Even with a just-announced deadline extension, Palm Beach’s Midtown Beach Nourishment likely will end without sand being distributed along a roughly half-mile-long stretch of shoreline at the project’s southernmost point.
That would leave beachfront directly across from multi-million-dollar homes in the Estate Section untouched until the next project, in six to eight years.
Regulators already have granted the town two deadline extensions for the federally backed project, which originally was designed to replenish the coastline between Seminole Avenue on the near North End to Banyan Road. The latter street is about a seven-tenth of a mile south of Worth Avenue…