BY MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
GLASGOW NEWS 1
Park City Mayor Larry Poteet announced at Monday evening’s city commission meeting that a land purchase they’d wanted to happen for several months was completed.
A relatively small portion of the eastern northeastern edge of the roughly 17.29 acres adjoins property already owned by the city near Bell’s Tavern Park and behind Park City Lions Club building. It’s also behind, or south of, Integrity Feeds Inc., which sold the city the land that’s along Old Dixie Highway along its western edge.
The intended primary use is the development of an amphitheater, he said.
“Also, we’re going keep a boundary around it, because it’s a wooded area right now,” Poteet said. “We’re going to keep at least a 30-foot buffer around it to add to the walking trail that’s already there, to where we can use it for multiple things other than just one.”
Park City Mayor Larry Poteet straightens papers as he presides over Monday’s regular city commission meeting. MELINDA J. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1
After the meeting, Glasgow News 1 asked for more information about it, and Commissioner Mike Burgess volunteered, “It’s beautiful!”
Poteet said the price was $172,000, and the closing was last Wednesday. The property is all within the city limits, he added.
The mayor said he believes it will be a great way to get tourists to his town and further tie in with Mammoth Cave National Park.
“It will help the whole county,” he said.
A stage area would be constructed, but the seating area would remain natural, he said.
He and Burgess, who is the tourism liaison for the commission, starting naming off the tops of their heads the different types of acts they’d like to see there: outdoor concerts, plays, comedians ….
“We’ve been working on the land for, what, almost a year?” Poteet said, glancing at Burgess, who nodded, but the notion of using it for an amphitheater came about six or seven months ago from Commissioner Angelo Scavo, who was absent from Monday’s meeting, along with his wife, Donna Scavo, who is also a city commissioner.
“It came from him doing karaoke at the park and so many people coming,” Poteet said. “And he kept seeing more and more people, and the tourists that was staying at the bed and breakfast and stuff would actually come over there at night when they were doing it. And it’s a possible good revenue for the city to where we can increase our law enforcement even more.”
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