The Upshaw family from Boca Raton — (l-r) Nichole, Harper, 7, Blake, 4, and Donnie — walks through Wildflower Park on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway north of Palmetto Park Road.
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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
Two sculptures intended to be focal points at Wildflower and Silver Palm parks, as well as design work on an interactive play area, will cost the city $130,620.
Without comment, City Council members on Jan. 11 authorized City Manager Leif Ahnell to ex
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 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 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
Downtown’s combined Wildflower-Silver Palm park won’t have a planned floating wetlands area under the Palmetto Park Road bridge when it opens in 2021.
Kona Gray, a principal of consultant EDSA Inc., which is designing the park, told
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
Improvements to Wildflower, South Beach, Spanish River, Palmetto Dune and Red Reef parks will cost $9.6 million to $13.3 million, the city’s waterfront parks consultant says.
The estimates do not include possibly buying another 0.7
The former site of the Wildflower restaurant was a popular viewing location for the 41st annual Holiday Boat Parade. With the park recently open to the public, hundreds of residents jammed the area, which provided some of the most intimate views. Ti
The Wildflower parcel would be transformed into an urban oasis with flowering trees if Boca Raton adopts the master plan. EDSA Inc. via City of Boca Raton
By Steve Plunkett
If the city does nothing else with its parks, it should turn its Wildflower
By Steve Plunkett
Voters’ hunger for change brought two newcomers to the board of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and scuttled a years-long plan to put a restaurant on the city-owned Wildflower site.
Voters also approved adding a penny t
By Steve Plunkett
The race to fill two seats on the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District Commission now pits municipal firefighters against their county brethren.
Local 2928 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which represents firefi
By Steve Plunkett
South Florida boaters have lost a restaurant destination on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Houston’s in Pompano Beach no longer allows patrons to tie up their vessels at the restaurant’s 300-foot dock just north of the Atlantic Bo
By Steve Plunkett
The City Council pushed a citizen initiative on the Wildflower site on to the Nov. 8 ballot despite impassioned pleas from the petition’s organizers to keep the property green space without waiting to hear from the voters.
Houston's in Pompano Beach will no longer provide dockage for dining boaters. Photo provided.
By Steve Plunkett
South Florida boaters have lost a restaurant destination on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Houston’s in Pompano Beach will no longer allow di
By Steve Plunkett
The intersection of East Palmetto Park Road and Fifth Avenue may get one, two or three changes to improve traffic flow.
Eric Czerniejewski, a project manager for consultant Calvin, Giordano and Associates, suggests restoring a
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton City Council members are shrewd negotiators, it turns out.
Barely a month after the Hillstone Restaurant Group withdrew its proposal to build an eatery on the city-owned Wildflower site, it’s back at the negotiating
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton is reviving a 4-year-old plan to rejuvenate Lake Wyman Park, but will not install temporary park facilities at its Wildflower property.
The City Council in a Dec. 7 workshop made a commitment to pursue a multimillio
