Riviera Beach planning board approves rezoning and site plan for 508-unit mixed-use project at 1117 Broadway

The Riviera Beach Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously on July 24 to approve a rezoning application and corresponding site-plan and special-exception requests for a proposed mixed‑use development at 1117 Broadway Boulevard.

The project, submitted by Aqua Holding LLC and presented by land-use attorney Wayne Richards and the development team, covers about 4.27 acres and calls for four towers with a total of 508 condominium units, roughly 10,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and an internal parking structure. Principal Planner Kurt Thompson told the board staff had reviewed the application and found it “consistent with all applicable standards of the land development regulations, the zoning code.”

Why it matters: The site sits on a vacant parcel at the southwest corner of U.S. 1 and Broadway and is in the downtown mixed‑use land‑use category. The proposal is among several large projects planned for the southern Broadway corridor that city and CRA officials say are intended to activate the waterfront and increase the local tax base.

Project details and staff findings The applicant described the development as a market‑rate condominium project with a parking structure wrapped by residential and ground‑floor retail. The design team said two rear towers would rise to about 20 stories and two front towers to about 13 stories, with the Broadway frontage kept to roughly seven stories to reduce the appearance of bulk along the thoroughfare.

Thompson said staff’s 24‑page report…