Mizner Park has been sold to four groups, it was announced Nov. 6. The buyers include CP Group, the direct descendent of Crocker Partners, the company headed by developer Tom Crocker that originally launched the downtown Boca Raton retail, restauran
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Code enforcement director also heeds request to leave
By Larry Barszewski
Less than a week after Delray Beach city commissioners raised the city’s tax rate at their Sept. 22 meeting — a meeting that included testy exchanges on the commission and bet
Northwest growth could complement downtown without replacing it
The Boca Raton Innovation Campus is a landmark complex of brutalist architecture originally designed in the late 1960s. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Related: Birthplace of PC won’t bur
Related: Along the Coast: King tides carry startling power, impact
By Steve Plunkett
As if rainy, windy weather and October king tides weren’t enough to deter trips to the oceanfront, eight south Palm Beach County beaches were closed for a week to sw
Winds escalate days of flooding described as worst in decades
ABOVE: Waves crash into the Boynton Inlet lifeguard stand on Oct. 27. BELOW: Dimitriy Khaydarshin watches Tobin Cultrera wade through floodwaters on Oct. 25 on Palm Drive in Briny Breezes
Related: BRiC evolving into a new focal point for city
By Mary Hladky
Now that Related Ross has acquired the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, the iconic former IBM campus is likely to undergo yet another transformation.
But Jordan Bargas, executive vic
By Mary Hladky
Deputy City Manager Jim Zervis has been appointed as Boca Raton’s interim city manager, replacing Mark Sohaney, who resigned on Oct. 15 after serving just over one year in the city’s top position.
The City Council tapped Zervis to take
Palm Beach County has always been a land of economic extremes. Just a decade ago it was easy to generalize and say
Todd and Stacey Breen of Boca Raton recently made a seven-figure gift to the Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation. Their donation will enable renovation of a reception area in the main lobby of the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute
Staff report
The 2027 municipal races are already shaping up. In Delray Beach, Commissioner Juli Casale has announced she will challenge Mayor Tom Carney in the March 9 mayoral election. In Boca Raton, eight candidates have signaled their interest in
Louder pickleball play coming to Little Club — Members of The Little Club will get to swap their softer, quieter balls and paddles for standard, noisier gear under a pilot program approved by the town.
In 2023, Gulf Stream town commissioners let club
County Clerk of Courts — Boca Raton City Council member Yvette Drucker, a Democrat, easily defeated Republican Mike Caruso, who is facing felony child sexual abuse charges and was removed from the position. She received about 62% of the vote.
U.S. Ho
By Brian Biggane
In a move that Mayor Tom Carney termed “a bad look for us” and ultimately voted against, the Delray Beach City Commission at its Oct. 13 meeting awarded JCD Sports Group a new five-year contract to run the city’s two tennis centers.
Municipal leaders unsure how they will make up lost revenue
By Rich Pollack
Florida’s homestead exemption will be increasing next year — meaning additional savings to large numbers of homeowners — following the passage of Amendment 3, but lawmakers m
By Mary Thurwachter
Although Lantana leaders have no immediate plans to dispose of three valuable waterfront properties owned by the town, they want to change the Town Charter to make it easier to sell them.
Currently, selling any of the three proper
By Larry Barszewski
Ocean Ridge will have a say after all in a dispute initiated by Manalapan over the sand transfer plant at the Boynton Inlet.
Manalapan is seeking to reduce — or stop — operation of the plant, which takes sand building up north of
By Larry Barszewski
After Ocean Ridge spent five years trying to work out a deal for Florida Power & Light to take ownership of street lighting on the town’s portion of East Ocean Avenue, it turns out sea turtles will have the last word.
That came as
Town clerk promoted — Ocean Ridge’s town clerk has been given an added title: assistant town manager. The promotion for Kelly Avery, who has been the town clerk for four years, took effect Oct. 1.
Avery previously worked in the clerk offices in Gulf
Residents pack council meeting, cite safety concerns
Related: South Palm Beach: Man arrested after allegedly attacking mother at Mayfair
By Brian Biggane
When South Palm Beach Vice Mayor Francesca Attardi proposed over the summer that the Town Counci
Related: South Palm Beach: Violent incidents prompt calls for greater PBSO presence
By Brian Biggane
South Palm Beach, despite its reputation as a quiet beachside community, experienced a second traumatic incident in a 17-day span when a man allegedl
