By Jane Smith
The owner of the proposed iPic luxury movie theater in downtown Delray Beach received a seventh extension of a purchase contract from the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
The agency extended the contract until Jan. 31 to all
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By Jane Smith
The head of the Community Redevelopment Agency was handed her walking papers when its board members voted 3-2 to not renew her annual contract.
A small, loyal group of Boynton Beach residents spoke in support of Vivian Brooks’
Riverwalk developers say they need 10 stories for the project to “break even.”
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency advisory board squeezed in an interim meeting in late July and reviewed two-thirds of t
By Jane Smith
Artists, videographers and other creative types can look forward to the June opening of the Arts Warehouse, after Hatcher Construction & Development won the bid to convert the vacant building into an arts incubator.
The Delray Bea
By Mary Hladky
After months of effort, Boca Raton now has a stopgap policy intended to make its downtown more visually appealing.
But a final policy won’t come for at least four more months as a city subcommittee studies the issue and makes add
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District is poised to freeze its annual contribution to the downtown Community Redevelopment Agency, meaning the CRA would get at least $132,000 less each year to keep the area pretty.
“Th
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency wants to consolidate plans in its six areas this summer with the goal of giving developers and residents predictability on what can be done at each location.
“We don’t want to mis
By Jane Smith
With clear direction from the new City Commission to save the historic Boynton Beach High School, the Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking a $350,000 matching grant to remove mold, mildew and other environmental hazards inside t
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency will have an additional $5.7 million to spend in the next budget year.
The extra money comes from an estimated 14.6 percent increase in property tax income and $3.6 million from th
By Jane Smith
The owner of the proposed iPic luxury movie theater in downtown Delray Beach received a sixth extension to its contract to allow the firm time to work out a parking agreement with the city.
The deadline is now Oct. 31, instead of
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By Jane Smith
The popular Arts Garage will soon be able to book bands for the summer, after its chief public provider decided to step outside its guidelines and aid the struggling arts venue.
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The Florida Department of Transportation is finishing work at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Venetian Drive.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach will have thinner landscape islands at the east Atlantic Avenue inte
A moving glass wall may enclose the Little House’s porch.
Renderings courtesy of AW Architects Inc.
Work proposed for the Oscar Magnuson House.
By Jane Smith
Craft beers and tapas are coming to two new restaurants on Ocean Avenue.
The owne
A walking path, seat wall and landscaping will be installed where the old dive shop building was razed in the Boynton Harbor Marina. Rendering courtesy of Boynton Beach CRA.
By Jane Smith
The last phase of the Boynton Harbor Marina will start i
Correction
An April story about the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency’s goal-setting session gave the wrong attribution about the reasons behind a proposed tax rate reduction. The CRA executive director told his board members that the
The eight-story Ocean One proposal might be joined later by a hotel and a larger, 15-story condo to the south.
Rendering courtesy of Cohen, Freedman, Encinosa & Associates
By Jane Smith
In a surprise move for area waterfront residents, the Boynto
By Jane Smith
Over the past 30 years, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency has spent the most in the West Atlantic neighborhood, according to an analysis released in late March.
In that area, its biggest expense, $24.1 million, went t
By Jane Smith
A Delray Beach agency scrapped responses from two potential partners and decided to go forward alone to turn its Arts Warehouse into an arts incubator.
“My position is that we made a promise to the artists,” said Paul Zacks, a boa
By Jane Smith
The popular Arts Garage venue received reprieves recently from two Delray Beach agencies, but the nonprofit organization can no longer rely just on its programming.
The organization needs a strategic plan, city commissioners and t
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach’s long-awaited property value analysis put numbers on what most people in the city already knew: The downtown core area saw the biggest gain in the past 30 years — at $649 million. Chris Wallace, president of Mu
