Downtown Delray Beach will be the fashion scene again in late February. ABOVE: A model on the runway at Old School Square during Fashion Week 2020. RIGHT: SuSu Smith models attire from Hy Pa-Hy Ma boutique in Delray Beach. Photos provided
By Christine Davis
Marking its 10th anniversary, Delray Beach Fashion Week will be held Feb. 23-27. The event will begin with a runway show, “Living In Paradise,” from 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 23 at Old School Square Park, 50 NE Second Ave.
To take part in the Sunsational Shop & Sip, running throughout downtown Delray Beach from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 25, buy a ticket and check in at Rosewater Rooftop at The Ray Hotel, 233 NE Second Ave. Enjoy a continental breakfast with a complimentary beverage, and receive a goodie bag with specials from participating retailers.
Colors of the Tropics fashion show and luncheon will be on Feb. 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Meso Beach House, 900 E. Atlantic Ave. The Sand & Sea Fashion Event will be at 3 p.m. Feb. 26 at The Ray Plaza.
The Downtown Delray Beach Craft Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 along Northeast Fourth Avenue.
These events, except for the craft festival, require tickets. Proceeds benefit the Delray Beach nonprofit Achievement Centers for Children & Families.
For more information, ticketing and pricing, as well as event details, visit www.DelrayFashionWeek.com, Facebook.com/DelrayFashion, #DelrayFashionWeek, or phone 561-243-1077.
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On the first Saturday of the month through March, the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will host Crafted on the Ave., a new open-air craft market with a Caribbean flavor. The event will be held 1-4 p.m. at the Ida Elizabeth “Libby” Jackson Wesley Plaza, located at the corner of Southwest Fifth and West Atlantic avenues.
Crafted on the Ave. aims to give small and home-based businesses and local and regional crafters and artists an opportunity to promote and sell their work. There will also be Caribbean music and a do-it-yourself station, along with local food and beverages.
Market dates are Feb. 5 and March 5. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Mosaic Group at 561-651-9565, events@mosaicgroup.co or visit www.delraycra.org/events.
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To promote and celebrate black cultural awareness, three nonprofits in Delray Beach — the Community Redevelopment Agency, Spady Cultural Heritage Museum and Arts Garage — are presenting Authors Speak Series 2022.
Kicking off the series will be former Palm Beach Post pop culture columnist Leslie Gray Streeter, who will share insights from her memoir, Black Widow, at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10.
Streeter moved back to her hometown, Baltimore, two years ago, and this will be her first time back to Palm Beach County. In her memoir, she looks at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage and aging. This event will be held at the Arts Garage, 94 NE Second Ave.
To RSVP for this free Authors Speak event, contact https://artsgarage.org/event/authors-speak-the-impact-of-race-on-american-society-2/.
Further events in the series are scheduled for April 21 and June 16.
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Delray Beach welcomed the following new businesses as 2022 arrived: Renata Fine Arts at 502 E. Atlantic Ave., a gallery; Beach Paradise at 533 E. Atlantic Ave., a clothing store; Meso Beach House restaurant at 900 E. Atlantic, and Ardor Boutique at 1128 E. Atlantic.
In the Pineapple Grove Arts District, Sugaring Delray, a health and beauty store, opened at 200 NE Second Ave., No. 105. The Rové Salon opened at 200 NE Second Ave., No. 112, and Lulu’s Café & Cocktails opened at 189 NE Second Ave.
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The Seagate was included in Vogue’s annual roundup of “The 26 Most Anticipated New Hotel Openings of 2022.” For details, visit www.vogue.com/article/the-26-most-anticipated-new-hotel-openings-of-2022
Starting in May, The Seagate will undergo a full renovation to the hotel, spa, beach club and country club, led by the hospitality group Long Weekend, the design firm Studio Robert McKinley, and landscape architect Raymond Jungles. The new Seagate will open in phases beginning in November.
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James Farese, founder and CEO of ReachLink, was selected for the inaugural Forbes Next 1,000 list for 2021. ReachLink is a behavioral telehealth company that offers virtual therapy for mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Clients of ReachLink, which is headquartered in the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, include Aetna, United Healthcare and Humana.
