Tuesday, November 25, 2014

WATCH THIS BOYNTON BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD WEST OF THE TURNPIKE GROW AND THRIVE


 
Plans are being revived for a County Park west of Boynton Beach and Delray Beach on land donated by GL Homes who has built many communities in the area.  "We have got a lot of kids here," said Myrna Rosoff, president of the Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations, which represents about 40,000 households. "There is no place for the sports. … The west Boynton area is underserved."


Plans for construction of a $14MM 50-acre park near Canyon Town Center shopping center were stalled due to budget problems.  GL Homes donated due to their effort to build new neighborhoods on farmlands.  The land starts at the southwest corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Acme Dairy Road in the county’s Agricultural Reserve, west of Boynton Beach and Delray Beach.

Envisioned are sports fields including soccer, flag football, lacrosse, baseball and softball diamonds.  The County plans to spend $500,000 to design and get permits for proposed Canyon Park for 2015, and they are seeking a way to find long term funding for the estimated $14MM construction cost.  Plans were not accepted for a half-cent sales tax increase that might generate $110MM for improvements to parks, roads, bridges and other infrastructure, but they are being discussed again, with the Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations wanting the County Commission to let voters decide.


A tuition-free neighborhood charter middle school, Somerset Canyons Academy, has opened in Boynton on land donated by GL Homes.  For information about the school, see http://www.somersetcanyons.com/index.jsp.  Somerset Academy includes a series of high quality K-12 public charter schools throughout Florida, Texas, Nevada and Washington DC for over 16 years, with high schools ranking among state and nation’s top schools in US News & World Reports’ 2014 Best High Schools list and The Daily Beast’s 2014 list of top high schools.
 
For information about homes in the West Boynton Beach area, contact blog editor MARILYN JACOBS, Realtor with WEICHERT Heath & Joseph in Boynton Beach at 561-638-9818 or marilynfjacobs@gmail.com.

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