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Finally, West Atlantic in Delray Beach to get restaurants, grocery store and housing

In this rendering, the complex takes up three blocks on West Atlantic Avenue east of I-95.

West Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, the neglected sibling of trendy East Atlantic Avenue, is finally getting the restaurants, grocery store and housing that neighbors have been seeking for years.

On Tuesday, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency is set to approve plans for a three-block complex that will have a 33,000-square-foot grocery, 165 apartments, office space, two public parking garages and an open space for public gatherings.

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“We all want something great to happen on West Atlantic Avenue,” City Commissioner Bill Bathurst said. “There are so many points that made this bid a winner.”

When drivers exit east from Interstate 95 and head toward the beach, they drive through West Atlantic, a mostly deserted series of empty lots peppered with the occasional bar or retail store.

Then they hit some government buildings, including the police station, courthouse and library, before having to slow down for the heavily trafficked East Atlantic Avenue, dense with pedestrians, eateries, art galleries, retail stores and apartment complexes.

There have been many proposals over the years on how best to develop the blighted West Atlantic area in the heart of the city’s African American neighborhoods. Most recently, the city was close to selling the land to Uptown Delray, but decided in July to seek new bids after its developer sought a contract extension.

Some residents expressed concern that the new developer, BH3 Management, is getting the property for free.

The agreement to be approved Tuesday calls for a $10 purchase price, although a city appraisal said the land is worth $17 million.

Neil Schiller, attorney for BH3, said the company offered several amenities to sweeten their proposal, including 206 extra parking spaces for the public and 18 workforce housing units that will be available this year.

Schiller said the developer sees the site, in the 600 to 800 blocks of West Atlantic, as a destination for dining and community gathering and also a place for visitors to park and take a shuttle or other transportation to East Atlantic. Parking near the restaurants, art galleries and clubs on East Atlantic has proven a challenge that has spurred complaints from visitors to the city.

“We are delivering aspects that have financial value to the CRA and the public,” Schiller said. “The benefit you’re going to get will outweigh the cash flash you get from selling the property.”

BH3’s pitch included “Atla West,” a retail-office complex that will front West Atlantic. Plans also call for a public open space, the width of a city block, called “Frog Alley,” paying homage to a historic African American neighborhood nearby. Frog Alley was founded in the early 1900s by Caribbean Americans and named for the amphibians that invaded the neighborhood after heavy rains.

There will be 165 apartments, including 12 to be dedicated to police officers, teachers and other middle-class workers, as well as the 18 BH3 already owns that will be available this summer at 11 and 21 SW Sixth Ave. Total parking will consist of about 700 spots in two garages and one lot.

The complex is expected to open to the public in 2022.

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Momentum builds for major projects to anchor West Palm’s trendy Northwood Village

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WEST PALM BEACH — Attention to the city’s artsy Northwood district is intensifying, as architecture and urban design firms of national and international repute focus on projects to anchor the vacant east and west ends of the commercial stretch, while West Palm Beach rethinks its unintended haven for homeless along the Intracoastal waterfront, Currie Park.

On Friday at 6 p.m., the architecture firm that designed the Beijing National Stadium known as the Bird’s Nest is scheduled to present its vision for developer Jeff Greene’s assemblage of land between Northwood Road and Currie Park. Greene reserved the Center for Creative Education, at 425 24th St., to present area residents and business owners long-awaited plans for his initial building at North Flagler Drive and 23rd Street, and to lay out a concept for the corridor.

Greene’s team is led by Swiss architects Hertzog and de Meuron, who designed the Pérez Art Museum Miami and Miami Beach’s iconic garage, 1111 Lincoln Road, as well as the Olympic stadium.

The architect of record on the project, working with the Swiss designers, is GliddenSpina+Partners, a West Palm Beach firm. “When we heard those guys were involved, we were so excited to be part of the team,” Keith Spina said Tuesday. “It’s something that’s going to be a game changer for the whole neighborhood and the whole city.”

Greene, a billionaire investor, developer and political novice who in recent years mounted campaigns for governor and senator, likes to think big with project design, as well. Construction started a few months ago on his One West Palm, a $250 million, two-tower office, hotel and apartment complex designed by Arquitectonica’s Bernardo Fort-Brescia. In 2016 Greene, who owns several acres around the park, hired Massachusetts Institute of Technology urban planners Carlo Ratti Associati in an initial attempt to conceptualize a plan to link Northwood Road, his land and the park.

Meanwhile West Palm’s Community Redevelopment Agency is progressing through negotiations with Immocorp Ventures, which in November won a competition to develop the city-owned, 3.5-acre Anchor Site, near Northwood Road just west of Broadway. CRA Executive Director Jon Ward said this week he expects to present the CRA board with terms of the deal late this month and that the mixed-use project could be out of the ground next spring.

Immocorp, using well-known Miami architect Kobi Karp, plans a cluster of low- and mid-rise buildings. Immocorp’s Frank Gottsman said his firm hopes to draw visitors to the area and its businesses, with a project that has an artistic feel, reasonably priced apartments, a grocery store and offices. It would serve as a town square, possibly with a train stop for expanded Tri-Rail service. An art gallery, a Carrefour urban grocery and restaurants are committed to move in, he told city commissioners last November.

In February city commissioners chose the firm that designed New York’s High Line and redesigned Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road promenade, immensely popular public spaces — James Corner Field Operations — to work its magic on Currie Park.

Area residents long have complained that Currie Park serves as a haven for the homeless and drug-users, day and night, dissuading much of the public from benefiting from its grassy expanse and enjoying its views of the Lake Worth Lagoon. But Corner’s half-hour presentation to the Community Redevelopment Agency described Currie as an opportunity for transformation, to connect surrounding neighborhoods and the region to the waterfront while encouraging outdoor dining, recreation and enough activities and events to drive out those who camp out there.

Will Davis, president of the Northwood Village Merchants Association, said he found encouraging the attention being lavished on major projects for the trendy area.

“As long as we have multiple things happening in the area, God forbid, knock on wood, if one falls off page, at least we have something else to fall back on,” said Davis, who owns Day By Day, a vintage item shop at 513 Northwood Road. “We’re closer than ever to having some type of progress in the North End.”

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West Palm Beach hotel with pioneer, adventure theme to open

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Another hotel in West Palm Beach is moving swiftly toward completion as the county continues to prepare for future growth in both leisure and business visitors.

The Ben is slated to open later this year on the site of Flagler Banyan Square, the old city hall site now being developed into a hotel, apartments and shops. On March 19, The Ben will be “topped off,” a construction milestone meaning the building’s last beam is placed at the top of the structure.

The Ben name refers to a home in West Palm Beach owned by a pioneering resident, Author Byrd Spilman Dewey, who owned land that later became Boynton Beach. She and her husband also owned a home in downtown West Palm Beach along the water dubbed Ben Trovato, said Frank Navarro, master developer of the hotel complex and a partner in the hotel with Concord Hospitality.

