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
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By Steve Plunkett
The city’s downtown post office is staying put, postal officials announced July 5.
The U.S. Postal Service told Boca Raton in February that it had been unable to get a new long-term lease on the facility at 170 NE Second Street.
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By Jane Smith
Billy Himmelrich and his business partner are suing Delray Beach for $6.9 million over a 2015 decision that limited the height they can build on properties they own on Atlantic Avenue.
In February 2015, the City Commission placed a thre
By Jane Smith
Free parking in downtown Delray Beach ended in late June.
The city has installed 32 smart parking kiosks on Atlantic Avenue between Swinton Avenue and the Intracoastal Waterway and one block north and south of Atlantic.
Meters are enfo
By Jane Smith
Free parking in downtown Delray Beach is coming to an end.
In late May, the city started installing 32 smart parking kiosks on Atlantic Avenue from Fifth Avenue west to Swinton Avenue. One block north and south of Atlantic also will hav
By Mary Hladky
City officials are asking owners of downtown private parking garages and surface parking lots if they are willing to allow the public to use their surplus spaces.
This effort is a step toward alleviating the downtown parking crunch, wh
Shops in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea have distinctive style with paneled windows and carved doors. Photo provided
By Jane Smith
Downtown Delray Beach has a certain indefinable something, called an X-factor by urban consultant Bob Gibbs.
In late
Signs ask residents to fight to keep the post office downtown, and the Postal Service says it’s trying to cooperate as it plans to relocate the facility. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Residents who packed a room in the Community Cen
By Mary Hladky
Shared-ride businesses operating downtown soon will have six locations where they can park until passengers contact them to be picked up.
The waiting areas also will give the shared-ride vehicles greater visibility.
Three of the waiti
The face of downtown Boca Raton continues to change. The former Citibank and SunTrust buildings are being demolished to make room for the project that will include the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Boca Raton. The 1
By Steve Plunkett
The U.S. Postal Service says its downtown post office is too big and it wants to move into smaller quarters, according to Mayor Susan Haynie.
The office at 170 NE Second St. is about 8,000 square feet; Haynie said postal officials
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach has a thriving downtown that is the envy of cities nationwide. With some changes, the city could create “a world-class shopping district” that is sustainable through recessions, said Robert Gibbs, an urban design consultant
By Mary Hladky
A new downtown construction spurt will be starting soon.
Demolition work started in January to make way for the Mandarin Oriental Boca Raton hotel and Monarch Boca Raton, the new name of the Mizner 200 luxury condominium.
Coming down a
327 Royal Palm, a 100-foot-tall, 24-unit condo just south of East Palmetto Park Road, is among the smallest of the new buildings. Only about 17 percent of space available for downtown development remains. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Projects underw
By Mary Hladky
Three days after the Boca Raton City Council pressed both sides to reach a compromise in the contentious battle over the proposed Mizner 200 luxury condo, the combatants met at architect Derek Vander Ploeg’s office in late July to s
By Mary Hladky
Efforts to build a downtown parking garage are bolstered by a new study that finds Boca Raton needs more public parking.
The peak demand area around Mizner Park needs 108 more parking spaces now, and that number will grow to as m
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton residents and visitors suddenly seem poised to have plenty of alternatives to driving their cars around downtown.
After talking for months about what type of transportation services should be offered to lessen traffic
By Jane Smith
The days are numbered for people taking shortcuts across the FEC train tracks in downtown Delray Beach. The city plans to install pedestrian barriers by the end of the summer.
In mid-January, the City Commission approved a pedestr
By Jane Smith
City leaders and railroad officials want to prevent another pedestrian from dying while illegally cutting across the tracks in downtown Delray Beach.
In early August, a woman left Johnny Brown’s on Atlantic and took a well-used sh
