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Yeah, not your grandparent’s WPB....The Bristol luxury condo in WPB is averaging $2000/sq foot with the most expensive one currently on the market now for just under $30M. Status is no longer limited to Palm Beach island.
One area where SoFla is gaining a stronger foothold since the advent of Covid is in the financial industry as more hedge funds and bank divisions have relocated their companies, personnel and/or opened satellite offices here. Palm Beach County, not just Miami, has been a beneficiary of such moves. The big prize will be if Goldman Sachs follows through on a rumored relocation of its asset management division to the Palm Beach area.
When I lived in Palm Beach County in the not-so-distant past, the top financial services employers in the local area were Aflac and Northwestern Mutual. LMAO!
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It’s growing and is an interesting place. Delray Beach is fairly lively but comes across as a mix of Jersey Shore meets rehab centers; Boca is a bunch of gated golf club communities trending older (than me). I loved being able to crash at my oldest friend’s guest house in Palm Beach and close to Worth Avenue, etc but he moved to as nice but quieter and further away Jupiter.....I’m not ready to return to a suburban lifestyle but it is a nice area—the Orange County, CA meets Greenwich, CT of SoFla.
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When I lived in Palm Beach County in the not-so-distant past, the top financial services employers in the local area were Aflac and Northwestern Mutual. LMAO!
It’s growing and is an interesting place. Delray Beach is fairly lively but comes across as a mix of Jersey Shore meets rehab centers; Boca is a bunch of gated golf club communities trending older (than me). I loved being able to crash at my oldest friend’s guest house in Palm Beach and close to Worth Avenue, etc but he moved to as nice but quieter and further away Jupiter.....I’m not ready to return to a suburban lifestyle but it is a nice area—the Orange County, CA meets Greenwich, CT of SoFla.
Famous NYC rappers are even making videos about Boca Raton now. The wealth there is incredible. And there's a huge percentage of young people there these days. Florida Atlantic University is even right in the middle of the city. That college alone has over 30,000 students. Plus there's other large colleges in the city. And it's right next to Delray Beach's nightlife etc. I think you're selling it a little short.. The place is gorgeous.
But yeah the gated communities are crazy too. This article below says Forbes ranked 3 of Boca's gated neighborhoods on their Top 10 most expensive gated communities in the entire U.S. list. 3 out of 10 just in Boca Raton alone. I haven't been there for a while but I can only imagine what's been happening to it lately.. The whole metro is on fire now and it's already completely built out. The only direction left to build is up.
Check out the rap video below too. It's pretty cool.
I’m not ready to return to a suburban lifestyle but it is a nice area—the Orange County, CA meets Greenwich, CT of SoFla.
Having lived in both the Orange County, CA and Greenwich, CT areas, and now residing in South Florida, you couldn’t be more spot on with that.
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Famous NYC rappers are even making videos about Boca Raton now. The wealth there is incredible. And there's a huge number of young people there these days. Florida Atlantic University is even right in the middle of the city. That college alone has over 30,000 students. I think you're selling it a little short..
Yeah, not your grandparent’s WPB....The Bristol luxury condo in WPB is averaging $2000/sq foot with the most expensive one currently on the market now for just under $30M. Status is no longer limited to Palm Beach island.
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Famous NYC rappers are even making videos about Boca Raton now. The wealth there is incredible. And there's a huge percentage of young people there these days. Florida Atlantic University is even right in the middle of the city. That college alone has over 30,000 students. Plus there's other large colleges in the city. And it's right next to Delray Beach's nightlife etc. I think you're selling it a little short.. The place is gorgeous.
Back when I lived in Palm Beach County, something like the Bristol in West Palm Beach was simply unimaginable. Clematis Street was cheap old stores or empty storefronts. Boca Raton was . . . not bad. Florida Atlantic University was a third-rate school that you only attended if the University of Florida turned you down. As for Delray Beach, East Atlantic Avenue was frozen in the 1950s (which actually made it kind of interesting, if a bit outdated) while West Atlantic Avenue was where you went if you wanted to get shot.
Back when I lived in Palm Beach County, something like the Bristol in West Palm Beach was simply unimaginable. Clematis Street was cheap old stores or empty storefronts. Boca Raton was . . . not bad. Florida Atlantic University was a third-rate school that you only attended if the University of Florida turned you down. As for Delray Beach, East Atlantic Avenue was frozen in the 1950s (which actually made it kind of interesting, if a bit outdated) while West Atlantic Avenue was where you went if you wanted to get shot.
Clearly, I lived there about 40 years too soon.
As a relative newcomer to Palm Beach County, I can’t even imagine any of that. Don’t get me wrong, Riviera Beach and parts of WPB can be downright dangerous if you venture there, but by land large, the old “hood” is no longer, apparently.
Famous NYC rappers are even making videos about Boca Raton now. The wealth there is incredible. And there's a huge percentage of young people there these days. Florida Atlantic University is even right in the middle of the city. That college alone has over 30,000 students. Plus there's other large colleges in the city. And it's right next to Delray Beach's nightlife etc. I think you're selling it a little short.. The place is gorgeous.
But yeah the gated communities are crazy too. This article below says Forbes ranked 3 of Boca's gated neighborhoods on their Top 10 most expensive gated communities in the entire U.S. list. 3 out of 10 just in Boca Raton alone. I haven't been there for a while but I can only imagine what's been happening to it lately.. The whole metro is on fire now and it's already completely built out. The only direction left to build is up.
Check out the rap video below too. It's pretty cool.
Historically, FAU was a highly non-selective, very lowly ranked national university, with over 95% of full-time students living off-campus and commuting daily. To my understanding, the FAU Admissions Committee has become more selective over the past ten years, but FAU will always be a glorified junior college held in low regard relative to other public research universities in Florida, the likes of which include UF and FSU.
Also, to clarify your point about FAU being the lifeblood of Boca Raton, most of the students at FAU are poor people of color from Broward County or northern Palm Beach County who do not and have never lived in Boca. Trust me, nobody who lives at The Sanctuary or the Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club is sending their children to FAU.
Finally, FAU has 8-12 different campuses and learning centers across South Florida, so many FAU students rarely, if ever, visit the flagship campus in Boca. For the record, there are not 30,000 students on campus at FAU at any given time when classes are in session.
Conversely, Lynn University, which is another lowly ranked university in Boca, albeit private, not public, has very low enrollment relative to FAU, and most students at Lynn are from wealthy families up North and totally disconnected from the Greater Boca community.
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