The building at this site has a long and confusing history. Over the years, it had many names and uses. It was built somewhere between 1983 and 1990. It is 2 stories. Construction is brick and concrete. Foundation is slab. Square footage is 50,000 square feet. There are 65 rooms.
Sign in Front of Resort. Note the address is listed as 1111 Avenida del Circo
Front Entrance of the resort. Note the wall mural
Front view of the resort
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Rear of the building
Rear of the Building
fireplace
Area of outdoor dining
Outdoor Dining area
Rear of the Building
Posterior Building
Rear of Building
Rear of the Building
Rear of the Building
Aerial View of Property
The first business at this site was Whispering Sands retirement center. This was founded in 1990. Owner was Harvey Weissman.. According to business records there were 3 full time employees. It averaged 40 to 50 residents. It was in business for 30+ years. Primary contact for this business is Harvey Wasserman. Secondary contact was Steven Wasserman. Both of the Wassermans are brothers. Harvey is a developer,Steven is a dermatologist,formerly with an office at 1111 Avenida del Circo. Incidentally Steven was convicted and fined 26.1 million dollars for Medicare fraud.
In the same buildIng as the Whispering Sands, there was an outpatient rehab facility known as Florida Sunshine Rehab (1996), psychiatrist (1998), and Bayside Speech and Rehab 2004). The retirement home was closed in 2003.
Harvey Weissman decided to convert Whispering Sands into a rental apartment facility. It functioned as this until 2007.
Weissman then decided to convert the facility into a resort named as West Beach Resort. Weissman began the process of gutting the interior and building 300 square feet suites with screened patios. 56 units were planned. Long range plans that never materialized included a six story building and a revolving restaurant.
Dissolution of Corporation
In 2012, Wasserman opened the 200 seat Grille at West Beach and the first 12 rooms of a planned 56 room resort.
The resort employed seven people.
The Resort closed in August, 2013.. Factors involved in its failure were location and lack of a swimming pool. Another factor mentioned in only one source.was the presence of asbestosis in the building. This would incur a huge expense to remove.
Recently, the owners of this property has petitioned to property rezoned so that they can increase the number of housing units built. They have received tentative approval of this petition.
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