Investments Limited has submitted a proposal for a pair of nine-story towers with a total of 266 guest rooms to be built where the post office now stands downtown. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
James and Marta Batmasian, the largest commercial pr
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 Jane Smith
Delray Beach won in appellate court the ability to keep its downtown height cap at three stories.
“It’s a big win for the city,” Mayor Shelly Petrolia said Feb. 16, the same day the ruling was announced. The appeals court ruled that the
By Mary Hladky
Investments Limited is moving forward with plans for an extended-stay hotel on a prime piece of downtown property in Royal Palm Place.
The largest commercial property owner in the downtown notified the city of its intentions in early
Eau Palm Beach in Manalapan boasts a 3,000-square-foot oceanfront terrace, two pools, a large fitness center and a deluxe spa. Room amenities include marble baths and inviting balconies, most with ocean views. Photo provided by Eau Palm Beach
By Chri
Wright by the Sea, for 68 years a family-owned hotel at 1901 S. Ocean Blvd., is being razed July 26 to make way for 19 luxury residences on the almost 2-acre beachfront parcel. The new enclave is named Ocean Delray. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Construction of the Ray, a 141-room hotel in Delray Beach, is expected to begin later this summer. Rendering provided
By Christine Davis
Delray Beach-based Menin Development landed a $72 million loan to finance construction of the Ray, a 141-room ho
Company discards plan to build two mixed-use projects in downtown plaza
By Mary Hladky
Investments Limited has withdrawn plans for redeveloping two portions of Royal Palm Place and instead wants to build an extended-stay hotel and restaurant on th
By Steve Plunkett
An online blog report of a proposal to build a Ritz-Carlton hotel on the Ocean Strand park property caused ripples of concern among neighbors of the undeveloped barrier-island parcel.
Joe Pedalino, a vocal activist against a 2009 id
By Dan Moffett
The Manalapan Town Commission and the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa are teaming to lawyer up against a planned beach stabilization project that would install seven concrete groins along the oceanfront in South Palm Beach.
Mayor Keith Wat
The 29-room hotel will be demolished to make way for a condo project. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
This will be the last Thanksgiving holiday that Dorothy Gay “GiGi” Wright Vela, her siblings, their children and grandchildren will gather for di
From left, the five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel and its adjacent condos will join the existing 101 Via Mizner luxury apartments on Federal Highway north of Camino Real. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
Construction will begin soon on the downtown
Renderings show the Gulfstream in perspective, above,
and in a Lake Avenue streetscape.
Courtesy of JRA Architects, Louisville, Ky.
By Jane Smith
One of the owners of the historic Sundy House in Delray Beach recently received approval to renova
Lance Shaner, owner of Shaner Hotel Group, and Mike Sformo, Operation Backbone’s founder.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Lance Shaner was in Buffalo several months ago for what he thought was simply the opening of the new Buffal
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
By Tim O’Meilia
About that plan to build high rise condos, an oceanfront hotel and shops where the mobile homes of Briny Breezes have set for decades?
Never mind.
The nine-member board of the corporation that owns the park unanimously decided April
Bathers relax on the beach at the old Boynton Beach Hotel, probably around 1920. Images courtesy of the Boynton Beach Library
By Ron Hayes
In the winter of 1899, it was “a quiet place with pleasant surroundings … away from the hurly-burly of large,
By Tim O’Meilia
Five years ago, a developer figured the homey oceanfront mobile home park of Briny Breezes was worth half a billion dollars if it were decorated with high rise condominium towers, a pricey hotel and several hundred time-shares.
By Tim O’Meilia
Five years after a half-billion dollar sale collapsed, Briny Breezes’ 43 acres of ocean-to-Intracoastal mobile homes is on a land developer’s shopping list.
An unnamed development firm has pitched the idea of erecting twin 20-story t