Evoking the pioneering West Palm Beach Dewey sets the stage for the themes of this 208-room hotel slated for 251 N. Narcissus Ave. It’s Old Florida and history, plus adventure — but with a modern twist. Expect a blending of design styles when the hotel is completed, including exposed concrete floor and late 19th-century period furniture.

Navarro said “ben trovato” means, roughly, “a very interesting story, in Italian. Plausible. It could even be true.”

So the hotel’s adventurous decor will be a place where maybe the truth could be stretched a bit when travelers come back from, say, a fishing excursion. The effort might be assisted by a visit to a planned rooftop bar atop the hotel.

Although The Ben’s decor suggest whimsy, the finishes and service will be buttoned down. After all, The Ben is a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel, which means the property will conform to Marriott’s hospitality standards.

The hotel’s completion by year-end is expected to be accompanied by the completion of apartments and retail space by that time as well, Navarro said.

With the project planned for cultural events and entertainment, Navarro predicts the site will enliven this portion of town and create a reason for people to linger along the city’s waterfront. “I do think it has the potential to be a destination, meaning if you come downtown, maybe you come to Flagler Banyan Square,” Navarro said. “We’re an authentic experience, right on the waterfront.”

The Ben’s advancement comes amid news of record-breaking visitors to Palm Beach County in 2018.

Discover The Palm Beaches, the tourism marketing organization for Palm Beach County, said year-end hotel performance data shows 8 million visitors came to the county last year, a 1.7 percent increase from 2017. The increase marked ten years in a row of visitor growth to Palm Beach County and serves as a good indicator of things to come.

Numerous hotels are in the works throughout the county to accommodate the growing demand.

In West Palm Beach alone, the Canopy by Hilton Hotel on Dixie Highway is set to open in the fall. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to build a Radisson Blu at 415 S. Dixie Highway, between Fern and Gardenia streets. An Indigo Hotel north of CityPlace, at Railroad Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, also is planned.

In addition, One West Palm, a two-tower complex at 550 Quadrille Blvd. featuring offices, hotels and apartments, also has started construction.

Jeff Greene, One West Palm’s developer, said he just inked a deal to have New York’s Rockwell Group, “the best designers in the world,” handle the towers’ interior design. Rockwell will design the hotel, office space common areas, apartments and an indoor tennis courts that will convert to meeting space for more than 1,200 people.

Look for a contemporary design with plenty of photo-worthy features. “I want people to walk into the lobby and say, ‘Wow,’” Greene said.

He expects the foundation will be poured in another month, at which point the 30-story project will start to go vertical.

Topping off is expected in about a year, with another year needed to do all the interior build-out of the towers, Greene said.

There’s also talk about building another hotel next to the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

Discover The Palm Beaches noted increases in visits both by leisure and business travelers. Interestingly, visits from international travelers increased by half a percent to 749,000, with growth from the United Kingdom, Brazil and Colombia.

But Discover sees room for more growth from the international markets, and in February it said it planned to launch new marketing efforts in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Germany and Mexico.

Helping goose tourism was the West Palm Beach convention center, which has seen strong growth since a Hilton hotel opened there in 2016. Discover President Jorge Pesquera recently said that business and corporate meetings are an increasingly important element of the county’s economy, providing a hedge against dips in leisure travel.

Worth the wait

The law firm of Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun, has been looking for new office space in Palm Beach Gardens for some time but wasn’t able to find it, until now.

Founding partner Michael Singer said the firm will take more than a floor of space at DiVosta Towers, the twin-tower project being built at 3825 PGA Boulevard, at the intersection of Alternate A1A and Kyoto Gardens Drive.

Comiter, Singer is the first business to announce it is moving to the property. Singer said the firm will take the entire 7th floor in the south tower, as well as a quarter floor in the ground space.

The towers are the first new office project in Palm Beach Gardens in a decade, and Singer said the firm is looking forward to the added space.

The firm, which has about 31 employees, will move Nov. 1 from smaller space nearby, at 3801 PGA Blvd., the Financial Center at the Gardens.

Comiter, Singer handles estate planning, corporate and business transactions and estate, trust and guardianship litigation.

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A Recap of Actions Taken by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners in February

By Robert S Weinroth

To keep residents up to date on the matters being addressed by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, I will periodically be using this space to provide the overview my office disseminates via my email newsletter.

Feel free to contact my office for additional information on these or other county issues. Your emails to: [email protected] or phone calls to: 561.355.2204 will receive the attention of my office.

At the February 5, 2019, Board of County Commissioners meeting, we took the following action:

Home caregivers – continued to the March 12 BCC meeting a public hearing for adoption of a series of amendments to the Home Caregiver Ordinance.

Voting equipment – approved a sales order agreement with the Supervisor of Elections Office and Election Systems & Software, LLC (ESS) in the amount of $8.676 million for the purchase of the following voter tabulation equipment: 900 complete DS200 scanners, 75 DS200 scanner components, 10 high-speed digital scanners, and 525 ExpressVote terminals with ADA-compliant accessory equipment. A budget transfer of $4.551 million was approved to acquire additional equipment including a new VR Systems voter registration/check-in system and more computers to handle provisional ballot processing, phone banking and vote by mail.

Dubois Park – agreed to suspend imposition of parking fees slated to take effect March 1 at Dubois Park in Jupiter and to remove the fees from the current budget. Staff was directed to draft an agenda item for further discussion.

Palm Tran Connection – mutually agreed to terminate the contract with Maruti Fleet & Management, LLC for Palm Tran Connection paratransit services, and reallocated Maruti’s payments and shift runs to MV Transportation, Inc. and First Group America, Inc. (First Transit).

Roads – adopted a resolution abandoning public interest in a 30-foot-wide by 154-foot-long portion of the unimproved right of way of Marguerita Street, east of Haverhill Road and north of Ceceile Avenue. This will eliminate the public dedication that is in conflict with future redevelopment plans by AHC of West Palm Beach, LLC.

SHIP – approved the second amendment to Palm Beach County’s State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program Local Housing Assistance Plan (LHAP) for fiscal years 2016-17 to 2018-19 and transmittal of the 2018 Triennial Report to non-SHIP entitlement municipalities in Palm Beach County.

Ocean Breeze East – approved an Impact Fee Affordable Housing Assistance Program (IFAHAP) funding award of $106,399 to Ocean Breeze East Apartments, LLC. The project at 700 North Seacrest Boulevard in Boynton Beach will offer 123 multifamily apartment units for affordable rental to very low, low, and moderate income persons or households. These funds are from interest earned by the Impact Fee Fund.

Fire inspections – approved on first reading and to advertise for public hearing on March 12 an ordinance amending the Palm Beach County Fire Code to include annual inspections of certain apartments. This will enhance public safety, improve PBC Fire Rescue’s ISO PPC rating, and lower insurance rates in the future for homeowners within Palm Beach County Fire Rescue’s jurisdiction.

Labor – approved and ratified collective bargaining agreements with Professional Firefighters/Paramedics of Palm Beach County, Local 2928, IAFF, Inc. for the period October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2021 for firefighters and paramedics and for district chiefs in the supervisory unit. The board also approved a labor-management bargaining agreement with the Communication Workers of America (CWA), Local 3181 for the same period.

