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Developer unveils scaled‑back downtown government campus; residents press to protect Memorial Park
Summary
Rob Frisbie of the 1 Boca team presented a revised plan that keeps all land west of NW 2nd Avenue in public hands, reduces leasable acreage from 31 to under 8 acres and doubles parkland, but residents and petition organizers urged the council to put protections before voters and questioned long‑term lease and revenue assumptions.
Rob Frisbie, representing the 1 Boca development team, presented a substantially revised concept for the proposed downtown government campus at the Boca Raton City Council workshop on Oct. 27.
Frisbie said the new proposal keeps "100% city owned and dedicated to public, civic, and recreational uses" west of NW 2nd Avenue and reduces the leasable area to ‘‘less than 8 acres’’ east of 2nd Avenue, focusing private development on underused parking lots and defunct buildings near the Brightline station. He said the revised plan would double public recreational space from about 7.6 acres to roughly 15.4 acres and add a pedestrian‑only retail promenade linking Palmetto to the Bridal/Brightline station.
The developer described program elements that include about 769 rental units, a 186‑unit condominium building on…
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