“This honor is a reflection of the hard work of our whole team,” Farese said. “As a Boca Raton native, this is also representative of the fantastic environment that we have here in Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, and the state of Florida that empowers the building of social-impact businesses.”
The Forbes Next 1,000 list, presented by Square, consists of 1,000 entrepreneurs and small business leaders who are announced in groups of 250 quarterly.
“As we enter another pandemic year, entrepreneurs and small business owners are finding new ways to thrive amidst ever-uncertain circumstances,” said Maneet Ahuja, senior editor at Forbes.
“The fourth and final class of Next 1,000 entrepreneurial heroes is writing the playbook for not only achieving financial recovery but speeding past it. These sole proprietors, self-funded shops and pre-revenue startups are proving that — through resolve, hard work, and solid planning — anything is possible.”
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In January, Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services announced the appointment of Aliyah Longhurst, BCBA, LMFT, as director of the new Toby and Leon Cooperman Therapy & Family Resource Center.
The center will officially open in the spring at 21100 Ruth and Baron Coleman Blvd., Boca Raton, on the campus of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.
Longhurst will oversee the operations of the new resource center, which will provide children with varying needs and abilities affordable access to treatment and therapies. Most recently, Longhurst held the position of southeast regional director with Behavior Basics Inc., where her role encompassed providing applied behavioral analysis therapy and overseeing those services across Palm Beach County.
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The Boca Raton branch of Wells Fargo Advisors announced that Noah Rubin has been named managing director/investments.
“We are thrilled to add Noah to our burgeoning presence in South Florida, as he brings not only tremendous experience but is young enough for generations of families to trust he will be there to guide them,” said Michael Schwarzberg, branch manager. “He also has an impeccable reputation in the community and industry, even being a trusted FINRA arbitrator.”
Rubin, a certified public accountant, is past president of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Atlantic Chapter. He earned an MBA in global entrepreneurship from Florida Atlantic University and his bachelor’s in international economics from the University of Florida.
Seven years ago, he created the Noah Rubin Charitable Foundation, which provides grants for local charities. Rubin is active with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Wells Fargo Advisors’ Boca Raton office is at 5355 Town Center Road.
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The global commercial real estate firm Avison Young appointed Randy Buddemeyer as principal and managing director of its Florida region, with offices from Miami to Jacksonville. Buddemeyer joins from Newmark Knight Frank, where he was president of the property management services division.
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Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate brokerage firm that specializes in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services, announced in December the sales of a grouping of residences that are part of the 196-unit Delray Swan Project.
The project is being developed by Miami-based Rosen Associates. The eight-property portfolio sold for $4.738 million. Brian L. Rosen, first vice president of investments in Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office, closed on the portfolio.
The single-family home portfolio is part of a 14-parcel development totaling over 2.5 acres, two blocks south of Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. The project is now in site plan approval.
“There were many challenges in working with eight different owners from large REITs like Tricon homes, which own tens of thousands of units, to individual families that had lived in the homes for decades,” said Rosen. “We were able to offer above-market value even in today’s hot market while providing time for the developer to get their ducks in a row. We structured the deal to give the sellers time to secure new homes and forgo rent during this period.”
The properties are located at 219, 223, 227, 231, 237, 243, 251 and 253 SE First Ave. According to Delray Beach property records, the land use category was amended from medium density to commercial core and rezoned from residential to a central business district.
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For the 2021 holiday season, agents and staff of Lang Realty decorated their offices with angel trees with names of people in need.
“This year, our agents and staff identified people in our community who would benefit from this program and might get overlooked by larger programs,” said Scott Agran, president of Lang Realty. “We had angels ranging from small children to grandparents, some of whom never received a gift for Christmas. This project is truly inspired by our Lang team members with the hopes of making a difference.”
Each angel included a wish list for the adoptee to fulfill, and the presents were delivered at a holiday event held at Lang’s central Boca Raton sales office, where the attendees also enjoyed holiday treats.
$75 million listing tops hot month for Manalapan
An ocean-to-lake Manalapan estate, “Villa Oceano Azul,” 1400 S. Ocean Blvd., was listed in January for $74.99 million. The seven-bedroom, 16,609-square-foot house and guesthouse, sited on 1.85 acres with about 200 feet on the ocean and Intracoastal, is offered turnkey, features two swimming pools, a 50-foot dock on the Intracoastal, and garage parking for six cars.