Juvenile laws – adopted a resolution stating Palm Beach County’s preference for juveniles to be treated as juveniles when they break certain Florida laws and urging state lawmakers to adopt legislation that would create additional statewide standards for prosecution of juveniles under the age of 18 who commit certain offenses, and require that children prosecuted as adults be held separate and apart from adult inmates.

Water Utilities – congratulated the Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department on winning the Florida Section of the American Water Works Association’s 2018 Division 8 Water Distribution System Award as the best

large water distribution system in the state. The award recognizes outstanding water quality, operational efficiency, system maintenance, professionalism, safety standards, emergency preparedness and cross-connection programs.

Next week, a number of the County Commissioners will be traveling to Washington DC and Tallahassee to, among other things, lobby our federal and state legislative delegation on issues impacting our county. The 60-day Florida legislative session begins next week.

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Where Should You Live in Florida?

Disney World and many other tourist attractions, it can get congested but that may also be to your benefit as Florida is more than a vacation location that is enjoyed by families around the world; it is also an excellent place to live as well. Many people choose to retire to Florida when they reach their senior years but when you are younger, it has much to offer. The following are some of the top locations to reside in Florida and what they have the offer.

North Florida – The area of North Florida and the Panhandle has much to offer for those who want to move to a warmer climate but don’t necessarily want the blistering hot summers. The Panhandle area of Florida is beautiful and there are plenty of smaller communities to put down roots.

Orlando – If you want in the center of a fast-growing area with plenty to offer, it would be difficult to top the Orlando area. This is an excellent choice for younger individuals as well as older peo

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Cortland Partners pays $55M for Boynton Beach apartment complex

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An Atlanta multifamily real estate investment firm spent $54.5 million for an apartment complex in Boynton Beach, property records show.

IMT Capital III Florida Club, an affiliate of Los Angeles-based IMT Capital, sold the 264-unit property at 7933 Venture Center Way to Cortland Partners. IMT paid $40 million for the Florida Club apartments as part of a larger portfolio purchase in 2014.

Cortland Partners, an international company with offices in Shanghai and London, paid about $206,000 per apartment for the Boynton Beach property. The firm financed the deal with a $41.15 million mortgage from New York Life Insurance Company.

The Florida Club apartments complex was built in 2000 on a nearly 18-acre site near West Boynton Beach Boulevard and the Florida Turnpike.

Cortland Partners owns multifamily properties in Orlando, Tampa, Ocala and West Palm Beach, according to its website.

Palm Beach County, like other parts of South Florida, is facing a shrinking supply of land for multifamily development, a panel of real estate experts said recently. About 8,000 rental apartments are in some stage of development, including 2,000 under construction in downtown West Palm Beach.

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Palm Beach seaside condo brings $5.2 million; cabana adds $450,000

The living room of Unit 311 at the Sun & Surf at 100 Sunrise Ave. in Palm Beach offers wide oceanviews thanks to its position on the southeast corner of the building. The two-bedroom apartment just sold for a recorded $5.19 million, or $2,563 per square foot. Photo by Andy Frame, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.

A renovated two-bedroom oceanfront condominium and a cabana at the Sun and Surf in Palm Beach have sold separately for a combined $5.64 million, according to the prices recorded today with the deeds.

Insurance executive Joseph Gendelman and his business executive wife, Tara, sold — for $5.191 million — their southeast corner condo, Unit 311 at 100 Sunrise Ave., the deed shows.

The price paid works out to $2,563 per square foot, based on the “living area” of the 2,025-square-foot condo, as listed in Palm Beach County property records. The sale appears to have set a square-foot sales record for the building.

The buyer was Beach Turf LLC, a Florida limited liability company managed by West Palm Beach attorney Martin V. Katz. No other information about the buyer’s identity was immediately available.

The buyer also paid a recorded $450,000 for a double cabana, comprising Nos. 47 and 48, on the pool deck of the building. The cabana had been listed for sale at just under $400,000, according to the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.

The Gendelmans paid a recorded $2.1 million for the condo in June 2014, courthouse records show. They then carried out a down-to-the-studs renovation, said listing agent Fern Fodiman of Sotheby’s International Realty.

Agent Simon Isaacs of Property Matters acted on behalf of the buyer in both deals, according to the updated MLS listing. Isaacs declined to comment.

Fodiman listed the third-floor condo for sale in March at just under $6 million.

“It’s a unique property and rarely comes to market,” she said. “It’s in the building closest to the ocean, so when you’re sitting on the southeast corner, it’s really like you’re sitting on a boat.”

Her listing described the apartment as “exceptionally designed” with an open floor plan and fine finishes throughout. The listing also mentioned the full-service building’s 24-hour security, its concierge and valet service and its fitness center and card room. The condo was sold with two garage parking spaces.

Agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group had the cabana listed separately for its sellers, Justin B. and Meira S. Besikof, who own Unit 223 in the same building. Corcoran had the cabana listed for sale at just under $400,000, according to MLS.

Paulette Koch and Dana Koch also are marketing the Besikofs’ condo for sale at $3.995 million, MLS shows.

Both condos and the cabana are in the easternmost of the two buildings that comprise the Sun and Surf complex. The other building, at 130 Sunrise Ave., stands west of the direct-oceanfront building.

Joseph Gendelman is president and CEO of Bruce Gendelman Insurance Services, the insurance agency founded and named for his father. Bruce Gendelman is chairman of the company, which has offices in Palm Beach and Milwaukee.

Tara Gendelman is a member of Golden Seeds, a national “angel-investing” organization that supports start-up companies run by female entrepreneurs. She has a background in business development and investor relations, according to an online biographical sketch.

The highest-dollar transaction in the Sun and Surf recorded at about $7.799 milllion in 2014 when a trust in the name of the late Carol Stone sold Penthouse 2, her oversized three-bedroom apartment on the southeast corner of the east building’s seventh floor. Agent Susan Polan — then of Illustrated Properties and today with Douglas Elliman Real Estate — represented the buyer, Magis LLC. Paulette and Dana Koch had the listing for the penthouse, with 5,095 square feet of living space. The price paid per square foot was about $1,530 in that deal.

The Sun and Surf was developed as an apartment complex in 1970 on the site of the old Sun and Surf Beach Club between Sunrise and Sunset avenues. It was designed by the late architect Gene Lawrence with 242 units and was converted into condos in 1977.

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West Palm Brewery & Wine Vault Launches Singer Songwriter Music Series Featuring Monty Warren and David Gruitza (May 20) (West Palm Beach, FL)

"I put together this music series because Palm Beach County loves craft beer, premium wine, art, and live performances with great music," said West Palm Brewery & Wine Vault owner John Pankauski. "I invited these musicians because I love their incredible live shows."

Warren and Gruitza will alternately play their original songs sans backup from their bands. "We ain’t an ‘act.’ No rehearsals," said Warren. "We’re going to be as surprised as the audience to hear what unfolds in each moment on the stage."

