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Last Updated: Dec 29, 2011 - 2:18:31 AM |
Photo courtesy of Richard Brown
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FLORIDA - Local writer and
magazine editor Diane Phillips, right, presents a copy of Air Currents magazine
featuring a story on West Palm Beach's
revitalization to the city's Mayor Lois Frankel, following a presentation by
Phillips to the WPB City Commission. The South Florida city's $30 million
rebirth caught the magazine's attention with many of the city's issues mirroring
those in Nassau,
where the editor is based.
"Like cities throughout the world that have
fallen victim to a rush to the suburbs and more recently to gated communities, West Palm Beach had to
play by the two basic magnets of winning friends and influencing business to
move back in," Phillips wrote. "It had to be clean and safe. But
beyond that it had to create an environment that made a statement and offered a
wow factor."
The article helped celebrate West Palm Beach's success story and the
official opening of the 'new' city, an event that drew some 80,000 people. The
magazine's cover featured an architectural re-birth closer to home, the Bullion
in the British Colonial Hilton. Air Currents is the official in-flight
publication of Continental Connection operated by Gulfstream International
Airlines, serving approximately one million passengers a year between Florida and The Bahamas.
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