BRINY BREEZES — Patricia “Pat” Albers Esterman died May 10. She was 89.
Born July 7, 1931, in Cincinnati to Frank and Blanche Albers, and married for 65 years to Harry Esterman, Mrs. Esterman was a devoted mother and homemaker with a professional car
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By Mary Hladky
The developer of the luxury condo now rebranded as Alina Residences Boca Raton has cleared two hurdles in its effort to build the 384-unit downtown project in two phases.
The Community Appearance Board recommended that the Community Red
By Mary Hladky
The proposed Midtown development faces significant new obstacles as a result of conditions imposed by both city staff and a city board that would delay the start of construction, reduce the size of the project and possibly torpedo
Critics have complained that Mizner 200 is too large and would obstruct sunlight and views for adjacent buildings. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton City Council members have demanded yet another redesign of the proposed Mizner 200 l
The plans for the 384-unit Mizner 200 condo complex have been through a few revisions.
Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
Nearly three years after a developer first proposed a luxury condominium now named Mizner 200, the city’s most controversia
By Sallie James
Malka Cabral begged Boca Raton’s Planning and Zoning Board to reject plans to construct a 50-foot-high parking garage at Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
The proposed garage would overlook her home 100 feet from her property line.
More than 60 Briny Breezes residents, including speaker Joe Coyner, showed up at the April 27
council meeting to complain about a proposed ordinance that would create
a magistrate position to resolve building code disputes.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal St
Condo balconies are cantilevered.
Rendering by GS4 Studios
By Sallie James
A proposed six-story, 70-unit condo complex slated for the southwest corner of South Ocean Boulevard and East Palmetto Park Road got a thumbs up from Boca Raton’s Planning
By Mary Hladky
Crocker Partners was hoping for quick action in December when the developer asked a city board to approve ordinances that would set the stage for 2,500 rental units and a Tri-Rail station at Midtown just east of the Town Center at B
Mature canopy trees, like these live oaks at the Delray Beach Historical Society complex,
are being targeted for preservation with the legacy tree program.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
They are trees that catch your eye.
They
By Jane Smith
The iPic movie theater moved closer to becoming a reality after a Delray Beach review board approved site plans in mid-January. Next stop for the mixed-use project will be the Feb. 22 meeting of the Planning & Zoning Board.
In con
The Delray Beach Planning and Zoning Board on Oct. 19 passed the final portion of the design guidelines for the city’s eastern half. Next they will be reviewed by the City Commission.
The guidelines cover architectural styles to “ensure harmon
By Sallie James
When it comes to marijuana or anything related to its use, the city’s Planning and Zoning Board wants Boca Raton to just say no.
For another year at least.
At a Sept. 15 meeting, Planning and Zoning Board members voted to rec
The east view of the proposed iPic theater complex. The area at lower left is where a ‘living wall’
has been proposed to soften the street level view of the building.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
City commissioners smoothed the way for the
By Sallie James
They say three times is a charm. But in the case of Chabad of East Boca Raton, it was actually more.
After four hours of lengthy discussion, City Council members late July 28 voted 5-0 in favor of the ambitious beachside orthod
By Sallie James
A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 staunch supporters and fierce opponents of a controversial beachside synagogue packed Boca Raton City Hall last month for a showdown about the project’s site plan.
But they left without r
By Sallie James
A plan to build a Houston’s restaurant on the old Wildflower property near the Intracoastal Waterway continues to draw ire.
At a Planning and Zoning meeting last month to change the density and zoning of the northern part of the
During a March 29 celebration held on the proposed site of the Harry and Celia Litwak Chabad Center,
Rabbi Ruvi New recognizes Irving Litwak (right) who donated $2.7 million for the property in his parents’ honor.
The sign in the background anticipat
By Tim Pallesen
A proposal to allow personal watercraft rentals at the Atlantic Avenue bridge has coastal residents in an uproar.
City commissioners will hear the proposal to rent watercraft such as Jet Skis and Waverunners at the Deck 84 rest
A rendering for the proposed 7-Eleven shows 8-foot-wide
sidewalks and enlarged window panels.
Rendering provided by Mummaw & Associates
By Margie Plunkett
The highly contested redevelopment of a property at 800-899 E. Palmetto Park Road —includi
