By Mary Hladky
A cultural arts group’s ambitious proposal to build a performing arts center at Mizner Park moved closer to becoming reality on Oct. 13 when the City Council unanimously agreed to enter into negotiations to reach a deal.
The Boca Raton
By Mary Hladky
Lord & Taylor is closing its Boca Raton store in Mizner Park and has filed for bankruptcy court protection along with its new owner, clothing rental company Le Tote.
The venerable retailer, which traces its roots to 1826 in New York, jo
ABOVE: Fronted by an improved plaza, the renovated amphitheater is shown to the left, adjacent to a new theater building with circular staircases. BELOW: Inside, the 450-seat performance space shows a digital exhibition but could accommodate an array
By Mary Hladky
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District wants to stop making payments to the city to pay off a Mizner Park bond debt, and instead wants to redirect the money to park improvement projects.
The district asked the city’s Community R
By Mary Hladky
A cultural group has scaled back its ambitious proposal to build a performing arts complex on city-owned land east of the Spanish River Library and instead wants to locate it on two city-owned parcels next to the Mizner Park amphitheat
Lord & Taylor President Vanessa LeFebvre visits the Mizner Park store last month before hosting a luncheon to outline changes and seek feedback on how the store can improve. She heard no criticisms from the people who spoke. Tim Stepien/The Coastal S
By Mary Hladky
Mizner Park’s owner, Brookfield Property Partners, is considering exercising its option to buy much of the land underneath the shopping and dining destination from the city.
The sale of the so-called retail lease, one of four 99-year M
As with past celebrations of ‘Chanukah Under the Stars,’ music will be an important part of the Dec. 7 event, with three choirs performing. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Thanks in part to a Jewish Outreach grant from the Jewish Federation of Sou
ABOVE: Despite the cool weather, the event was a family affair with the Schneider family — Mark and Jessica with children Joey and Nathan (in stroller) — in attendance.
BELOW: Erica Falls — touring with New Orleans funk and jazz jam band Galacti
By Mary Hladky
The Boca Raton City Council has made one thing very clear: The Mizner Park Amphitheater is safe — for now.
Media reports about a developer’s offer to build a 1,500-seat indoor performing arts center within nearly 30 city-owned ac
The Related Group would demolish Mizner Park Amphitheater and replace it with 400 residential units. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
A major developer has approached city officials about creating a public/private partnership to develop city-owned
When it opened in 1991, the shopping complex transformed Boca Raton’s downtown into an urban hub
Courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
TOP: The Boca Raton Mall in the ’80s. ABOVE: Cars turn onto Plaza Real in Mizner Park, which replaced the m
Story and photos by Mary Thurwachter
Mizner Park, with its Spanish-styled courtyard, 44 shops and restaurants, art museum, amphitheater, iPic Theater, fountains and large gazebos, has been around for 25 years and continues to enjoy wide appeal. Visi
The book of a lifetime – the life of Boca Raton philanthropist and community activist Florence A. “Flossy” Keesely — will soon be available.
The memoir that’s been more than a year in the making, will be unveiled on Keesely’s 100th birthday
Children are overjoyed as Santa Claus arrives during their performance of ‘Santa Claus is Coming
to Town’ at the Nov. 27 Holiday Tree Lighting at Mizner Park. The performance was one
of the many attractions at the free holiday festival, culminating
Hamid Hashemi, iPic Theaters. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
Long ago and far, far away, Hamid Hashemi couldn’t get enough of movies. His mother would take him and his brother and sister to the local cinema in Tehran, Iran, every Frid
VIP guests of the 2012 Oscar Night American Palm Beach event pose for a photo on the red carpet at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton before the start of the Oscars telecast on Feb. 26. Pictured from left: John Oxendine, president of Blacksta
By Jan Norris
Boca Raton’s mayor and her staff got a leg up on movie-goers at the new iPic theater slated to open this summer in Mizner Park.
Hamid Hashemi presented Susan Whelchel and a few council members with their own monogrammed pillows and blan
Land-use planning consultant Charlie Siemon lives and works at Mizner Park.
He helped create the original vision in the early 1990s for the mixed-use downtown
development, and has overseen Festival of the Arts Boca since its debut in 2007.
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By Steve Plunkett
Coming soon to a shopping mall near you — a decidedly 21st century movie theater with “premium-plus” leather recliners, pillows and blankets, and someone to take your food and cocktail order at the start of the show.
An artist’s re