Audiences will hear tunes off Warren’s three albums that have all been named to The Palm Beach Press annual "Best Music" Lists (Trailer Park Angel; Let’s Go To Therapy; Far Out Close Up), and a few off his upcoming album (Two Badasses) with European rocker, Phil Wolff.

"Monty Warren is an amazing singer songwriter with an accomplished body of original work," said Pankauski. "When you hear David Gruitza’s music, you hear Truth."

Gruitza will be playing songs off the Fern Street EP (Fern Street). "I’m really looking forward to this," he said. "And grateful to everyone for making this happen!’

Doors open at 12 Noon. "The event is free, but parking can be tricky, so get there early for best seating," advised Pankauski. "Folks can sit in The Long Bar, The Vault, or outside in the shade. Windows and sliding glass doors will be open to share the music."

West Palm Brewery & Wine Vault has posted on its Facebook page "Five Things You Need To Know About Songwriter Musicians Monty Warren and David Gruitza" (link below).

"Let’s welcome the weekend, turn up the volume and rock the joint!" said Pankauski.

Venue Address and Contact Info:

West Palm Beach Brewery & Wine Vault 332 Evernia Street West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 Email: [email protected] Phone: 561.619.8813

For more Venue Event, Parking and Musician Info: Website: https://www.westpalmbeer.com/news-events/

Musicians Info:

"Five Things You Need To Know" Facebook: https://www.westpalmbeer.com/west-palm-brewery-live-music/

Monty Warren Info: Website: www.montywarren.com YouTube: Monty Warren Channel Facebook: www.facebook.com/Monty-Warren-The-Friggin-Whatevers-Music E-Mail: [email protected]

David Gruitza Info: Website: www.fernstreetmusic.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/fernstreetmusic/

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NEW: Brightline has big discounts for first West Palm-to-Miami weekend

MIAMI —

Brightline will start shuttling passengers to its station in downtown Miami on Saturday, May 19, with round-trip fares starting at $6 for its grand opening weekend — a price that is competitive with the cost of a Tri-Rail ticket.

To mark the final phase of its South Florida launch, Brightline plans to slash its one-way ticket prices on May 19 and 20 to $3 for its a seat in one of the company’s regular coach cars. One-way tickets for a Select seat, Brightline’s version of first class, will cost just $5. Tickets can be purchased online at gobrightline.com.

Patrick Goddard, Brightline’s president and chief operating officer, said the company also plans to hold a series of events at the Miami station to mark its grand opening, including appearances from Miami Heat players.

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“It is going to be an amazing party,” Goddard said Friday during a media event at the Miami station.

Beginning Monday, May 21, introductory one-way fares from West Palm Beach to Miami will be $15 for a regular ticket and $25 for a Select seat. Select car features more spacious seats, as well as free snacks and beverages.

One-way tickets between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale and Fort Landerdale and Miami will be $10 for regular seats and $15 for Select.

“This is introductory,” Goddard said of the ticket prices. “It will hold for awhile, but don’t sleep on them, because they aren’t going to last forever.”

In the coming weeks, Brightline plans to release prices for its monthly and annual passes, Goddard said.

Parking at the company’s stations is free. One-way trips between West Palm Beach and Miami are expected to take about an hour.

The company plans to run eight round-trip trains a day between its three South Florida stations. Eventually, that number is expected to increase to 11 daily trains, Goddard said.

The MiamiCentral station is located at 600 NW 1st Avenue in the heart of downtown Miami. It is within walking distance of the American Airlines Arena and a short shuttle ride from PortMiami and the Wynwood Arts District.

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The Miami station will also connect to two other Miami-Dade rail projects — Metromover, a 4.4-mile electrically powered transit system, and Metrorail, a 25-mile rail line with nearly two dozen stations.

By early next year, Palm Beach County residents will also be to ride a Tri-Rail train into Brightline’s Miami station. Tri-Rail will have its own train platform at the massive Miami complex, an addition that will provide a cheaper alternative for riders who don’t mind making multiple stops along the route.

Tri-Rail now runs between Palm Beach County and Miami International Airport. Of the 50 daily Tri-Rail trains, 26 are expected to travel to Brightline’s station.

Brightline’s ticket prices are more expensive, but the company offers customer service that some say some say rivals Disney. It’s trains are designed to be fast, stopping only at Brightline’s stations in West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

Tri-Rail offers lower ticket prices but makes multiple stops before it reaches the Miami station. Roundtrip tickets start at $4.40. Weekend daily passes cost $5. Discounts are available for seniors, children, students and those with disabilites.

Palm Beach County Commissioner Steven Abrams, who serves as chairman of the governing board of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, which operates Tri-Rail, said the Tri-Rail platform at Brightline’s station will make it easier for people living in southern Palm Beach County to get to downtown Miami.

“It provides full connectivity to all rail passengers,” Abrams said.

The Miami station is expected to become a transportation hub and shopping and entertainment destination for tourists and locals. It spans six city blocks and will eventually feature two residential towers with 800 apartments and a third tower with 190,000 square feet of office space.

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A 50,000-square-foot marketplace, dubbed Central Fare, is planned also at the complex. The marketplace will house 20 more than eateries.

Palm Beach County leaders say Brightline’s Miami opening will be a boon for the local tourism industry. In 2017, more than 800,000 tourists from the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area traveled to Palm Beach County, according to Discover The Palm Beaches, the non-profit that markets the county as a tourist destination.

“Now that the Miami station is open, we’re confident that this train will become a game-changer for us to draw more visitors from drive markets to our South, as well as those flying in to MIA or FLL looking to visit multiple locations in Florida,” said Jorge Pesquera, Discover’s president and CEO. “This will be a wonderful way to access special exhibitions, events and entertainment activities in The Palm Beaches.”

Brightline ultimately plans to offer trips between South Florida and Orlando. Construction on the Orlando leg has not started, but Goddard said the leg is expected to open in about three years.

Brightline officials have said its service stands out from other rail ventures because it will be privately owned, operated and maintained. The company’s trains runs on Henry Flagler’s historic rail corridor, passing through the heart of many of South Florida’s coastal cities.

Brightline’s launch this year marked the first time passenger trains have run on the Florida East Coast Railway tracks since 1968, when passenger service was discontinued following a union strike.

The company is spending $3 billion to build the rail project and stations and is investing several hundred million dollars in real estate projects in Miami and West Palm Beach.

“This is a model that is commercially viable, privately finance-able and could change the fabric of transportation in the country,” said Wes Edens, the co-founder, principal and co-chief executive officer of Fortess Investment Group.

Meanwhile, the city of West Palm announced Friday morning that the quiet zone to silence train horns along Brightline’s route will begin Monday at 11:59 p.m. Trains running on tracks between 15th Street and the southern city limits will not be required to blow horns. However, horns may sound within passenger stations or rail yards in the event of an emergency situation.

West Palm is the first of six cities in Palm Beach County to establish the quiet zone.

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Why was real estate season so busy in Palm Beach?

