Jacob’s Entertainment Public Meeting - Be in the Room (Thu, Aug 13, 6 p.m.)
Jacobs Entertainment, Inc. — the company behind the proposed sea-to-sea development around Governor's Harbour — has called a community meeting for Thursday, August 13, at 6:00 p.m. at the Workers House. Jeff Jacobs and his consulting team will present their plans and take questions.
This is the developer's meeting, framed on the developer's terms. The most valuable thing our community can do is show up in numbers, informed, and ask the questions that matter.
In plain terms, the plan is built around selling home lots along our Atlantic beaches to finance itself, with help from government land and a new push to sell real estate. Gaming has been reshaped from one casino into several smaller "gaming salons." It's a large plan with a lot of moving parts, and it's worth reading the coverage before the meeting.
Read the coverage:
The Tribune reported on the plan on August 4 - the lot-sales financing, and whether it's in the country's interest to use Crown land at Navy Beach to guarantee a developer's sales.
Protect Eleuthera has published a section-by-section, plain-English breakdown of the developer's document.
Questions worth bringing:
Why is a development this size being pushed into a settlement as small as Governor's Harbour, and who decided it belongs here?
What will happen with our public beaches and public beach access?
Why should the government give up public Crown land to a guarantee a private developer's sales?
Why do the plans place major parts of the project, including a solar farm and new roads, on land the developer does not own?
Given the company's existing struggles, can this project actually be financed and finished, and what protects Eleuthera if it stalls?
What experience does the developer have building and running luxury residential and resort communities in places like The Bahamas?
Why is gambling being introduced into Eleuthera, and how will that impact our communities?
What kinds of jobs and economic opportunities will be for Bahamians?
Our power, water and housing are already stretched. Why should residents believe this project eases that instead of making the situation worse?
We support development that fits the scale, values and infrastructure of a Family Island. Come to the Workers House tomorrow and help put that standard on the record.
Can't make it? Add your name at ourgovernorsharbour.org and forward this to a neighbour.