Should Venice’s Seaboard area be redeveloped?
VENICE – Sam Lubus, a machine manufacturer in Venice for about 20 years, worries about the future of his business if the area where it is located undergoes the type of sweeping redevelopment being talked about at City Hall.
Inline Filling Systems is in Seaboard, an industrial zone of factories, auto shops, warehouses and other businesses that have provided jobs for decades.
Seaboard, named for a long-gone railroad, is the gritty part of the city where laborers get their hands dirty and nary a tourist can be found.
No decorative streetlights here. No sidewalk dining or window shoppers, as you will find just across the Intracoastal Waterway drawbridge that separates Seaboard from downtown.