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi paid a recorded $10 millon for a Palm Beach house with ocean views built in 1985 at 230 N. Ocean Blvd. The lot measures about a third of an acre. (Meghan McCarthy/Daily News)

If the Palm Beach real estate market were a magnum of Dom Perignon, you would surely have heard a loud “pop” this season.

That’s because the bottleneck holding back single-family sales over the past couple of years finally broke with a rush of closings, especially after the first of the year, real estate brokers and analysts agree.

“There’s no doubt we’re in a very strong uptick,” said Brown Harris Stevens broker Ava Van de Water. “And I think it’s going to be a strong summer, at least through May and June, based on what’s under contract.”

Palm Beach Board of Realtors President Suzanne Frisbie echoes Van de Water. Just in the first three months of the year, there were 47 single-family real estate transactions in town — a 62-percent hike over closings in the first quarter of last year, said Frisbie, an agent at the Corcoran Group. Her figures included closed sales of single-family properties in the island’s multiple listing service as well as those that changed hands privately but were recorded at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

The dollar volume of those transactions during the first quarter totaled $328 million, a 28-percent jump over the first three months of 2017, Frisbie added. In fact, single-family sales this year generated the highest first-quarter dollar volume ever recorded in Palm Beach, according to the research prepared by her family’s company, The Frisbie Group.

Frisbie’s findings generally echoed the favorable sales picture for single-family houses and land painted by other first-quarter sales reports released by real estate agencies that do business on the island. Those reports also showed, however, that sales in the island’s condominium market have not been nearly as robust as those in for single-family properties.

The single-family sales numbers were particularly impressive in the upper price brackets. Last season, from October to May, seven real estate sales recorded at more than $17 million. This season, there were a dozen. And as of last week in the local MLS, five properties were under contract with asking prices of $15 million or more, including a $59.9 million listing for a lakefront estate at 1485 S. Ocean Blvd., marketed by broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate.

In the lower end of the market, the first quarter also saw robust sales of MLS-listed single-family properties, said Van de Water. The number of houses that sold for between $5 million and $10 million, for instance, totaled 14 in the first three months of this year versus eight in the first quarter of 2017, Van de Water said. Among those buyers was rocker Jon Bon Jovi, who in April paid a recorded $10 million for an oceanfront house at 230 N. Ocean Blvd. Angle handled the buyer’s end of that deal opposite the listing agent, Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates.

RELATED: Jon Bon Jovi pays recorded $10 million for Palm Beach house

Tax-reform and sales

In the last couple of seasons, the real estate scene was marked by a fitful start-and-stop-and-start-again rhythm. Many would-be buyers sat on the sidelines in the year leading up the 2016 presidential election, uncertain what the outcome would bring. The shake-ups accompanying President Donald Trump’s first months in office didn’t do much to ease the uncertainty, even as the buoyant stock market continued to fatten portfolios.

But by the time the season kicked off in October, many brokers were optimistic that the tide finally had turned. Angle echoed many of his colleagues when he told the Daily News last fall that “the velocity of transactions in 2017 has been far stronger than what I saw last year.”

And then came December and the long-awaited Congressional tax overhaul, which generally favors business, industry and the wealthy, thanks to changes to the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax.

Add in a robust economy, and even February’s stock-market correction couldn’t dampen sales in Palm Beach, where there’s no state income tax, a relatively low sales tax and a limited tax on intangible personal property. The Wall Street dip may have actually encouraged some buyers to invest in real estate rather than in a volatile stock market, some brokers have speculated.

“We have the perfect storm, with the tax changes that are driving people here,” said broker Bill Yahn of the Corcoran Group, where his duties as senior regional vice president have included overseeing the island brokerage.

More residents of high-tax states — think New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois and California — are looking to establish a homestead here to boost their bottom lines through tax advantages, Yahn said.

And many of those buyers are younger and work in the financial, investment or technology fields. They are realizing that a primary home here won’t hinder their ability to do business elsewhere, thanks to the internet and the proximity of Palm Beach International Airport, Angle said.

“The world has become a smaller place, and the desire to live in South Florida — and particularly in Palm Beach — continues to increase every day,” Angle said, noting the growth over the past decade of academic, health-care and cultural institutions in Palm Beach County.

“We’re becoming more of an established community, a place that many people are going to use as their home base,” Angle adds.

That famous snowbird

Also playing a role in attracting new residents, brokers say, are the traditional selling points, including its natural beauty, security, handsome architecture and warm climate. The latter may have played a strong role in Palm Beach’s go-go market this season, considering that many northern cities were walloped this winter by a series of snowstorms. Weather-weary residents there may have given the island a second look, especially amid the international news coverage that accompanied Trump — the town’s most famous snowbird — on his frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago.

Even the landscape damage and power outages left after Hurricane Irma’s outer winds hit on Sept. 9 appear not to have had a lasting impact on buyers’ willingness invest in Palm Beach real estate.

Indeed, some properties that had been on the market for a year or even longer finally found buyers this season. That doesn’t surprise real estate analyst Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants, based in New York City. Miller prepares detailed quarterly sales reports for the markets where Douglas Elliman Real Estate does business, including greater New York City and South Florida.

“Palm Beach is a national outlier,” Miller said, noting that many other upscale markets have not experienced such “an expansion of luxury sales.”

Miller is particularly impressed that the sales on the island, for the most part, haven’t been driven by drastic price reductions, even as the market has surged, according to his analysis of MLS figures.

“We just haven’t seen a significant discount of the asking prices,” Miller said, adding that buyers and sellers seem to be meeting in the middle from the get-go. That’s not the case in other affluent markets he studies, such as Greenwich, Conn.

“In Greenwich, for example, we are seeing much larger discounts,” he added. “In Palm Beach, the surge wasn’t about the pricing itself. It was about buyers who had been in a holding pattern finally getting the signal last fall” to take the plunge and sign contracts.

And that has left buyers facing an inventory crunch that ultimately may boost prices, based on the laws of supply and demand, he added.

“Sales are way up but pricing was flat and inventory hasn’t really risen,” Miller said. “It suggests to me that at least there’s a potential for (upward) price pressure going forward.”

How big is too big?

Because Palm Beach is built-out, buyers looking for a new or newer house — as many are, brokers agree — often find that the selection is limited. No wonder some would-be home buyers have opted to forgo the island entirely, instead paying millions for condominiums in The Bristol, the under-construction, ultra-luxury tower under construction in West Palm Beach, just across the Royal Park Bridge.

And that means developers who build houses on speculation are continuing their scramble to keep up with the demand, even as land on the island fetches historic highs. Prices for even smaller lots begin at $250 per square foot these days, said Yahn. Do the math and a 100-by-100 foot lot, the standard minimum for a house, is typically selling for least $2.5 million.

The North End, in fact, has become a construction zone for houses offering the sort of features buyers want — open floor plans with plenty of natural light and fine interior finishes. And their demand for higher ceilings — coupled with higher elevations to meet new flood-plane requirements — can result in taller houses.

That’s been a sore spot for neighbors who have complained vigorously to the Architectural Commission about projects they view are simply too large for their lots. The board this season regularly faced that issue and as a result, the approval process from some projects took six months, or even longer, as commissioners demanded multiple revisions.

