This eight-bedroom French-inspired estate on the ocean in Highland Beach
is on the market for $31.9 million, almost double the record sale in the town.
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By Christine Davis
It’s already a show-stopper, but when it sells, it will be a record breaker. This 23,625-total-square-foot Highland Beach French-inspired eight-bedroom estate at 2455 S. Ocean Blvd., is offered by Ocean Estate Properties agent Beverly Knight, for $31.9 million.
Designed by Madey Architects New York and built by Mark Timothy Luxury Homes, with interiors by Marc-Michaels, it’s in the Byrd Beach estate section on almost 2 acres with 150 feet of beachfront. Features include a club room and bar, epicurean’s kitchen, two-story library den, wine room, stone fireplaces, gym, guest house, caretaker’s cottage and high-tech theater.
According to public records, Bruce Leeds bought the property for $5.8 million in 2011 from the Henry D. Martin Trust, Safford Denise V Trustee and Victoria J. Martin Trust. Leeds is a vice chairman of Systemax.
The highest sale for Highland Beach to date was $16.53 million for 3901 S. Ocean Blvd., which sold this year. Previously, the highest sale was $15.3 million in 2003 for 2445 S. Ocean Blvd.
Frank McKinney’s “green” mansion, Acqua Liana, 620 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan, is back on the market for $26.5 million, listed by Cristina Condon, an agent with Sotheby’s International Realty. Condon said the owners have many vacation homes and aren’t spending enough time here to keep it.
Marny Glasser, chairwoman of Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Advisory Board, recently was awarded the University’s Board of Trustees Service Award.
After donating her late husband, Harold Glasser’s, World War II collection to the university’s Wimberly Library, she established the Harold Glasser Endowment Fund, which she continues to enhance annually.
In 2013, she helped form the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Advisory Board, and last year she donated one of her sculptures, Moon Escape, to the university. Through her leadership, the board has raised more than $340,000 in support of programs.
Palm Beach Day Academy celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony on its lower campus at 1901 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, in May. Its new education center will house classrooms and labs for students up to third grade.
The two buildings on site will be demolished over the summer, with construction scheduled during the 2016-17 school year.
In recent years, the school raised $17 million to upgrade its two campuses. In Phase 1, it acquired land for the West Palm Beach campus, improved its Palm Beach campus and built its Smith Family Theater and Matthews Performing Arts Center.
Harbour’s Edge resident Dr. Leonard Sutton cuts the ribbon
with Lifespace President and CEO Sloan Bentle
to mark the opening of the community’s new dining venues.
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In April, Harbour’s Edge, a senior living community at 401 E. Linton Blvd. in Delray Beach, celebrated the opening of its three new dining venues: a casual eatery, a formal steakhouse and grill, and a private dining room. These were part of a $20 million project, with the final renovation phase, featuring a media center, library and performing arts center, to be completed later this year.
CC Hodgson Architectural Group is the designer for the project and Plaza Construction is the contractor.
In May, Artis Senior Living celebrated its grand opening. The memory care community is at 5910 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton.
Tanya Abreu, founder of WOW Health Group, has created a new women’s health concierge service at 1682 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, headed by Dr. Immacula Michel, in conjunction with the WOW Arts Warehouse, which serves as an exercise, dance, music and event community center.
Coming up at an introductory evening at the WOW community center, guests are invited to stretch their physical and mental boundaries with yoga teacher Marilyn DeMartini, at “In Your Dreams Yoga” to live piano music by Niki Parker at 6:30 p.m. on June 7. At a wine-and-cheese reception following the class, Dr. Joel Klass will present insights on how to learn from dreams.
The class, reception and presentation cost $20 and will be held at the WOW Arts Warehouse, 3681 N. Dixie Highway, Suite 7, Boca Raton. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Dream Ride for Special Olympics.
To register, call 866-376 0632, or email Bianca@wowhealthgroup.com. For information, call 866-376-0632 or email deanna@wowhealthgroup.com
The board of directors of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts elected Michael J. Bracci as board chairman, effective July 1.
Fresh Kitchen, 2202 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, offers juices, smoothies, salads, wraps and healthy dishes. The 2,500-square-foot restaurant is the sister restaurant of Juice and Java Café on Andrews Boulevard. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as take-out and catering. Hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m., to 6 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
A location of Lucille’s Bad to the Bone BBQ will open mid-August in the Delray Market Place at Lyons Road and Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. For information, visit badtothebonebbq.com.
In April, Feeding South Florida, a regional domestic hunger-relief organization that has a new warehouse in east Boynton Beach, was awarded the Nonprofit Business of the Year distinction by South Florida Business Journal for its innovative practices, diversity initiatives, community service, employee programs, workplace environment and strong financial performance.
