Recently at the city’s Historic Resources Preservation Board meeting, Bonnie Miskel, a land-use and zoning attorney working with developer Hudson Holdings, was making her best pitch as to why the board should approve a key zoning change to allow the $60 million Gulfstream Hotel site restoration project to inch forward.
Miskel spoke in a language all board members — and city officials — understand: dollars and cents.
Eight percent of Florida’s economy, Miskel cited from a state website, is based on tourism, a $67 billion industry.