Joel Engelhardt | Stet News

The Health Care District of Palm Beach County agreed to pay $16.7 million, 32 percent above appraised value, to build a crisis stabilization center at 100 N. Benoist Farms Road.

As experts predicted, the nearly double-digit increases in the Palm Beach County tax rolls slowed this year after a three-year ride. Property values rose 7.7% countywide, a slower increase than in the past three years.

A task force reduced the field of nearly 100 applicants for Palm Beach County administrator to seven last week, providing a look at the arguments likely to shape the debate over who should get the $400,000-a-year job.

West Palm Beach officials have long argued against the extension — alongside the Ibis Golf and Country Club — on environmental grounds, fearing the four-lane roadway would harm the neighboring Grassy Waters Preserve, a 23-square-mile preserve that holds city drinking water before it is treated.

No one lays claim to texts, sent in the name of little-known political committee, that alerted residents to a proposal to sell 55 acres to developer Stephen Ross for a private school. The messages urged recipients to call their city commissioner — many did.

Avenir developers sued in 2021 to challenge Palm Beach County’s decision to charge $105 million for roads; ruling could reduce bill by nearly $43 million.

The race for an open seat on the Palm Beach Gardens City Council is ablaze over firefighting, pitting establishment favorites against newcomers.

More than 1,200 new units rising 20 stories or more have been proposed or approved in the once-sleepy waterfront stretching north from Good Samaritan Medical Center to 54th Street.

Despite neighborhood opposition, nonprofit gets go-ahead to start construction of $40 million ice-rink complex in Plant Drive Park.

Murray Goodman won West Palm Beach’s approval to build Phillips Point in 1982; he also built The Esplanade in Palm Beach and Okee Square on Okeechobee Boulevard.

Board member says Palm Beach County Health Care District alliance with Tampa-based giant is ‘really something special.’

Juno Beach Council Member Jacob Rosengarten quits after Council Member Marianne Hosta pushes back against his proposal for a code of conduct by referencing her upbringing in post-World War II Germany.