RELATED: North End neighbors win appeal after objecting to house design

Subdividing large estates

Complicating the picture is a trend to knock down aging larger estate houses and subdivide the land or resale as vacant lots. The Architectural Commission this season wrestled with the scale of spec houses proposed for newly subdivided lots on the North End at 446 N. Lake Way, 901 N. Ocean Blvd. and 535 N. County Road. So far, only the contemporary-style house proposed for the latter lot has won approval and only after multiple revisions by developer Mark Pulte of Mark Timothy Inc.

In the Estate Section, developer Sir Peter Wood in October sold for $7 million the first of five vacant lots he carved from the 4.2-acre former estate of the late John Kluge at the corner of South County Road and El Bravo Way. In April, Wood also sold, for a recorded $18.25 million, a landmarked 1921 oceanfront house at 89 Middle Road that Kluge had used as a guesthouse. Angle brokered both deals.

Meanwhile, at the opposite end of town, billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin took a completely different tack. Since late 2012 with the help of Moens, Griffin has spent more than $230 million assembling properties for his ocean-to-lake estate at 1265 S. Ocean Blvd. It could total more than 17 acres, once a pending sale is finalized.

By the beginning of this season, Griffin had cleared his oceanfront land of several houses and began excavating the basement for his house, which was designed to stretch longer than a football field.

But in early April, Griffin astounded real estate observers by pulling the plug on the project and sent word to town officials that budget overruns had caused him to abort the planned house. A spokesman told the Daily News Griffin plans to head back to the drawing board at some point with a new design team. Griffin still owns a house on the estate at 70 Blossom Way that he uses when he visits Palm Beach.

His abrupt decision to regroup gave brokers and their agents plenty to talk about, even as they uncorked another bottle of champagne to celebrate their latest deals.

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NEW: West Palm advances plan for Clear Lake bike trail to downtown

A view of downtown West Palm Beach across Clear Lake, north of Okeechobee Boulevard on April 24, 2018. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

WEST PALM BEACH —

West Palm Beach’s next waterfront attraction won’t be along the Lake Worth Lagoon.

It’ll be a “Turquoise Necklace” along Clear Lake, where the city plans to establish a 1.6-mile trail on the reservoir’s western edge to entice apartment dwellers to commute downtown by bike or on foot, on a scenic route with skyline views and a boardwalk.

West Palm Beach commissioners voted Monday to apply for a state “transportation alternatives” grant to establish the trail, envisioned as a 10-foot-wide pathway linking Okeechobee Boulevard with Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, with downtown to the east and Palm Beach Outlets mall to the west.

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The administration of Mayor Jeri Muoio has spent years planning an extended network of bicycle paths throughout the city. Some of the bike master plan has begun materializing in recent months.

On Lake Avenue, for example, workers in have been installing “Zebra” lane separators to provide a safety margin for bicyclists. Bright green bike lanes have been painted on some downtown roads, as have “sharrows,” markings instructing motorists to share the streets.

The neighborhood just across Clear Lake from downtown has been on the mayor’s mind for some time. In 2016 she joined developer Jeff Greene there to celebrate the impending demolition of the abandoned Sail Club apartment complex, a graffiti-ridden collection of building hulks that blighted the Okeechobee approach to downtown.

The Clear Lake trail would start as a section of curving boardwalk connecting the sidewalk on the north side of Okeechobee to the lakefront next to the old Sail Club site, now a wild field awaiting eventual development.

The boardwalk would give way to a new sidewalk, continuing northwest along the water, near a neighborhood of low-rise apartments, and connecting to an existing sidewalk that leads to Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., near the outlet mall.

The city estimates there are 3,750 homes and several commercial areas near the proposed trail.

Monday’s vote authorized the administration to apply to the Florida Department of Transportation for a grant of up to $1 million for the project. An exact cost estimate was not provided by city officials. If the city is awarded the grant, the money would be available in 2021.

The neighborhood is less than a mile from downtown, but as much as three miles on existing roads, the city said in its application to the Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency, which in turn will seek money from the state agency. The project would create a connection to encourage people to use cars less on Okeechobee and Palm Beach Lakes boulevards, an provide “an active transportation choice for residents, workers, and visitors.”

“The trail is an initial phase of the city’s Turquoise Necklace open space and transportation concept, which seeks to provide active transportation options around the city’s multiple lakes and canals,” the application said. The plan contemplates extending the Turquoise Necklace around other lakes and canals.

The next phase of the Clear Lake trail will hug the east side of Clear Lake, from Fern Street to Okeechobee. The final phase will link the first two, so the complete trail will connect all the way from Palm Beach Lakes to Fern, with shade trees and lighting along the way.

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From a 9-to-5 to the open road, this local couple is taking a risk on the past

There’s a young couple in West Palm Beach fighting against the 24/7 digital era that is their lives. They don’t want to be victims of it, and who can blame them? It’s exhausting.

Being connected all day, every day is a drag. And while, yes, a "company" phone is a luxury these days, let’s be real: It’s never really a perk. Because of it, there’s no “clock out” button in 2018 — unless you create it for yourself like the Burgoons have.

The traveling thrifters and owners of Something Good Boutique are breaking free from the digital, 9-to-5 workday, one mile and one piece of clothing at a time. The online resale boutique in West Palm opened in 2016, and for the couple, the small business venture means sending fewer texts and taking more trips. It also means more focus on the old and less on the new. What a life.

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By picking through thrift shops across the country, the Burgoons up-cycle what they find, hoping to reduce their textile waste and ours.

“Brands used to produce for four seasons, now there are 52 seasons. Every week there’s a new line coming out. That’s so much clothing and so much waste. It’s not just that these brands are low quality, but they’re pumping [the clothes] out so fast,” said Christina Burgoon.

One scroll through the boutique’s Instagram account and you see their mission and their vibe. The couple takes the tediousness out of thrift-hopping, giving the eco-conscious fashionista a curated shopping experience. And this is just the beginning. Tap on over to Poshmark to get the full, vintage digs experience.

“I have such a passion for vintage clothes because those clothes were built to withstand the test of time. And I know that that piece of clothing has a story, and I don’t want that story to end at a landfill,” Christina noted.

I’m still in love with mixing patterns. (Peep

the amazing bag she got on @poshmark)

shop patterns in the closet today!

#gotsomethinggood

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Christina Burgoon, 28, made the first step in February of 2018 by quitting her full-time job and dedicating her time to building the boutique’s brand. Meanwhile, her husband Paul, 30, keeps the dream alive and the family-of-four fed with his full-time engineering gig in Vero Beach. The Burgoons married in 2016 and have two rescued dogs.

Last fall, after emptying out their savings, they purchased a 1987 Toyota Sunraider. And they put that baby to work. From exploring the open road to storing vintage merch, their Sunraider is life, and the Burgoons, like their generational peers, are supporting brighter ideas of this "entitled" group.

Millennials are more than the selfie generation. They’re hustlers. They don’t just dream — they live. Big — or small — depending on your perspective.

