By Dan Moffett
Two recent mediation sessions have done little to resolve lawsuits filed by developer William Swaim against the town of Ocean Ridge and Wellington Arms condominium owners.
For the last three years, Swaim has been trying to persua
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Ocean One’s residential units will rise just south of Boynton Beach Boulevard on Federal Highway. Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach commissioners, sitting as the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board in early July, unanimously
By Dan Moffett
The running joke in Briny Breezes during the last month has been that the town might soon be able to score a huge windfall by investing in telescopes.
A nudist group was pushing Palm Beach County to allow a clothing-optional b
By Rich Pollack
Drive along State Road A1A and you’ll see the subtle signs of a steadily recovering economy.
In Manalapan, several older homes have been bulldozed to make way for new and larger luxury homes that are rising out of the ground.
A short
By Dan Moffett
An administrative law judge in Tallahassee has rejected developer William Swaim’s request for a permit exemption that would allow him to build an access road behind the Ocean Ridge Town Hall.
Judge Bram D.E. Canter agreed with attorneys
SOURCE: PBC Property Appraiser. Graphic by Bruce Borich/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Developer William Swaim wants Ocean Ridge to create an access road to property he wants to buy in the mangrove-filled lagoon behind Town Hall.
Residents along the
By Tao Woolfe
The height and density of downtown buildings, traffic congestion, annexation and the expansion of Florida Atlantic University are among the top issues in the Boca Raton City Council race.
Questions about those issues were fielde
By Mary Hladky
The wait for people yearning to live in downtown Boca Raton is finally coming to an end.
The first downtown apartment complex to be built in nearly a decade, the 261-unit Camden Boca Raton at 131 S. Federal Highway, began ope
By Mary Thurwachter
A proposal to redevelop the retreat property owned by the Catholic Cenacle Sisters into a high-end rental community took a step forward on April 23 when the Lantana Planning Commission gave its blessing to a needed zoning chang
A high-rise would fill the former Bank of America land at Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. Rendering provided
By Thomas R. Collins
Towers of offices, rental apartments, shops, restaurants and a hotel would further fill in the Boynton Beach downt
Live Work Play: Second of a three-part series looking at the downtowns of Delray Beach, Boca Raton and Boynton Beach
Derek Vander Ploeg (right), architect for Mizner Park, walks across the plaza. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Boca
By Tim Pallesen
A Trader Joe’s grocery store and eight restaurants might be too much to squeeze onto a 10-acre site near the Linton Boulevard Bridge, a city advisory panel says.
The developer of the proposed Delray Place project east of Federal Highway
Australian pines along A1A are part of Gulf Stream’s signature look. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The hammock of dense growth will remain along A1A in front of the old Spence property in Gulf Stream — noxious non-native plants incl
Larry Thomas Jr., general manager of Salt 7 restaurant, crosses Northeast Second Avenue at Atlantic Avenue in downtown Delray Beach. City officials say downtown Delray Beach is especially attractive to multifamily housing developers because the city
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach commissioners gave first approval of a rezoning that would allow a shopping center on the southeast corner of Linton Boulevard and South Federal Highway, despite an outcry from the waterfront neighborhood behind it.
The view of the construction site from one neighbor’s driveway used to be blocked by a banyan tree, vines, shrubs and other vegetation. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Forget the day-in, day-out clank-clank-clank of bulldozers lev
Remembering the Wilflower: click here.
The former Wildflower site, at Palmetto Park Road and the Intracoastal, as it now looks.
Photo by Jerry Lower
Harley Gates stands in front of the original home on the
Lantana Council has dubbed the Cenacle property on Dixie Highway commercial, reversing an earlier vote that returned it to residential following a failed deal to sell it to a luxury hotel developer.
Council members reconsidered the i
By Margie Plunkett
The retreat property owned by the Catholic Cenacle Sisters will return to a residential land use after a deal to build a luxury resort on the Intracoastal property fell apart.
Council members voted Oct. 28 to restore the original
By Angie Francalancia
Leaders in the coastal communities were rejoicing over the recent news thatcontroversial Senate Bill 360 had been declared unconstitutional — a bill they believed would have opened the door to rampant coastal development and
