The Palm Beach Jai Alai Fronton in Mangonia Park soon could disappear from the Palm Beach County landscape if the property is redeveloped into a mixed-use center featuring thousands of new homes.
But nothing can be built on the 53-acre site at 1415 45th St. until the town gets a new, larger water storage tank for clean drinking water, Town Manager Ken Metcalf said in a March 31 interview with The Palm Beach Post.
But who owns the property? And what exactly is jai-alai? And why is such a valuable piece of land sitting vacant?…