Residents Say No To Townhomes, Prefer Shopping Center

Residents of Boca Raton, FL. do not want storefronts to be converted storefronts into luxury townhomes but prefer to keep a shopping center.

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January 3, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Sheryl Stolzenberg

Read the full story: Boca residents oppose plan to transform storefronts into townhouses

Wednesday, January 2, 2002 in Sun-Sentinel

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