxa, of Palm Coast, for $239,700. Built in 2020, the house is 4/2 and has 1,650 square feet.

Pine Grove Yana Golubitskiy sold 10 Point Pleasant Drive to Dwayne Johnson, of Brooklyn, for $199,900. Built in 2007, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,371 square feet.

Lehigh Woods Anna Furman, of Brooklyn, sold 93 Red Mill Drive to Francisco and Fatima Bahia, of Palm Coast, for $217,500. Built in 2005, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,891 square feet.

Pine Lakes Holiday Builders Inc., of Melbourne, sold 4 White Hill Place to Adrian and Rachelle Lee, of Palm Coast, for $345,339. Built in 2020, the house is a 4/2 and has 1,864 square feet.

Matanzas Woods Vintage Estate Homes LLC, of Melbourne, sold 15 Lancelot Drive to Georgina and Marco Guarnieri, of Palm Coast, for $257,000. Built in 2020, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,804 square feet.

Raymond Bernard, of Palm Coast, sold 6 Wainwright Place to Stephen Bitgood and Arlene Benefield, of Palm Coast, for $185,000. Built in 1987, the house is a 2/2 and has 1,263 square feet. It sold in 1987 for $69,200.

Palm Harbor Susan Saud, individually and as trustee, sold 1 Claridge Court S. to Beverly Darkatsh, individually and as trustee, for $377,000. Built in 1982, the house is a 4/2 and has a swimming pool and 1,820 square feet.

Quail Hollow Andrew Luczak, of Lockport, Illinois, sold 8 Zircon Court to Zane Silvestri, of Palm Coast, for $209,900. Built in 2005, the house is a 3/2 and has 1,578 square feet.

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When Sam Perkovich purchased her office in Town Center for her company ParkSide Realty Group in 2016, everyone thought she was nuts. With only City Hall and few doctor’s offices nearby, foot traffic was nearly nonexistent - but she knew “the future was going to catch up with Palm Coast.”

And with Douglas Property & Development creating more housing, partnering with major institutions, and expanding opportunities for local businesses, it looks like it finally has. But because of the ever-changing landscape of our modern world, that future has to be adaptable.

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“It’s something that invites you in. When you look at it, you wonder what’s going on there.”

In addition to giving people a reason to come to Town Center, DPD is also making sure that people have a reason to stay in Town Center. In addition to the educational institutions like the Jacksonville University and the University of North Florida Mednexus, Douglas says they’re providing spaces that will meet the needs of future workers like co-working spaces.

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ward-thinking and progressive in terms of development. When you think about places like the Research Triangle-Raleigh Durham, Chapel Hill, Duke, and UNC-they’re institutions, but the real value in those places is all the ancillary stuff that comes off. The people that come there to take advantage of them and all the businesses that serve those people.

“We had to turn Town Center into a destination, and that’s what these institutions have done.”

And part of that is bringing in more varieties of food services, nightlife, and other entertainment businesses that will finally give residents a downtown area.

“Palm Coast has been waiting for a downtown since it was designed,” said Douglas. “And all we’re trying to do is fulfill that vision.”

While there are a few breweries and some great local restaurants, Douglas says it’s not the same as having them in a centralized location. Not only does creating a downtown area allow other businesses to “feed off of each other and enjoy each other’s success,” but

it also makes more foot traffic for other activity-based businesses to open up. Something Perkovich-who jokingly refers to herself as a “pioneer of Town Center-is particularly excited to see.

“We need some coffee shops and restaurants,” she said. “And with all the residential that’s coming in, we’re going to need hair salons, spas, barbershops, cleaners, all that. And it’s kind of beyond the wildest dreams that we’re going to have some universities there.”

But no matter what the future holds, Douglas says they’ll be ready.

“We’re not shoehorning anyone into a square-foot unit,” he said. “We’re letting the market dictate. If someone comes to us and says, ‘We need 762-square feet,’ that’s weird, but we’ll figure it out.”

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Your hometown dealer | 1150 Palm Coast Pkwy. SW | www.PalmCoastFord.com | 386-447-3380 * Lifetime Powertrain warranty applies to vehicles purchased New at Palm Coast Ford. (c) 2020 by Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc. (12/1/2020-12/31/2020) Edition for 32137 for Fair condition. Vehicle valuations are approximations and may vary from vehicle to vehicle. Actual valuations will vary based upon market conditions, specifications, vehicle condition or other particular circumstances pertinent to this particular vehicle or the transaction or the parties to the transaction. Kelley Blue Book assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions.