By Jane Smith
Delray Beach fared okay during Hurricane Irma, said Mayor Cary Glickstein the day after Irma’s tropical storm-force winds damaged trees and downed powe
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Rob Barron, the dune management consultant for Delray Beach, said he was pleased with how the dune plants weathered Hurricane Irma's winds.
Category 1 storms with winds around 80 mile per hour are beneficial to the dune system, Barron said.
"The plan
By Jane Smith
Linda Cross, who lives in the Marina Villages condo complex in Boynton Beach, said her family lost power the morning of Sept. 11for about 90 minutes.
"We had power the entire time of the storm ," she said. "The water flowed over the sea
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach is on its way to living up to its brand of being a safe haven for trees.
In early August, the Delray Beach City Commission unanimously approved an updated tree ordinance making preservation the No. 1 priority.
“If
By Jane Smith
The developer of Midtown Delray Beach was able to put its appeals on hold while it creates a new site plan for the proposed project.
The Delray Beach City Commission granted the stay in early August.
Under city rules, the
By Jane Smith
Want to see the roof of the Old School Square garage turn into a disco at night?
That activity was proposed after a weeklong charrette on transit-oriented development, made possible by a $141,000 grant from the Federal Tra
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
New gazebos on the north and south ends of Delray Beach’s municipal beach will soon be constructed with a $40,000 donation from the Lattner Family Foundation.
The promenade contractor will build them for the city, Project Manager
Ariana Ciancio, the Delray Beach Police Department’s service population advocate, talks with homeless people at Libby Wesley Park. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Soon after she arrived in Delray Beach as the Police Department’s new
By Jane Smith, Dan Moffett and Rich Pollack
Coastal towns in south Palm Beach County are flush with cash thanks to their shares of the voter-approved penny sales tax increase that started in January.
The money began flowing into municipa
Atlantic High coach T.J. Jackson grew up in Delray Beach amid hardship some of his players face. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Janis Fontaine
From Delray to Dallas and back, Tavarius “T.J.” Jackson is a success story.
Jackson earned his
Hudson Holdings
The Delray Beach developer specializes in “bringing history back to life,” according to its website. Here’s a look at its properties outside Florida:
Louisville, Kentucky: Republic Building (built in 1912) — Hudson paid slightly more
By Jane Smith
Hudson Holdings had its attorney write a warning letter to a state board, threatening to file an injunction unless it delayed the National Register review of the Old School Square Historic Arts District, said a principal of the Delra
This building would be constructed at the southwest corner of Atlantic and Swinton avenues
Historic homes would line Swinton.
Renderings/Randall Stofft Architects
Related stories: Builder seeks to block historic designation for district | Hudson Ho
By Jane Smith
Beleaguered by increasing overdoses in the city and receiving little help from state and federal agencies, Delray Beach leaders plan to sue big drug makers. They want to offset the financial drain on their public safety budget of res
By Jane Smith
Two large coastal cities in southern Palm Beach County passed group homes regulations in mid-July.
The new rules, designed to rein in rogue operators of sober homes while preserving the single-family character of neighborhoods, co
By Jane Smith
The city’s Historic Preservation Board in late June turned down Midtown Delray Beach, a mixed-use project proposed by Hudson Holdings, in two 6-0 votes.
The board met for nearly eight hours over two days.
Midtown, at the southwest corner
I am addressing the Editor’s Note, “Extra drive time a necessary nuisance this time of year,” that appeared in the June 2017 issue of The Coastal Star.
Upfront, I totally agree with the opinion that most construction projects on the barrier i
By Jane Smith
The rainy weather in the first half of June did not delay the contractor working on the promenade along Delray Beach’s municipal beach, a city staffer said.
But the contractor has asked for a three-day extension because of the
By Jane Smith
The height of the sea wall in Veterans Park will soon be raised to a uniform level and the two docks there rebuilt, after the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency agreed in late June to pay for the work.
The agency could pay