Through a local network of nonprofit partner agencies, Feeding South Florida distributes almost 40 million pounds of food annually, serving 785,040 individuals throughout Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
In April, Boynton Beach resident Tina Philips, president and CEO of the Palm Beach Habilitation Center, received The Commonwealth Institute’s Top 10 Women-Led Businesses in Florida Award in the not-for-profit category for the third year in a row. Philips’ center provides employment, job placement, residential and retirement services to men and women with mental, emotional and physical disabilities.
Clinics Can Help, which seeks donations of medical equipment and supplies, is looking for used wheelchairs. It provided $820,000 in reusable medical supplies and equipment last year, said Owen O’Neill, the nonprofit’s executive director and founder.
“Thanks to generous donations of equipment and funds, we are able to provide hundreds of wheelchairs to children and adults who are in critical need every year. However, the demand is growing.”
To donate, call 640-2995 or visit www.clinicscanhelp.org.
In May, local nonprofit organizations raised more than $3 million during the third annual Great Give, sponsored by the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties and the United Way of Palm Beach County.
Of that amount, the Kretzer Piano Music Foundation received $3,200 in donations, which earlier gave a musical send-off to Great Give at a mini-concert. At that event, five talented young people played painted pianos at CityPlace, West Palm Beach. Boca Raton resident and artist Silvana Delbo painted one of pianos: “Melodic Liberation” for the Quantum House.
Daniel Brassloff, a senior at Atlantic High School in Delray Beach, Victor Espidol, a senior at Boynton Beach High School, and Melanie Camejo Coffigny, a senior at Lake Worth High School, were selected by the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council to receive this year’s Daniel S. Hall Social Justice Award scholarships.
Brassloff, founder and president of We the People, an equality club, will be attending Babson College to study social entrepreneurship. Espidol, founder of the Boynton Beach High School Gay-Straight Alliance, will be attending the University of Florida to study biology. Coffigny, founder and president of her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, will be attending Duke University in the fall to study neuroscience.
In May, the National Endowment for the Arts approved an Art Works award of $10,000 to the Palm Beach Poetry Festival to support the organization’s 13th annual festival, to be held next January in Delray Beach.
Suzanne Duff, a professor at Palm Beach State College, is one of 40 Under 40 to watch,
the American Association for Women in Community Colleges says.
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In April, Professor Suzanne Duff, department chairwoman for human services programs at Palm Beach State College, was named to the 40 Under 40 list of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges. Starting as an adjunct instructor in psychology and human services before going full-time in 2012, Duff, 35, became Human Services Department chair in 2013.
She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University and is working on her Ph.D. in educational leadership at Florida Atlantic University.
Palm Beach Travel’s founder, Annie Davis, has received her Tahitian travel specialist certification and is now recognized by the Tahitian Tourism Department as a preferred specialist. Palm Beach Travel is in Plaza Del Mar at 257 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. For information, call 585-5885 or visit www.mypalmbeachtravel.com.
Matthew Kutcher, an executive director and financial adviser with J.P. Morgan Securities, received the James and Marjorie Baer Outstanding Young Leadership Award for his outstanding efforts on behalf of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and the Jewish community.
As of May 1, Joseph Arthur Rooney Sr. took over as acting president and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, as it continues a search for a permanent president and CEO. Rooney’s past work experience includes management with Marriott Corp., Chesterfield Hotel and the Palm Beach Kennel Club. He serves on the board of overseers for the American College Dublin and the board of directors of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association.
Donald Trump’s former butler, Anthony Peter “Tony” Senecal, will be guest speaker at a Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club luncheon, which will be held at 11:30 a.m. June 8 at the City Fish Market, 7940 Glades Road, Boca Raton. To RSVP, visit www.goldcoasttigerbayclub.com/registration.
Maria Hirt was named Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa’s director of sales and marketing. Previously, she served as director of marketing at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts in Austin, Texas.
The League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County, ACLU Palm Beach County and the National Council of Jewish Women Palm Beach County Sections are co-hosting “Why Courts Matter,” a lunch-and-talk series focused on how the lives of Floridians are affected by judicial vacancies and court decisions.
The second talk in the series, “The Role of the Courts in Voting Rights,” is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 15, when Julie Ebenstein, staff attorney for the ACLU Voting Rights Project, will explore the impact the Supreme Court has had on voting rights.
Also, Linda Geller-Schwartz, state policy advocate for the National Council of Jewish Women, will suggest ways in which advocates can help educate the public about why courts matter.
The luncheon will be held at the Atlantis Country Club, 190 Atlantis Ave., Lake Worth. The cost to attend is $30. Attendees can register online at www.lwvpbc.org.
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority’s Dine Out Downtown Delray Restaurant Week 2016, Aug. 1 through 7, will offer prix fixe multicourse lunch and dinner menus and various culinary experiences.
To take part, diners select their choice from the list of participating restaurants and merchants and make a reservation. Beginning July 1, for information and a list of participating venues, visit downtowndelraybeach.com or call 243-1077.
Send business news to Christine Davis at cdavis9797@gmail.com.
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