From Brian Bandell: "Revised plans for 7.4-square-mile Avenir to go before public in Palm Beach Gardens"

Brian Bandell, the senior reporter at the South Florida Business Journal has the latest on the proposed Avenir project in Palm Beach Gardens. Here is an excerpt:

     The 4,763-acre site at 12200 Northlake Blvd. would be one of the largest development parcels in South Florida. The site is 4.5 miles long and 2.5 miles wide. It was acquired for $20 million in 2012 by Coral Gables-based Avenir Holdings, managed by David Serviansky of Landstar Development Group.
     Palm Beach Gardens will hold a public planning and zoning workshop for the Avenir plans on Oct. 13 at 6 p.m. in city council chambers. [emphasis added]

This will give you an idea of the scale of the project:

[. . .] Avenir would have 3,735 single-family homes, 250 townhomes, 1.8 million square feet of professional office space, 400,000 square feet of commercial/retail space, 200,000 square feet of medical office space, and 300 hotel rooms totaling 80,000 square feet. The developer hopes to land a university at the site.

On a similar topic here is my blog post about the future development of the Alton Tract (formerly known as the Briger Forest) that was given the go-ahead by the Palm Beach Gardens city commission on October 8th—a unanimous vote.