WEST PALM BEACH — The iron-stained tombstones, the patchy crabgrass, the aging asphalt paths of Woodlawn Cemetery sit starkly alongside the gleaming buildings sprouting up around it in the city’s downtown.
While the clang of construction and zip of traffic along Dixie Highway announce the city’s future, the 17-acre cemetery housing the graves of its earliest settlers sits quietly in the rustic trappings of its past.
A nonprofit formed by a group of wealthy donors is working with the city to change that, proposing to invest millions of dollars to update and reimagine Woodlawn as a “cemetery park.”…