By Rich Pollack
While some communities are facing financial shortfalls and need to increase revenue for the coming budget year, Highland Beach will hold the line on its tax rate while anticipating only a small tap into reserve funds.
Faced with a bud
By Steve Plunkett
City Council members gave the go-ahead June 23 to seek bids to build a connected Wildflower/Silver Palm park after staff and their outside consultant trimmed $2.75 million from the plan.
Gone are a small stage and “some other tweaks
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton property owners will see a minuscule decrease in the city’s property tax rate if the tentative rate set on July 23 wins final approval.
“Taking direction from our goal-setting session this spring, staff is not recommending a
By Christine Davis
In December, Delray Beach developer Craig Menin’s Rosebud 110 LLC paid $31 million for a retail and office building at 110 E. Atlantic Ave. from a company tied to RMS Properties, a Schaumburg, Ill.-based property management firm. M
By Steve Plunkett
The Beach & Park District may not have to use eminent domain to seize two controversial properties on the oceanfront.
Arthur Koski, the district’s executive director and legal counsel, has been negotiating a way to take possession o
By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach fin
By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach
A tree-trimming crew removes Norfolk Island pines in Briny Breezes.
Town residents decided to take out the fragile trees well ahead of hurricane season.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
As we head into the 2016 hurricane season, it’s not too early
By Tao Woolfe
The Palm Beach County property appraiser's staff is still crunching numbers, so the specific municipal increases in property taxes for 2015 are not yet available. But Property Appraiser Gary R. Nikolits, spoke about the general upwards
By Tim Pallesen
It began with a request to give homeless people a shower — and ended with city commissioners saying the Caring Kitchen must move.
Christians Reaching Out to Society, known as CROS Ministries, serves nearly 100,000 hot meals to poor peop
By Steve Plunkett
Boynton Beach has dashed its dreams of soon seeing a thriving law firm, two residential towers and a flagship hotel downtown.
After almost a year of negotiations, the Community Redevelopment Agency on Dec. 10 withdrew its re
By Steve Plunkett
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will give away land under the Little House Restaurant and the Oscar Magnuson house — the city’s oldest structure — to lure a Delray Beach law firm and jumpstart development downt
