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1 Boca presents downsized plan for downtown campus; residents and advocates loudly oppose leasing public land
Summary
Developer Terran Frisbie presented a revised downtown government‑campus plan that keeps Memorial Park public and shrinks leasable area to under 8 acres, while projecting $3.8 billion in gross revenue over 99 years; public comment was extensive and sharply split, ranging from legal challenges to vocal support for jobs and safer fields.
Rob Frisbie, representing the 1 Boca team, presented a revised master plan for the downtown government campus at the Boca Raton City Council meeting on Oct. 28, promising to keep all land west of NW 2nd Avenue in public ownership, double public recreational space and reduce leasable land east of NW 2nd Avenue to under 8 acres.
Frisbie summarized the plan’s core commitments: preserve Memorial Park and its banyan trees on the west side; locate mixed‑use development east of NW 2nd Avenue on largely transit‑adjacent private parcels; and increase public recreational acreage from about 7.6 acres to 15.4 acres. He said the plan would include roughly 769 residential units, 186 condominium units, a…
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