Good Move with the compulsory acquisition of the gladstone road property. This seams to be one of the properties that was acquired with a BOB toxic loan and was turned over to the Special purpose vehicle Resolve Bahamas LTD and the last owner has failed to meet the payments. Let the acquition of this resolve property be president setting on the entire resolve portfolio.Dead beats should be made to pay up or face seizure of their assets.It is past time for the political croonies to face the music Renovation cost would be much less than building a post office from scratch and there is ample parking. The only down side is it is outside of the city limits

Now they just need to make gladstone road two lanes in each direction and fix the stupid single lane going into that round about by the lake.

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Oh Yea - i mean i feel for the employees but this although cheap will just have more bahamians already dependant on fossil fuels buring more to go waste paper mailing something.. Way to stick to your manifesto FNM... so much for reduction of fossil fuel dependence and our environment.

The old post office should be converted to a hospital (on budget) to address women and child health issues. That would automatically create more room at PMH for expansion of other services!

Phil Lightbourn was always nothing but a compulsive gambler who lost everything once Ben Frisch of Beaver Street Fisheries in Jacksonville, Florida had had enough of him (and the Bahamas) and sold the once very lucrative Bahamas Food Services to Sysco Foods, a publicly listed corporation in the U.S. Frisch knew when he left the Bahamas that Phil Lightbourn would quickly be left with little more than his ornately gold capped teeth, and deservedly so. Before falling flat on his face though, Phil was able to stiff BoB with unpaid loans totaling many millions of dollars, thanks in large part to Hubiggity and Vomit keeping BoB's doors open for the worst kind of lending to cronies. This is all pretty much common knowledge throughout the inner corridors of the downtown business and political community. The old Phil's Food Store building on Gladstone road is about as run down as the General Post Office is on East Hill Street. What a joke!

Good idea to relocate the General Post Office .......... but Town Centre Mall would have been a better site ....... Gladstone Road is far off the beaten path for downtown PO box holders and other businesses who were accustomed to going downtown.

As for the old PO building ...... Perfect site for new Parliament and PM's official residence.

Towne Center Mall would have been a conflict of interest for Brent Symonette

and also a traffic naightmare and parking nightmare.

i avoid going there because of inadequate parking.

But relieving a PLP bosshog of his bad investment is no problem????

The cinema complex is supposed to turn a portion of Gladstone Road into a dual carriage way and government is supposed to complete it. They are also supposed to extend Soldier Road from Blue Hill Road all the way to the Airport. The work by the movie complex was supposed to be completed by now as that business is scheduled to open next month, which is also when the government is scheduled to start its roadworks . But the issue is how does this move fit in with Minnis ‘ plan to revitalize the inner cities. Will a post off substation be put in the area?

AS someone with a N post box are these to be moved out there? Or will they stay downtown? I already tell friends to not send boxes via regular mail as you won't get it, or it will come in time for your next birthday. Seems to me you must have something downtown for people and businesses in this area.

The old post office should be demolished and a hotel built there. Great Views of the entire Island, direct walk down to Bay Street, Queens Staircase. The top floor should be a bar/restaurant. Would attract many cruise ship passengers for the view.

You mean like the beautiful old hotel that used to be across the street in front of it?

The old post office is to be demolished but will be replaced by another building for government offices. The US Embassy is going across from it on East Street so maybe they will make provisions for a postal sub office in that building to avoid that long drive to Gladstone for rental boxes.

Good, maybe they will eventually mail my important document to the US that I sent Dec 1st 2017 and was never received.

Since downtown parking is a problem, it would be a good idea to turn the old post office into an indoor parking lot similar to the Hilton's. That should generate some serious income.

What was the purchase price .???.
...and amount pf Resolve Debt that was paid for it??????.....and if less who is the individual(s) responsible paying more for a debt than what it is worth???........taxpayers money must be accounted for!!!
1 in 8 persons go to bed hungry and people are in the soup lines!! Hospital need beds, ambulamces, ventilators, wards to be fixed..!!L

Is the government going to offer incentives for typewriter repair companies now?

GIVE UP - the USPS and CanadaPost are scaling back to nothing. Follow the example OR have UPS or FedEx take it over.