Daytona Beach Owner Refuses to Sell Boardwalk Assets to City

ORLANDO-The Boardwalk at Daytona Beach, a former vacation area for the J.D. Rockefeller family in the 1930s, needs an immediate facelift but a Daytona Beach property owner is holding up the project, city officials confirm. They may have to take Dino Paspalakis to court to resolve the issue.

Paspalakis and family members couldn’t be reached at GlobeSt.com’s publication deadline. But friends of the family tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity Paspalakis is adamant in permanently keep his three arcades businesses and the Joyland Amusement attraction in his family no matter what price the city offers him. The businesses were started by the owner’s father.

The 40-year-old arcades are on an estimated two oceanfront acres where Daytona Beach has been trying to redevelop the decaying Main Street Pier area for the last 35 years.