Conceptual drawing of proposed Mizner 200 project. Image provided by Garcia Strombeg GS4studios
By Mary Hladky
Elad National Properties has submitted preliminary plans to the city for yet another reimagining of what it wants to build on the sit
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Matt Molloy is one of my favorite photographer a 29 year old Canadian with a diploma in visual depiction who adores most forms of art. He makes his own particular music, plays guitar and drums, yet he will attempt to play any instrument he can get hi
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach will join cities from Maine to Key West to create an “Urban Appalachian Trail.”
At their Dec. 8 meeting, city commissioners unanimously approved the designation of the route along Federal Highway to George Bush Boulev
By Jane Smith
The city strengthened the future of its tree canopy in December by toughening an ordinance protecting shade trees.
The first change was renaming the ordinance, last revised in 2008 and formerly called the Tree Ordinance. It is
By Sallie James
The Boca Raton City Council postponed discussion of an ordinance that would give city lawmakers a raise, planning to address in January the possibility of setting the wage level at a percentage of Palm Beach County Commission salar
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 Rich Pollack
Saying he’s achieved what he was selected to do when he was appointed to serve on the Boca Raton Airport Authority, Boca Raton Deputy Mayor Robert Weinroth resigned last month from the independent board that oversees airport operat
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
By Steven J. Smith
Restaurateur Arturo Gismondi confirmed he intends to convert the historic Luff House into a restaurant by this time next year.
The two-story, 2,492-square-foot Luff House — named for pioneer residents Theodore and Harriet
By Christine Davis
A Highland Beach pre-real-estate-crash spec house at 3621 S. Ocean Blvd. with 200 feet on the ocean, was recently torn down as part of an $11 million deal to develop six upscale townhouses on the site.
Boca Raton agents Frank Jich
By Sallie James
A city decision to allow construction of a four-story beachside mega-mansion on an undersized oceanfront parcel is having a ripple effect.
In the wake of the controversial Dec. 8 City Council decision, the Greater Boca Raton
For a child living on beachfront,
intrigue of wartime was exciting
Seen from the Atlantic Ocean is the Sanborn house (left), where Dr. Peter Barrett
recalls a suspected spying incident took place in 1942. The Boca Raton Villas ar
at the center and th
By Rich Pollack
After months of negotiation, the town of Highland Beach is close to signing a fire and rescue service agreement with Delray Beach that would make it possible to have a new fire truck and a new rescue truck in its station.
Last
New Highland Beach Library Director Lois Albertson (left) with Suzi Hayes,
who is stepping down as the director of the library but will stay part time, working 20 hours a week.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Lois Albertson and the H
'There is no one here who can guarantee how this is going to unfold,’ state Rep. Bill Hager said
about a new bill targeting dubious practices associated with the drug-rehab industry. He spoke during
a news conference at Delray Beach City Hall. ABOVE:
Ocean Ridge Town Clerk Karen Hancsak sits at her post on the Town Hall dais. She retires Jan. 29.
Photo by Tim Stepien
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge is bracing itself for a case of institutional amnesia the likes of which few communities have ever s
As I sit at my desk the day after Christmas — with several extra pounds on my waist and a purring office cat on my lap — I think about how much there is to be thankful for as we slip into the New Year.
Because I’m in the business of publishi
A domestic abuse survivor, Jeannette DeOrchis will co-chair AVDA’s Heart of a Woman Luncheon on Jan. 20.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Jeannette DeOrchis has a great career as a certified financial planner and senior vice presiden
By Dan Moffett
During Jamie Titcomb’s interviews for the Ocean Ridge town manager’s job last summer, he told commissioners that one of his strongest attributes was an ability to assemble talented teams of employees. Titcomb didn’t have to look
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach officials took the high road when responding to the second amended complaint filed by the Atlantic Crossing developers in federal court for the Southern District of Florida.
The response, filed Dec. 14, kept to th