Y’ALL!! I’m the fastest packager on the East Coast!!

no, but for real – I did this time lapse to show how much love goes in to a posh package. And, I’m not just tooting my own horn. There’s so many poshers who have such adorable packaging. Just look up #poshpackages and you’ll see! Anyone can throw up an item on Poshmark sell it and ship it BUT what’s making you stand out among the rest? Is it a business card? A free gift? A stamp? Pretty tape? I know a lot of successful poshers have gotten to the point where they’ve become lazy and only care about the purchase and not all the steps before and after. Y’all, these buyers WILL come back. I promise you that. Stand out, be different, go the extra mile. Even if it means standing up for 3 hours making sure everything is perfect. Even if it means lint rolling for hours to make sure there’s not a SINGLE speck on the item. Even if it means running out half way through packaging because you ran out of tape AGAIN. For me, it’s not about shipping off an item and collecting your money. I’m trying to brand myself and you should be, too. And at the end of the day, if I made someone’s day because I sent their package with glittery tape then it’s all worth it, right?

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So when it comes to their smartphones, they’re not completely disconnected. They can’t be. These hustlers have to get the word out. And unlike days of old, they can own the commercial space with their exact target audience for little financial investment.

There’s no such thing as being "anti-internet," not with a business just beginning to the bloom. Something Good Boutique banks almost 90% of its sales from website purchases. And people find this website through the boutique’s social media.

“We were looking for an outlet to travel and to do what we like to do, and that’s re-purpose [clothing],” said Paul. “The internet allows us to have an income on the road, and the RV gives us storage for the clothes.”

Because they carry their finds in their vintage ride, they can ship them from anywhere as soon as someone makes an online order. Talk about near-instant gratification. This flexibility means they can keep moving and avoid paying rent for a physical store.

The RV is basically the fifth member of their family, which is why it’s affectionately been named “Marty.” And Marty’s loaded: queen size bed, full bathroom, living room, water tank, kitchen and plenty of storage.

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The Burgoons have traveled to several states on the East Coast, and the Midwest is their next target. The couple says that every location keeps things exciting, and not just because of the natural beauty and state parks.

“Every single state that you go to has a different niche. In Daytona Beach [Florida], we’ve found a lot of vintage Harley Davidson and Nascar. Here in Palm Beach County we’ve found a lot of retro Chanel items,” said Christina. “Just one state up, in Georgia, the fashion is much different. You’ll get a more hip-hop vibe in Atlanta, vintage snap back hats, etc.”

The Burgoons want to continue traveling and hopefully join pop-up markets where they can share their findings. In West Palm , you can catch them at Elizabeth Station (if they’re in town.)

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The couple also says that traveling allows them to visit family and friends who live in other states. Though living on wheels is a dream for many, it isn’t an easy reality. The Burgoons say shopping can get very expensive and tiring. They can spend anywhere from one to five hours in a single store and may visit five to six stores in a day. Then there’s the hours spent driving across state lines, the money spent on travel expenses and the time lost on stops to walk the dogs or restock the kitchen.

“It’s not an easy life, by any means. It’s a lot of work. Road trips can be exhausting,” said Paul Burgoon. “If you go somewhere for like less than two days, it’s not even worth it.”

Something Good Boutique, at this moment, is still a seed in need of water, but the Burgoons aren’t shying away from the challenge. In small steps, they’re living the life they love, and they couldn’t be happier.

Every mile they travel and every store they visit is more fulfilling than any second could they spend sitting at a desk for someone else’s company.

“That’s the whole point… to be able figure out a way to work and also stay on the road,” said Paul Burgoon. “We want to be outdoors more, no cube-life.”

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Developers See Opportunity In Growing Palm Beach County

Even with a Kennedy here and a Pulitzer there, Palm Beach County has always been pretty sleepy. But the real estate rebound of the past few years has transformed the area just as it did Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The effects are eye-popping.

Right now, the county’s most expensive condo is not an oceanfront development on swanky Palm Beach Island, but rather a modern building nearing completion on mainland West Palm Beach. Here, residents can still get water views of the Intracoastal Waterway, without as much hurricane exposure, and are in walking distance to pedestrian-friendly main drag Clematis Street.

The Bristol, built on the site of the former Chapel By The Lake at 1112 South Flagler Drive, has 69 units. The Palm Beach Post reported that prices are "astronomical, ranging from $1,500 to more than $2,500 per SF." A floor sold for a rumored $40M.

Nearby, a 205-unit luxury rental building, the Alexander, opened in 2017. Two more luxury projects — the 315-unit Broadstone City Center at 410 Datura St. and the 290-unit Park-Line, between Datura and Evernia streets — are almost completed.

Todd Michael Glaser, who made his name developing high-end homes in Miami and is an investor in famed architect Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand Museum tower in Miami, has lately been working in Palm Beach.

"I am still doing a lot of development and building in Miami," Glaser told Bisnow. "I just like the Palm Beach/West Palm Beach market, as it’s a generational change in Palm Beach, which I’ve never seen before, as younger families are moving in."

The once neglected, now-trendy neighborhood of Northwood is seeing mini condos, and a $145M project is planned on the site of the old City Hall.

Several developers have migrated north from Miami in recent years. Billionaire Jeff Greene has several multifamily projects underway, although The Real Deal reported that he killed a plan for micro-units late last year because of worries about oversupply, even though Palm Beach County’s population growth has been outpacing the nation, at 2.8%. The population is expected to hit 1.5 million this year, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Relatively new homeowners in Palm Beach include Howard Stern and Jon Bon Jovi. Bob Vila’s son helped bring a food hall concept to West Palm. Of course, the guy in the White House also has digs in Palm Beach.

"Donald Trump has, in many ways, heightened people’s awareness of Palm Beach. He has increased interest in the county more broadly," said DDG Chairman and CEO Joe McMillan, who is building 30 units at 3550 South Ocean, where the Palm Beach Hawaiian Oceanfront Inn (locally famous for its dive bar) once stood.

"That’s the opportunity here — there has been so little development on Palm Beach Island in a dozen years," McMillan said. "On the island, most condos are 30 to 40 years old. There’s no new housing stock."

Palm Beach offers "a certain refined lifestyle that you can’t get anywhere else in South Florida," McMillan said, and people who travel like its easy access to the airport, which is a straight shot over the Southern Boulevard bridge from Mar-a-Lago.

DDG’s units will sell for $1.9M to $7.2M. McMillan said the project is 25% sold and that most buyers are hailing from North America, including some right in Palm Beach County who want to downsize from single-family homes.

It was also announced this week that townhouses will likely rise at 456 South County Road, formerly the longtime site of Charley’s Crab.

Glaser and McMillan will be speaking at Bisnow’s Palm Beach County Multifamily event in Palm Beach April 12.

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Palm Beach seeks dismissal of federal suit challenging assessments

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A lawsuit challenging the town’s plan to finance its utility undergrounding project remains alive after a Palm Beach Towers property owner recently filed an amended complaint.

