Family and friends toast the memory of Jacob Kosowsky during a private celebration of Jacob’s Outlook — the new observation tower within Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
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The Boca Raton wants to build more residential units on its 160-acre property.
The resort has proposed building two eight-story towers with a total of 80 units, a five-story parking garage and a new golf maintenance facility, according to a city summ
Walker Design & Construction Co. workers level a portion of the more than 100 cubic yards of concrete foundation that was poured Oct. 11 for bases of a multi-level ramp that will lead to a new observation tower. The ramp will make the top deck access
By Steve Plunkett
Work to build an observation tower at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center with a multi-level ramp making the top deck accessible to people with disabilities will begin soon.
The City Council on Feb. 28 approved a $2.4 million bid for the
The Boca Raton resort is repainting its iconic 27-story Tower hotel next to the Intracoastal Waterway. ‘The pink is staying, but we are lightening up the shade of pink to be more fresh and updated than our previous shade,’ resort publicist Christine
By Steve Plunkett
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s parking lot will soon get two parking spaces, to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and an ADA-compliant ramp from the parking lot to the boardwalk.
But rebuilding the center’s observation to
By Steve Plunkett
Rising prices for materials and labor and a lack of interest by contractors have forced another delay on the seven-year effort to rebuild the once-popular observation tower at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
The city asked for bids to bu
Six 40-foot-tall wooden posts have stood since last spring at the site of the tower project. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
The estimated price of installing an inclined elevator at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center to make a long-awaite
Jacob Kosowsky, shown here just shy of his 18th birthday in 2015, was an outdoorsman who loved the ocean. He died in a car accident last year.
Couple’s $250,000 gift for Gumbo Limbo overlook reflects son’s sunny spirit
By Margie Plunkett
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By Steve Plunkett
An unnamed benefactor will pay a substantial part of the $450,000 cost to make Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s three-story observation tower ADA-compliant.
Michele Peel, president of the Friends of Gumbo Limbo, announced the gift at th
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach will soon have eight new lifeguard towers to match the recently finished $3.1 million promenade upgrade at the Municipal Beach.
City commissioners approved spending about $126,000 per tower by a 4-1 vote Dec. 11. The tot
By Rich Pollack
Although Congress restored funding to the Federal Aviation Administration late last month to pay for air traffic controllers at major airports and avoid furloughs there, the fate of the tower at Boca Raton Airport — and 148 towers at s
