By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach plans to finish moving city services in September to make way for the 16-acre Town Square project.
City Hall staff moved in the last two weeks of August to a temporary site at 3301 Quantum Blvd., Suite 100. Phone numbers a
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach residents and others using city services will have to be patient for the next two years while the city builds out its Town Square complex.
Civic buildings, including the City Hall, Public Library and Fire Station 1, will b
Final social event stirs a half-century of memories
Jean Fletcher and Claude Donawa enjoy a final dance together at the Boynton Beach Civic Center. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Walls go up, and walls come down, and in between
By Jane Smith
The temporary location of the Boynton Beach City Library will stay east of the interstate, city staff decided in late May.
“We thought it would be better to have the temporary library location east of I-95 because that’s where most of
Key part of Town Square project on track for January opening
A group of journalists and city employees toured the historic building, which opened in 1927 but has been vacant for a quarter century. It will become a recreation and events center. ABOVE
By Jane Smith
To make way for the ambitious Town Square project, Boynton Beach will operate its library, City Hall, Fire Station 1 and police headquarters out of temporary buildings mostly in Quantum Park, off Gateway Boulevard and west of Interstate
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach will finally get a real downtown.
City commissioners in mid-March unanimously approved spending $118.3 million to redevelop 16.5 acres to create a walkable Town Square where people can live, work and play.
The new down
By Jane Smith
The big reveal for Town Square will come March 13.
That’s when Boynton Beach staff will unveil the final cost to residents and the prices the city-owned parcels will fetch from developers to build apartments, a hotel and a public parkin
Workers have been removing the windows and doors from the old high school as they prepare to renovate the historic building. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach wants to zip into the 21st century by creating a bustling d
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach administrators want to combine the library with a new city hall in the ambitious Town Square development.
To do so, they are determining whether the Boynton Woman’s Club, recently purchased by the city’s Community R
By Jane Smith
A primary entrance to Boynton Beach will be more inviting after Boynton Beach Boulevard undergoes a makeover.
City commissioners, sitting as the Community Redevelopment Agency, selected a plan that includes 9-foot-wide sidewalks b
By Jane Smith
City commissioners didn’t like the initial plans presented for Town Square, a 16-acre development that is supposed to create an active downtown for Boynton Beach. They saw designs presented Aug. 21 at a special commission meeting at
The conceptual plan features a five-story glass City Hall attached to the existing city library.
Part of the library would become a City Hall addition. Across Ocean Avenue
from the proposed City Hall is the historic high school. This view is
looking
By Jane Smith
Three development teams were picked to present their conceptual plans for the 16.5-acre Town Square in Boynton Beach.
The two local teams are: Boynton Beach Town Square LLC and Boynton Vision LLC. The other team, based in Was
Commission likely to vote this month on city
review team’s recommendations for downtown
By Jane Smith
The four candidates Boynton Beach is considering to work on redeveloping Town Square read like a “who’s who” of development teams in South Flori
Developer pledges $4.5 million;
city gives itself 90 days to raise $1.5 million share
A multi-year proposal that starts with rehabilitating the old high school (bright pink) has long-term plans
including relocating the city hall and fire station. Oth
By Jane Smith
The fate of the old Boynton High School is on the front burner again. On March 17, an architectural consultant gave city commissioners three options for its Town Square: Renovate the high school, partially restore it and save its faç
