By Rich Pollack
With a Feb. 1 meeting hosted by county leaders just weeks away, Highland Beach condo presidents from nearly two dozen buildings gathered last month to brainstorm a strategy aimed at stopping the county’s long-delayed development of Mi
The Planning and Zoning Board has recommended the City Council approve plans for a 70-unit residential building at the southwest corner of Palmetto Park Road and A1A. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
After years of negotiations and design changes,
A bridge connects the 164-room Mandarin Oriental hotel to the building that will house 85 residences on the left as part of the Via Mizner complex at the northeast corner of Federal and Camino Real. The 366-unit apartment building at right opened in
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach leaders think a state law requiring many condos to stash sizable sums of dollars in reserves following the 2021 high-rise collapse in Surfside is at best unnecessary and at worst an astounding stretch of authority.
Now
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach commissioners in early August gave tentative approval to a revised condominium recertification ordinance that incorporates changes passed by the Florida Legislature.
While much of Highland Beach’s original ordinance rem
By Rich Pollack
Armed with newly minted building recertification requirements drafted following the collapse of Surfside’s Champlain Towers South, Highland Beach’s building department has begun notifying a handful of condominium associations and othe
By Rich Pollack
For almost four decades, officers and managers of condos east of Federal Highway in Boca Raton and Highland Beach met regularly to share information and to listen to key speakers on topics that affect them all.
Now, with the collapse
Condos line A1A at the south end of Boca Raton. A Coastal Star analysis of property records shows 79 condos on the barrier island in Boca Raton. Of these, 61 were built prior to 1982. Google Maps
By Mary Hladky
A proposed Boca Raton ordinance will
Condos line the beach in Highland Beach. An analysis done by The Coastal Star of Palm Beach County property records shows 74 condos or co-ops located in Highland Beach. Of these, 38 were built prior to 1982. Google Maps
By Rich Pollack
Hoping to ensu
Condos line the beach in Highland Beach. An analysis done by The Coastal Star of Palm Beach County property records shows 74 condos or co-ops located in Highland Beach. Of these, 38 were built prior to 1982. Google Maps
By Mary Hladky
The Beach C
Parking for the county’s proposed Milani Park would be in the grassy area west of A1A (upper left). Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
For more than 30 years, Highland Beach and residents of the Boca Highland Beach Club and Marina have fought county pla
By Sallie James
A seven-story, 70-unit luxury condominium will soon rise on the southwest corner of South Ocean Drive and East Palmetto Park Road, with sprawling penthouses, 8-foot-wide sidewalks and a public park along Palmetto Park Road.
The
A 2003 memo was found as city officials analyzed why the mixed-use Mark at CityScape near Federal Highway and Palmetto Park Road is less attractive than promised. File photo
By Mary Hladky
The approval process for proposed downtown Boca Raton pro
By Dan Moffett
Wellington Arms Condominium homeowners and developer William Swaim are lawyering up for a legal border war that could determine the fate of the mangrove-rich lagoon behind Ocean Ridge Town Hall.
For nearly two years, Swaim has been
The Boynton Intracoastal Group marked its kickoff with a meet-and greet party at the home of Boynton Beach City Commissioner Michael Fitzpatrick and wife Lisa Hanley. Residents from Sterling Village, Snug Harbor, Seagate of Gulfstream, Hampshire Gar
ABOVE: Tom Vinci, 90, a resident of the Sabal Point Condominiums in Boca Raton, poses with his artwork — intricately painted squares similar to the stenciled designs created by his father. BELOW: Gay ‘Gigi’ Vela holds a hand-woven mohair jacket she
Carol Wittenberg
By Rich Pollack
Carol Wittenberg loves her 2013 Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid that runs on both gas and electricity.
“It’s environmentally friendly, it’s economical and it’s comfortable and quiet,” she says.
But when Witten
Mary Kate Leming
By Mary Kate Leming, Editor
On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew’s shredding of Homestead and the Miami area, and seven years since Katrina’s flood waters devastated New Orleans, Tropical Storm Isaac breezed through our are
By Tim O’Meilia
Briny Breezes’ neighbors can rest easy. The oceanfront town-mobile home park has scotched any thought of high-rise condos and oceanfront hotels and will focus on a more low-key future — at least for now.
The nine-member board of
