Residents Say No To Townhomes, Prefer Shopping Center
3 January 2002 - 11:00am
Residents of Boca Raton, FL. do not want storefronts to be converted storefronts into luxury townhomes but prefer to keep a shopping center.
"Residents of northeast Boca Raton have clamored for projects that would revitalize North Federal Highway, an area dotted with older, strip shopping centers.But in an odd twist of the 'not in my back yard' syndrome, a proposal to turn storefronts into luxury townhouses has invoked the ire of some people who say they'd prefer to keep the shopping center."
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Sun-Sentinel, January 2, 2002
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