Welcome to The Dirt! I’m real estate reporter Kimberly Miller with the latest developments in the sizzling market.
There’s nothing like a good real estate showdown to get the week started and that’s just what’s happening in West Palm Beach as Related Cos. of New York pitches a new 400-room Hilton hotel to cater to the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The county, however, wants at least 600 rooms and not a Hilton.
Not that the county has anything against Hilton, but a little competition never hurt anyone, and, maybe some people want the one-touch pancake machine at Holiday Inn Express’s continental breakfast. What? Not highfalutin enough? How about a one-touch crêpes machine?
With West Palm Beach growing like the line at the Dune Deck Café on Mother’s Day, it’s going to need to update its century-old water system that was originally designed by railroad tycoon and hotelier Henry Flagler. But it’s not going to be cheap.
Also, you think you get irked when your neighbor parks too close to your driveway or facing the wrong direction? Imagine if you were dealing with hundreds of tractor-trailers? That’s what the folks in The Acreage were facing until a recent county commission vote. But where’s a trucker to go? And more apartments are on the way for Palm Beach Gardens