Another mixed-use project was approved in Boca Raton’s 700-acre Park at Broken Sound, adding to the pipeline of new developments planned in the former business park.
On Tuesday, the Boca Raton City Council unanimously approved two ordinances and three resolutions that will allow Aventura-based Meyers Accesso to build a 290,000-square-foot, 222-unit apartment project next to the Atrium at Broken Sound office building at 6111 Northwest Broken Sound Parkway.
The Boca Raton project, which was unanimously backed by the city’s planning and zoning board in November, will include about 2,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a rooftop pool deck, 23 affordable units and 12 workforce apartments. The developers will also be required to build a 2,000-square-foot dog park on site, Jim Bell, a Boca Raton project manager, told council members.
An affiliate of Meyers Accesso, a joint venture between Aventura-based Meyers Group, now led by CEO Alan Losada, and Hallandale Beach-based Accesso Partners, acquired the 10.5-acre office property that’s adjacent to an 18-hole golf course for $25 million in 2024.
The Atrium project is just one of developments that are moving forward within or near the Park at Broken Sound. The largest among them is the redevelopment of Office Depot’s headquarters by BH Group, PEBB Enterprises and the Real Group. That will include a revamped 405,000-square-foot office complex, a 37,000-square-foot Equinox gym, and a 500-unit apartment building.
Other projects slated to be built in the Park at Broken Sound area include a 334,000-square-foot mixed-income complex with 289 apartments at 900 Northwest Broken Sound Parkway that was approved by the Boca Raton City Council in July. And in March, Oak Lane Partners’ Bhavin Shah proposed building a 243-unit Live Local Act project next to its Park at Broken Sound headquarters at 791 Park of Commerce Boulevard.
More recently in September, New York-based Tishman Speyer paid $125 million for the 270-unit Bell at Broken Sound Apartments.
What won’t be going forward are plans by Beztak and Wexford Real Estate to add another 21 apartments and a fitness center to their previously approved 277-unit Bocora apartment project within the 21.4-acre Amtec Center business park at 6401-6481 Congress Avenue. The developers withdrew their request but still plan to designate a small Xceed Preparatory Academy tutoring center now operating in an Amtec Center office building as a private school. That request was also unanimously approved by the Boca Raton City Council this week.
