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South Palm Beach: Two oceanside condos repair sea wall breach, settle code case with town

Posted by The Coastal Star on February 2, 2022 at 13:20

ABOVE: Frustrated residents at Horizon East did not have access to the swimming pool as they waited for repairs to be completed. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star RIGHT: Photos from a report show erosion under the pool deck and repair efforts to correct t

South Palm Beach: Erosion damage at three condos prompts urgent push for repairs

Posted by The Coastal Star on December 29, 2021 at 13:24

By Joe Capozzi

The Champlain Towers collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside in June weighed heavily over a special magistrate’s hearing last month when South Palm Beach officials voiced concerns about erosion damage to three oceanfront condominium

Art unveiling: Mayfair House, South Palm Beach – Feb. 24

Posted by The Coastal Star on March 1, 2017 at 13:46

Penny Davidson, known around South Palm Beach as the town’s unofficial artist-in-residence,

unveiled her latest mosaic on Feb. 24. Davidson has created dozens of public art pieces

installed throughout the town over the years and says this one depicts

South Palm Beach: Mayfair helps Imperial to get seawall done

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on April 29, 2010 at 13:10

By Tim O’Meilia

The Imperial House might not wash into the sea this hurricane season after all.

Construction of most of a new $500,000 seawall to protect the 58-unit cooperative fromunrelenting erosion was completed just as turtle-nesting season

Mayfair House board offers beach access to Imperial House

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on February 4, 2010 at 14:25

By Tim O’ Meilia The Mayfair House has come to the rescue of the Imperial House, a nearby six-story co-operative in South Palm Beach in danger of collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean during another angry nor’easter. The Mayfair House, five buildings no

South Palm Beach seeks county intervention in beach dispute

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 31, 2009 at 11:01

By Tim O’Meilia With the Imperial House facing another winter without a seawall, the South Palm Beach Town Council voted on Dec. 15 to ask Palm Beach County to intervene in a dispute between the condominium and the town of Lantana over beach access.

LANTANA: Town remains at odds with co-op over beach access

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 31, 2009 at 10:59

By Margie Plunkett The Lantana Town Council dismissed as “insulting” a counterproposal from the Imperial House to pay $5,000 for beach access to fix its failing seawall, and said it would investigate if, under an agreement for emergency work, it cou

Imperial House’s beach work runs into brick wall with neighbors

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 3, 2009 at 12:15

By Tim O’Meilia Thirty-three years ago Bonnie Fischer found the dream retirement home — an affordable first-floor oceanfront condominium apartment at Imperial House with a view of a beach several hundred feet wide. In mid-November, an angry north wi

Lantana stands firm on beach access costs

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 3, 2009 at 12:00

By Margie Plunkett Lantana council members took a hard stand against helping the neighboring Imperial House condominium building at taxpayers’ expense and said it would charge $213,500 to allow the co-op to stage equipment to fix its rapidly deterio