Riviera Beach, School District Discuss 4‑Acre Swap, $45M Campus and City Hall Options

City staff told the Riviera Beach City Council that they are negotiating with the School District on a potential land swap so the district can relocate Inlet Grove High School and the city can develop a combined recreational and civic campus that would include a new Riviera Beach High School and associated park amenities.

The presentation described a concept in which the school district would receive approximately 4 acres on city-controlled land while the city would receive about 4 acres on the Callaway campus. Staff said the concept would create “synergy and joint use of athletic facilities” so taxpayers would not be paying twice for recreation. “The entire campus has $45,000,000 allocated to it,” a staff presenter said during the discussion.

City staff described the school’s proposed high school as a roughly 260,000-square-foot, three‑story building adjacent to the Wells Campus, and said the plan envisions a gymnasium expansion, baseball and softball fields, football practice fields, courts for basketball, tennis and pickleball, a splash pad, tot lot and parking. Staff also presented a “recreational campus” footprint for the Wells Campus and the Callaway campus, and said earlier community…