Welcome to Rehoboth! Everybody (almost everybody) who visits Rehoboth Beach loves it. Families love it so much they come back year after year. They tell their friends, and they come year after year.
Rehoboth is family friendly, quaint and has a vibrant downtown. Most every nice beach town has a "welcome" sculpture, garden, lighthouse, or even a totem pole (Bethany). Even though Rehoboth has the lighthouse at the circle, most people would agree the real entrance and first glimpse of Rehoboth is the traffic light at Coastal Highway and Rehoboth Avenue intersection.
For first-time visitors, it's the main entrance to Rehoboth.
Now we have this ugly building going up (not sure what it is, but I hear it's a warehouse) right on that corner. It is atrocious. What zoning board approved this? What were they thinking? Maybe I'll eat my words when I see the finished building, but right now it is just not what we want our awesome town to look like when we come in to town.
A really nice tribute to the town and its earliest settlers would have been perfect.
Ken Silverstein
Rehoboth Beach
Editor’s note: The land on which the soon-to-be storage facility sits is in Sussex County jurisdiction, not the city of Rehoboth Beach. The parcel is zoned commercial, thus the new building didn’t need any special permission.
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