Scott Wessel, owner of Scotty's Landing, lives a charmed life. For so many years he didn't pay taxes on the properties (including the Grove Harbour Marina) and he got away with it. He never so much as put a coat of paint on Scotty's and don't get me started on the food. If it wasn't for the bay view, there would be no Scotty's Landing. Now he has made some sort of deal with Grove Bay, the developer of the Waterfront Project. Yesterday, Scott put out a letter, writing very glowingly of the project. Amazing, one day he is down and out and now he is in the game.
The promise to him was the Scotty's name will live on at the Waterfront Project and so will his staff. I really don't see either happening, I highly doubt Shula's Steakhouse is going to change their name to Scotty's Landing and I have never heard of a whole staff being hired at a new restaurant without applying for the job and going through training and most not making it.
But that doesn't matter. The issue is that now Grove Bay is paying off people in various ways, which, if it was an above board project, they would not have to do that. Reminds me of the neighborhoods being paid off in the Mercy project years ago. Same thing. Only that ended in a blaze of flames.
Keep an ear out for something from Shake-A-Leg Miami, word is that they have been offered something, too, for a glowing letter.
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