Planning the Future of Downtown Boca

We’re about to begin a six-month planning process involving City Hall, Memorial Park and the surrounding public property. As part of that process, I think we should ask a more fundamental question: What actually needs to be downtown? And we should start with a larger goal. The Downtown Civic Campus and Memorial Park give us […]

Our Two Choices for Police Headquarters

I attended last week’s Community Conversation on the proposed Police Headquarters. The City Manager explained how the alternatives had been narrowed to two sites. The Police Chief explained something equally important: wherever headquarters is located, officers will continue to be deployed throughout Boca based on where police services are needed. So the choice of headquarters […]