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
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Construction is nearing completion to transform the Little House into Fork Play. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Restaurant owner Brian Nickerson is the kind of restaurateur the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency wants to attract.
Ariana Ciancio, the Delray Beach Police Department’s service population advocate, talks with homeless people at Libby Wesley Park. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Soon after she arrived in Delray Beach as the Police Department’s new
By Jane Smith, Dan Moffett and Rich Pollack
Coastal towns in south Palm Beach County are flush with cash thanks to their shares of the voter-approved penny sales tax increase that started in January.
The money began flowing into municipa
Atlantic High coach T.J. Jackson grew up in Delray Beach amid hardship some of his players face. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Janis Fontaine
From Delray to Dallas and back, Tavarius “T.J.” Jackson is a success story.
Jackson earned his
Linda and Greg Harrison of South Palm Beach hold a few of the permanent residents of The Bird & Exotic Hospital in Greenacres. Pictured are Peeps, a yellow budgie; Jake, a Mexican redhead parrot, and Baby, a Congo African grey parrot. Tim Stepien/The
By Jane Smith
Animals are banned from the beach in Ocean Ridge, according to Town Manager Jamie Titcomb.
Even so, the town would consider a formal proposal from Boynton Beach to allow dogs on that city’s adjoining 960-foot-long beach.
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By Steve Plunkett
GULF STREAM — By many retirement standards, Gary Ward was young.
But at age 41, after 21 years as a New York City policeman and 2½ years in the Army, he did retire. In 1988 he packed up his belongings and moved to Boynton Bea
At issue is whether building should continue east of Coastal Construction Line
By Jane Smith and Michelle Quigley
If a major hurricane were to hit the barrier island in southern Palm Beach County, $6.4 billion in mansions and condos sitting ea
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — David David was a pioneer, a lifelong resident of Briny Breezes who knew the town as a child when it had only one telephone, a teenager who surfed its waves, and a man who remembered the changes he’d seen with both nos
Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein (l-r) joins Kevin Knopf of Lifespace Communities and Dr. Leonard Sutton, president of the Harbour’s Edge resident council, to celebrate the completion of the senior living community’s $20 million renovation to add a
By Rich Pollack
Should the oceanfront town of Highland Beach become part of the larger Boca Raton?
At least one of the larger city’s council members thinks it might be a good idea. Highland Beach officials and other residents whom The Coastal S
The Related Group would demolish Mizner Park Amphitheater and replace it with 400 residential units. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
A major developer has approached city officials about creating a public/private partnership to develop city-owned
By Mary Hladky
Three days after the Boca Raton City Council pressed both sides to reach a compromise in the contentious battle over the proposed Mizner 200 luxury condo, the combatants met at architect Derek Vander Ploeg’s office in late July to s
By Mary Hladky
The first assisted living facility to be built in eastern Boca Raton has won the City Council’s unanimous approval.
But before construction can begin, the developer, Boca Raton-based Penn-Florida Cos., must make design changes r
By Sallie James
Will residents see another pentagram display, or something equally jarring, in Sanborn Square this year during the winter holiday season?
Boca Raton City Council members on Aug. 22 scrapped a plan to ban “unattended, expressive
By Rich Pollack
It has taken more than a year, but Highland Beach finally ended its search for a full-time code compliance officer.
Not everyone on the Town Commission, however, agrees with how the decision to end the search was made.
In a
A worker cuts grooves into the surface of one of the Spanish River interchange’s many spans. All 13 of the project’s bridges have been constructed. Photo courtesy of Florida Department of Transportation
By Steve Plunkett
The Spanish River interch
By Sallie James
An upscale 70-unit condo complex proposed for the southwest corner of South Ocean Boulevard and East Palmetto Park Road will be even more luxurious than originally planned.
Developers tweaked a proposal originally approved in
By Mary Hladky
Miami developers Key International and Integra Investments have purchased a 3-acre waterfront site on Lake Boca Raton for $17.3 million.
The seller is an affiliate of the Blackstone Group, a New York-based private equity firm
