By Jane Smith
Delray Beach city commissioners conceded in mid-April that the diesel-spewing trolleys would have to operate on Atlantic Avenue for another two months. If they hadn’t, First Transit would have stopped driving the city trolleys on April
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By Jane Smith
Starting April 1, the Delray Beach Fire Department began sending letters to East Atlantic Avenue restaurants reminding them of city rules.
The owners will be required to comply with set occupancy limits and follow a city code provision
By Jane Smith
The Downtowner open-air vehicles will return to Delray Beach streets in May.
The same company received a fixed-route contract to replace the downtown trolley at the March 28 Community Redevelopment Agency meeting. The two contracts
By Jane Smith
Construction work to replace the pavers in four barrier island crosswalks on East Atlantic Avenue has stopped for the season and will resume in May, according to a Delray Beach department head.
The four crosswalks at the intersections o
By Jane Smith
Trolley service was scheduled to return to downtown Delray Beach on Nov. 1.
The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board, made up of the city commissioners and two citizens, voted 6-1 on Oct. 22 to pay for three months of the trolley
By Jane Smith
Work is underway at two Delray Beach barrier island intersections to replace the crosswalk pavers.
The replacement work at the Atlantic Avenue intersections at Gleason Street and at Venetian Drive will be finished Dec. 3, said Isaac Kov
By Jane Smith
To meet growing traffic demands, the state will do a $5.2 million construction project at the Atlantic Avenue Interstate 95 interchange in Delray Beach.
The project will begin in September and is expected to last slightly longer than on
By Jane Smith
Two weeks after the parking meters were activated in downtown Delray Beach, the City Commission agreed on July 10 to issue two types of parking passes for residents. One pass is available to any resident who can show a utility bill or a
Butch Johnson pauses outside his Delray Beach restaurant, 32 East, as he nears the end of a 22-year run on Atlantic Avenue. The buyers will make the site a Louie Bossi’s. Thom Smith/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
Sometime after Mother’s Day — 22 yea
By Jane Smith
After more than 10 years of discussion, city leaders are inching their way toward paid street parking in downtown Delray Beach.
In mid-August, the five city commissioners each presented their wishes for downtown parking on Atl
By Jane Smith
Free parking along Atlantic Avenue west of the Intracoastal Waterway is about to become a thing of the past.
Delray Beach city commissioners directed staff to look into installing meters along the avenue to increase turnover f
Randy Ely (left) and Nicholas Malinosky have joined Douglas Elliman to take advantage
of the brokerage’s international exposure. Their office is in Delray Beach.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Randy Ely and Nicholas Malinosky joined Douglas E
By Rich Pollack
Thinking of crossing Atlantic Avenue or State Road A1A in the middle of the block or of riding your bicycle in traffic with earphones on?
If so, you may want to think again, because police officers in Delray Beach will be out in
By Jane Smith
Property values continue to increase by double-digit percentages in Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency area.
When the county property appraiser released its 2016 taxable value estimates on May 27, the numbers showed a 13.2
Members of the New Hampshire Police Association pipe and drum corps provided some of the entertainment.
Britt Usher of Boca Raton was decked out in her finest green.
Delray Beach celebrated its annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade along Atlantic Avenue i
By Jane Smith
After more than a decade of work, Federal Highway in Delray Beach is back to its roots as a thoroughfare with two lanes in each direction.
In the mid-1970s the road was widened to three lanes before the state Department of
By Tim Pallesen
City commissioners gave final approval to new downtown development rules on Feb. 24 despite a threatened lawsuit by the owner of Old School Bakery.
The new rules limit the heights of future buildings to three floors on Atlantic
By Rich Pollack
You’re driving north on State Road A1A, approaching Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, when from between two parked cars you see someone start walking out into your lane of traffic.
You stop to avoid hitting the pedestrian but
By Tim Pallesen
Plans for an iPic theater near Atlantic Avenue came to a temporary halt Dec. 15 after it appeared that the city of Delray Beach and its Community Redevelopment Agency had failed to communicate.
The CRA chose iPic Entertainme
Jestena Boughton, with her dog, Lucy,
in front of the Colony Hotel on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
The size for future buildings on Atlantic Avenue is suddenly up for debate after a plea to city c
