By Janis Fontaine
Palm Beach accountant Richard Rampell admits he is “not a happy camper.”
And NPR radio listeners aren’t going to be happy either. It looks like they won’t be hearing popular shows like Morning Edition or Marketplace over Palm
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The 15.65-acre Ziff estate reaches from the Atlantic Ocean to Intracoastal Waterway, dominating this aerial view of Manalapan north of the Boynton Inlet. Photo/Bing Maps
By Christine Davis
People born under the astrological sign Gemini are said to l
Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene has expanded his sizable Florida real estate holdings by purchasing the southernmost property in Manalapan, the 4020 S. Ocean estate formerly owned by longtime resident Ken Brown.
Greene was the sole part
Richie Podvesker, deli master of the store, directs a customer to the beer collection while handling the sandwich orders of a dozen customers at a time. He has been making subs and other meals for more than 21 years.
By Paula Detwiller
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By Steve Plunkett
Someone is wondering whether Boca Raton should buy South Inlet Park from the county.
County Commissioner Steven Abrams told Eric Call, the county’s parks and recreation director, that the city was asking about such a sale.
Built in 1924 and remodeled in 1988 and 2001, this Mizner-style beach house was one of the first homes built in Ocean Ridge.
The dining room is centrally located for access from both residential wings of this 2,700-square-foot home.
A lap pool is ne
Briny Breezes is officially off the market.
The 43-acre mobile home park’s contract with New York law firm Duane Morris to sell the park expired March 1 and, with it, the park’s obligation to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees tha
By Tim O’Meilia
The beleaguered Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, which has stirred South Palm Beach politics for five years, has been sold to a Delray Beach financier and investor in distressed properties.
The 58-unit, two-story motel on the ocean —
Volunteers Louise Glover, Maria Ellingsworth and Sue Goodreds staff the table at the Delray Beach Public Library’s first Bargains & Books event. Eager shoppers browsed through antiques, boutique merchandise, novelties, crafts and books — all set up i
The Chamber of Commerce will relocate from the old library site on Southeast Fourth Avenue so that the Community Redevelopment Agency can sell the property, appraised at $2.6 million, for development. Commission consensus supports the move.
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Between the two of them, Connie Wichman and owner Bruce Wenzel have worked more than 95 years at the store. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
When Bruce Wenzel started operating Mercer Wenzel in 1958, he lived in F
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 Pallesen
The owner of the Seagate Hotel and Spa has offered $7 million to buy the struggling Hamlet Golf and Country Club.
“We feel it’s a win-win for both sides,” said E. Anthony Wilson, chairman of the Seagate Hospitality Group, after
Pastor Scott Baugh (left) of Journey Church and Elwood Holley of Grace Community in front of the Boynton Beach building that is changing hands. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
One church is a rapidly growing congregation of young pe
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
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
Briny Breezes Bazaar volunteer Eric Wolffbrandt (right) tries out one of the phones for sale with fellow volunteers Sue Thaler (center) and Beth Farr (left) at the Briny Breezes Auditorium on Feb. 18. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
The owners of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn — the only commercial property in South Palm Beach — have taken the 58-unit motel, restaurant and bar off the market.
The two-story motel has been in foreclosure since February 2011 and was listed o
By Tim O’Meilia
It’s been more than four years since the $510 million sale of Briny Breezes blew apart like, well, a mobile home in a hurricane.
And it’s not likely anyone will offer anything near half a billion dollars for the 43-acre oceanfront m
