The Midtown area of Boca Raton has kept booming — with the latest planned addition a new community of nearly 300 residences that will include affordable housing.
The six-story residential community is set to rise at 1800 N. Military Trail, a parcel that’s tucked away near the Shops at Boca Center, a plaza that features many restaurants and stores, and a Marriott hotel. It’s also about a mile east of the Town Center at Boca Raton mall.
In recent years, Boca Raton’s Midtown has seen an influx of new buildings, such as Restaurant Row , which offers many new dining spots, and there’s also a five-story multi-use project with medical space, offices and restaurants along North Military Trail.
“This is truly a perfect location,” said Ele Zachariades, an urban planner and planning lawyer with Dunay, Miskel and Backman, who is behind the project for the nearly 300 residences, during a public city meeting on Oct. 8.
Of the new community’s proximity to restaurants and stores, she said: “We have over 100,000 square feet of restaurant and retail, and not within a quarter-mile, but literally abutting us, and hundreds of square feet of office and hotels and the like.”