The owners, Francis A. and Dolores Mennella, bought the estate in July 2016 for $25.2 million, according to public records. The house, built by Dale Construction with interiors by Marc-Michaels Interior Design, was completed in 2015 and developed by Manalapan real estate investor and Mayor Pro Tem Stewart A. Satter, who purchased the property for $6.8 million in December 2010. The listing is held by Philip Lyle Smith and Carla Ferreira-Smith, broker-owners of Luxury Resort Portfolio, Delray Beach.
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The estate at 860 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan, owned by Dr. William Joseph Gueck and his wife, Mary Deann, sold for $32.25 million on Jan. 11.
Sited on 1.6 acres, with about 150 feet on both the ocean and Intracoastal Waterway, the main house has 8,443 total square feet and the guesthouse has 1,344 square feet. According to realtor.com, the estate features a home theater, billiards room, artificial turf with putt-putt golf course and tennis court, and an infinity pool.
The new owner is a Florida limited liability company, 18500 Von Karman Ave., #600, Irvine, California. Also shown in public records on Jan. 11, the buyer was issued an $18 million loan on the property by a Delaware company named USC 860 S. Ocean LLC, 233 Broadway Suite 1470, New York — which is the same address as Urban Standard Capital, a real estate lender, development and investment firm in New York City.
Douglas Elliman Real Estate agent Gary Pohrer handled both sides of the sale, according to realtor.com.
The Guecks bought the estate in September 2015 for $13,756,250 from Russian businessman Aleksander Popov. Joseph Gueck is a retired Missouri physician of internal medicine and principal at SurgCenter Development. Deann Gueck is an attorney.
Pohrer listed the estate at $35 million at the beginning of October, according to realtor.com. The house was built by developer Frank McKinney.
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The ocean-to-lake 1960s-era geodesic-dome compound at 1860 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan, owned by Jeanette Cohen as trustee of an irrevocable trust in the name of her husband, Stephen D. Cohen, has gone pending.
The Cohens’ estate, which they bought in 1978 for $620,000, is currently priced at its land value at $27.5 million. William Raveis South Florida agent Shelly Newman listed it for sale for $29.9 million in late May 2021 but later dropped the price.
She said the closing date was scheduled for July 8 but may be sooner.
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The late Selma H. Orleans’ estate at 1300 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan, sold on Jan. 12 for $26.25 million through trusts held by her children, Jeffrey P. Orleans and Patricia Orleans Siegel, in separate deeds. The one signed by Patricia Siegel recorded at $14,437,500, while the one signed by Jeffrey Orleans recorded at $11,812,500.
Selma, who died in September 2021, and her husband, Marvin Orleans, who died in 1986, built the five-bedroom custom home in 1983 on the 1.35-acre lot with 160 feet of oceanfront and 200 feet on the Intracoastal Waterway.
It was listed last October for $27.95 million, according to realtor.com. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented the seller. Per the deed, the buyer was 1300 South Ocean LLC, a Florida limited liability company, which was represented by Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates, according to realtor.com.
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Medical-device entrepreneur Marlin E. Younker sold his Manalapan estate at 1880 S. Ocean Blvd. for $19 million on Jan. 12. He and his wife, Lynda G. Younker, since deceased, bought the estate through trusts in their names in 2011 for $5.1 million.
The 1980s five-bedroom, 10,200-square-foot house sits on 1.8 acres, with 150 feet fronting the ocean and 150 feet on the Intracoastal. Features include a movie theater, elevator, summer kitchen with pizza oven, 60-foot saltwater lap pool and spa, and new dock.
Douglas Elliman Real Estate agents Nick Younker and Nicholas Malinosky represented the seller. Agent Shelly Newman of William Raveis South Florida handled the buyer’s side of the sale.
The buyer is a Delaware-registered limited liability company, RX Colorado LLC, which is co-managed by Dr. Ravi Xavier and his wife, Rosemary. Dr. Xavier is an anesthesiologist and president of Florida Anesthesiology & Pain Clinic.
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