Filed last year in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the suit attacked on Constitutional grounds the town’s plan to pay for the island-wide utility burial with special assessments on property owners. The suit cites the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.

The suit contends that owners of the 273 units at the Palm Beach Towers should not be assessed by the town to pay for the undergrounding project because their utilities already are buried and because the distribution system that serves the Towers, at 44 Cocoanut Row, also is already underground.

The Towers’ board of directors has said it is not involved with the litigation.

In February, the court granted the town’s motion to dismiss the suit but allowed the plaintiff, PBT Real Estate LLC, which owns a unit at the Towers, to file an amended complaint.

That amended complaint was filed on March 19. It says the town is arbitrarily imposing special assessments against PBT Real Estate’s property, without conferring any benefit on it. “The Special Assessment, without benefit to PBT’s Property, is an unconstitutional tax,” it states.

Edward A. Dion, the Fort Lauderdale lawyer representing the town, said the town would file another motion asking that the suit be dismissed.

PBT Real estate LCC originally sued last year in Palm Beach Circuit Court. In addition to the town, it named Palm Beach County Property Appraiser Dorothy Jacks and Palm Beach County Tax Collector Anne Gannon as defendants.

Last year, the suit was moved to U.S. District Court, with Becker & Poliakoff, a Fort Lauderdale law firm, responsible for its defense. It was originally filed by John D. O’Neill, PBT Real Estate’s registered agent. He is a West Palm Beach resident and an attorney.

The special assessments also are being tested by another law suit in state court. In that lawsuit, filed last year in Palm Beach Circuit Court, South End resident Carol Kosberg and North End resident Michael Scharf allege the assessments are invalid because the town relied on a consultant’s “arbitrary assessment methodology.”

They are asking a judge to certify the case as a class action, declare the special assessments void, and permanently block the town from imposing special assessments. A judge has denied the town’s motion to dismiss the case. A hearing date has not been set.

The courts have dismissed a third lawsuit that challenged the utility project.

In that case, South End resident Arthur Goldmacher filed a suit challenging a 2016 referendum in which voters narrowly approved a $90 million bond issue to finance the town-wide burial of overhead (the town plans to use the assessment proceeds to repay the bonds).

On March 15, a three-member judicial panel in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach upheld Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Cymonie Rowe’s dismissal of Goldmacher’s lawsuit. Last year, Rowe found that the referendum ballot language was neither misleading nor illegal.

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What Is My IRS Pin?

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The last few years have been difficult ones for the IRS with respect to security issues, and the agency is determined to improve security during this year’s filing. Electronic filing is particularly vulnerable because of the speed of the process it is a favorite method among thieves who steal information from taxpayers and file fraudulent tax returns in their name. As Bankrate.com Chief Financial Analyst Greg McBride points out, "Tax ID fraud is one of those things where somebody can have your Social Security number and they could have been sitting on it for a while, and you would have no idea until they go and file a bogus tax return under your Social Security number. You only find out at the point where your legitimate return gets rejected."

Betterment Head of Tax Eric Bronnenkant gives the following example: "Let’s say someone steals your Social Security number and they file a return illegally using that, so then when you actually go to file your tax return, the IRS is going to say, ‘Wait a minute, you already filed and we already sent you a refund.’ Now you have to spend, let’s say approximately six months, a year, some exorbitant amount of time fighting with the IRS to ultimately get the refund that you actually deserve."

Among the proactive steps that the IRS has taken is to eliminate the option of an electronic filing PIN (e-PIN) to prove your identity on your electronic filing. There are currently three options for verifying an electronic form: an IRS Self-Select PIN from a previous year’s entry, entry of your previous year’s adjusted gross income (AGI), or an IRS-issued Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) number.

The IRS IP PIN Number is not available to the general public; you must meet eligibility requirements. It is a six-digit number assigned by the agency primarily to victims of identity theft, along with certain residents of Florida, Georgia, and the District of Columbia that are participating in an IP PIN Pilot program. IP PINs are mailed to recipients in December for the next year’s filing and are only good for that year a new IP PIN is mailed to you each December.

Once you are assigned an IRS IP PIN, you must use that as your identification tool for federal tax returns. Your electronic return will be rejected without it, and your paper return will be delayed until your identity can be properly verified.

If you lose your IP PIN, don’t panic. You can use the Get an IP PIN online tool to retrieve your IP PIN. The opening page will list the items you need to prove your identity and retrieve your PIN.

The IRS Self-Select PIN is a five-digit number of your choosing. Any combination except all zeroes is allowed. You can choose a new Self-Select PIN for the purposes of signing an electronic return, but if you want it to serve as identification, you will need to use last year’s Self-Select PIN number as this year’s number.

If you need your 2016 AGI as proof of identity, you will find it on line 37 on Form 1040 for the 2016 tax year that you filed in 2017. For 1040A filers, the AGI is on line 21; for 1040EZ filers, the AGI is on line 4. Firsttime filers over age 16 should enter an AGI of zero.

Did you forget to keep a copy of last year’s return? If you used a commercial tax preparer, you may be able to acquire a copy of your 2016 tax form from them. Otherwise, you can access your 2016 tax form by using the Get Transcript Online page on the IRS website. You can choose to access your transcript immediately online or have a transcript mailed to you. Mailed transcripts will arrive within five to ten calendar days of the request.

The online method requires stricter security measures, so if you find you don’t have the necessary information, you may have to resort to the mailing method.

Go ahead and grumble about the extra steps if you must, but let’s give the IRS credit. They are taking the necessary steps to reduce instances of tax identity fraud. Keep that in mind as you file your taxes, and let’s hope that their measures succeed.

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Olympusat Promotes Multicultural Education in West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach, FL – March 19, 2018 – Olympusat, Inc., one of the largest independent media companies specializing in the ownership, distribution, production and technical services of Spanish and English-language networks, hosted a group of students from South Olive Elementary School at their West Palm Beach Corporate Office for a fun and educational event in which every guest had the opportunity to learn about how video marketing, advertising, and media can help improve the community’s connection with Spanish-speaking families.

On March 12th, a selected group of students, staff members and parents visited Olympusat’s studios for a guided tour of the company’s facilities. During their stay, they had the opportunity to learn from industry professionals about video editing, filming, audio and color correction, as well as the day-to-day processes involved in video production. In addition, each student worked on producing, filming and editing a commercial that they had previously prepared in school. Before their visit, the students had submitted a commercial or public service announcement idea to help educate the South Olive community about important issues regarding multiculturalism and community involvement.

“We are excited to join efforts, once again, with South Olive Elementary School. Over the past year, we have worked closely with the students to help promote multicultural education within the classroom and the community,” stated Charles Mohler, President of Olympusat Holdings. “It was a joy to watch the students gain hands-on experience directly from our team of TV and media professionals. The students had fun as they worked on different tasks in front and behind the camera. I have to admit that the next generation of media professionals looks really strong.”

The commercial created by the students of South Olive Elementary School will be featured on the school’s website and showcased on an array of school events and activities. The commercial will also be presented to a large audience on April 26th during the South Olive Elementary International Night.

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