Baxter Simons News Today

"Here's what's going on in a nutshell; they don't want us back in there," said Paradise Ocean Club owner Baxter Simons. "They're trying to force us not to take the lease by making it as rough on us as they can. And there's no hiding that, it is blatant."

The fate of the Paradise Ocean Club at Fort Monroe remains up in the air as the club’s owner is accusing the National Park Service of allowing the building to fall into disrepair and deliberately delaying lease negotiations. Club owner Baxter Simons said he’s being “stonewalled” by the park service as he attempts to renegotiate the terms of a new lease of the property, where he operated the ...