Editor’s note: The following Facebook comment stream is in response to an Indian River Guardian story reporting on plans by the City Council to explore leasing the Riverhouse in MacWilliam Park to Orchid Island Brewery.
Kristopher Cousino Same kind of person who would insist on a power sale regardless of the monetary outcome is the same kind of folk who will also sell off other city assets. You’ve sold our soul to the devil. Good luck getting a refund before we’re all in “Hell.”
Marianne Thomas Eric Leonhard Michael Starckx this is what I was talking about
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Marc Snediker Micro breweries are usually good pieces in city redevelopment puzzles. But that’s because they can take difficult, underutilized real estate and create a destination in places where vacancies are the norm. They are not nearly as good when they are displacing useful public assets. This is a dumb idea.
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Renée Ann Martinson This is a horrible idea. We really don’t need another drinking establishment, we don’t need the noise & traffic this would create, we don’t need this beautiful little area turned into something commercial that would benefit the owners more than it would benefit the citizens of Vero Beach! NO
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Inside Vero Certainly it is not the City’s responsibility to provide you a place to run your business.
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Inside Vero Grow in the wrong way, and you’ll, indeed, fade away.
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Chris Gauthier Bad idea for many reasons the biggest problem I see would be just the parking alone you have a ballfield you have a dog park and then you have the boat ramp it’s hard enough to park a boat and trailer over there now as it is never mind the other list of problems
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Inside Vero Go for it.
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Adam Brobst I recall that a part of said park is now fenced off and private, a bunch of kayaks sitting around. This happened at another park I’ve gone to since I was a teenager(south county). Where we’d play football and hit golf balls is now privately owned. None…See More
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Dennis F. Stanton Let me say this, I love the breweries and I’ve been to a lot of them. I don’t drink a lot but I enjoy trying new things…
I don’t agree with putting a brewery down by the dog park, for number of reasons. Parking is an issue you’ve got the boaters and …See More
I don’t agree with putting a brewery down by the dog park, for number of reasons. Parking is an issue you’ve got the boaters and …See More
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William Burnam Oh jeez… what a pretentious bunch of wimps Vero has become!
That micro brew is the classiest most modern upgrade to that city in decades.
How many of you whiners are simply pissed they didn’t build it on your more affluent side of town? … so now …See More
That micro brew is the classiest most modern upgrade to that city in decades.
How many of you whiners are simply pissed they didn’t build it on your more affluent side of town? … so now …See More
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Indian River Guardian 
Question: Is it legal to have alcoholic beverages in a public park? Either way putting a business in this park is a bad idea. Do I smell recall election in the air?