City nets millions from undersea cables that zip along data
Tentacles of undersea cables reach out to global destinations from Boca Raton’s Spanish River and Silver Palm parks. This map shows how the seven existing cables stretch thousands of miles
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By Steve Plunkett
Boaters who need a ramp to reach the water will have a special Fourth of July this year — Silver Palm Park’s ramps, off-limits since September, will finally reopen.
And permits to use the ramps, usually $60 and good from Oct. 1 to Se
Construction at Silver Palm Park means boat ramps remain unavailable until sometime this summer. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Silver Palm Park’s boat ramps, which closed in September and were supposed to reopen in March, will stay o
By Mary Hladky
With construction of Silver Palm Park in the downtown finally underway and work at the adjacent Wildflower Park slated to start soon, the parks’ art components have been selected.
Two sculptures will be loaned to the city by the Boca
By Steve Plunkett
Downtown’s planned Wildflower/Silver Palm Park will have cheaper pavers and fewer trash bins, but City Council members looking to cut costs said they would find money to keep a $395,000 interactive water feature and a $556,000 rest
By Mary Hladky
The city will raise docks at Silver Palm Park so they no longer will be inundated with water during king tides.
The project will cost about $470,000, including engineering and design work. City officials will have a firm number soon.
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The boat ramp at Boca Raton's Silver Palm Park had been closed to commercial and recreational boaters alike since March 22. It is still off-limits to non-commercial fishermen. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hladky
The Silver Palm Park public
By Mary Hladky
Nearly one month after the closure of beaches, parks, natural areas and golf courses, some stir-crazy Palm Beach County residents are pushing back against COVID-19 emergency orders that keep them from enjoying the outdoors.
The unrest
By Steve Plunkett
The names are in — 294 suggestions for what to call Boca Raton’s soon-to-be integrated Wildflower property and Silver Palm Park on the Intracoastal Waterway.
And the winner is: Wildflower Park and Silver Palm Park.
“I had a feeling
By Steve Plunkett
The combined Wildflower-Silver Palm park won’t have access stairs on the north side of the Palmetto Park Road bridge after all.
A team from consultant EDSA Inc., which is designing the combined park, toured Deerfield Beach’s new Sul
By Steve Plunkett
Consultant EDSA Inc. will be given $483,700 to continue designing the combined Wildflower-Silver Palm Park at the Palmetto Park Road bridge over the Intracoastal.
The money will cover schematic design, detailed design documents, sit
By Steve Plunkett
After one public outreach session on how to design Wildflower Park and a separate outreach session and an online survey for neighboring Silver Palm Park, consultant Kona Gray was not happy.
“Individually as parks they work. But toget
By Steve Plunkett
A consultant’s plan for Silver Palm Park would add a third boat ramp and 16 more spaces to park boat trailers to the city’s only launch site.
It also would put “shade sails” along the seawall to give boat watchers by the Intracoas
Boats jam Lake Boca Raton on April 30 during the sixth annual Boca Bash.
Police patrolled access points to limit non-boating traffic.
Among thousands of boaters, authorities reported only two
who were taken to a hospital and a typical number of cuts
By Steve Plunkett
The feature most wanted at Boca Raton’s Wildflower site by an admittedly unscientific sample of residents is a wide boardwalk along the Intracoastal Waterway, followed by a water taxi and space for paddleboards and kayaks.
By Steve Plunkett
The proposed Houston’s restaurant at the old Wildflower site will have a breathtaking view of the Intracoastal Waterway, but it won’t have docks, the developer says.
And a fence will block access on the waterfront walkway to t
By Sallie James
Recently submitted plans for a waterside restaurant on the old Wildflower property don’t include any dock space, raising concerns that boaters who patronize the proposed eatery will take up dock space at nearby Silver Palm Park
Steve Alley stands on the northeast corner of Palmetto Park Road and Northeast Fifth Avenue across from the busy Trattoria Romana restaurant pointing out traffic issues.
Sallie James/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
Boca Raton will spend $50,000
Boaters use the ramp at Silver Palm Park, at Palmetto Park Road and the Intracoastal Waterway.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
An angler cleans fish as boaters leave the water via the ramp at Silver Palm Park in Boca Raton.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Sta
By Steve Plunkett
A Houston’s restaurant appears headed for a December 2015 grand opening on the former Wildflower site on the Intracoastal.
But many details in the lease proposal by Hillstone Restaurant Group Inc., which the City Council re
