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“The Future Began Here– 24th “Honor Your Doctor”

The Future Is Here”... Luncheon Presented by

Boca History Museum to Host Rotary Club Downtown Boca

Rap Session with CP Group’s to Recognize 2020

Angelo Bianco on April 7th and 2022 Honorees

What began as an outpost for IBM’s Research & Development—the birthplace of the Double honors
personal computer—is today a state-of-the-art, accessible 1.7 million square foot office park and appreciation for
known as Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC). Boca-based owner and operator CP Group their expertise, patient
acquired the office park in 2018 with the vision of bringing its history into the future and creating care and dedication to
an ecosystem where innovation continues to thrive. Today, BRiC is home to 18 national and the Hippocratic oath
19 regional office tenants with up to 6,000 employees. during the historically
As part of the Boca Raton History Museum’s Rap Session series, challenging pandemic
CP Group Managing Partner Angelo Bianco will share interesting years 2020 and 2021,
IBM anecdotes (like how Bill Gates negotiated the biggest business Boca Raton’s finest
deal of our lifetime right here in Boca Raton) and his firm’s current healthcare providers
process for transforming BRiC into a vibrant, robust destination will be celebrated
for today’s workforce with Google-campus-type amenities such as at the 2022 “Honor
Boca Raton’s first food hall, STEAM lab, and presentation space. Y our Doctor”
BRiC is pursuing plans to reimagine the 123-acre office park Luncheon. Presented
property into a sought-after high-tech, community-focused planned by the Rotary Club
mobility destination where today’s forward-thinking employers can Downtown Boca 2022 Honor Your Doctor Luncheon Committee (From Left): Front
recruit and grow the “best and brightest” workforce, while elevating Raton, the event will Row: HYDL Co-Chairs Alan Kaye and Janice Williams, RCDTB
and benefiting our community as a whole. Angelo Bianco Photo be held Wednesday, President Jon Carter, RCDTB President-Elect Jeff Weber. Second
Just as Mizner Park was conceived in Boca Raton as a provided by CP Group. March 30th at Boca Row: Ron Rubin, Gwendolyn Herb, Arlene Herson. Top Row: Anne
groundbreaking model of its time, plans for BRiC could once again West Country Club at Brown, Gloria Wank, Linda Petrakis, Jon Kaye, Marilyn Wilson.
put Boca Raton on the map for other municipalities to study and embrace for their placemaking. 11:30 a.m., concluding Photo Credit: Gina Fontana.
The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum (SBRHM) has scheduled this year’s first Rap at 1:30 p.m.
Session at historic Town Hall at 71 N. Federal Highway (33432). For more information, please According to Co-Chairs Janice Williams of Matrix Home Care, LLC and Alan Kaye of
call (561) 395-6766 or visit www.BocaHistory.org. Transworld Business Advisors, both founding members of this Rotary Club chapter, the annual
Both before and after the Rap Session, attendees can visit The Schmidt Museum’s IBM luncheon recognizes and honors doctors, nurses and other medical professionals within Palm
Gallery, celebrating Boca Raton’s pivotal role as the home of the IBM PC personal computer. Beach and Broward counties, while raising funds for four-year scholarships for deserving

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Boca Museum of Art Reports

Record-Breaking Year in

Attendance and Memberships,

Announces World Premiere

Exhibitions for 2022

The Boca Raton Museum of Art, one of South Florida’s leading cultural institutions, has
announced record-breaking attendance numbers for the past year. In addition, the Museum
welcomed more new Annual Membership Packages than ever before, an increase in Memberships
Architectural Rendering of the planned 123-acre BRiC Office Park in Boca by 200% from thousands of households, and is launching the new season with the World Premiere
of Art of the Hollywood Backdrop—Cinema’s Creative Legacy, which will open on April 20th,
shortly after the March 6th closing of the extraordinarily popular Machu Picchu exhibition.
“Our city is thrilled that the Boca Raton Museum of Art succeeded in bringing the world
premiere of Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru here first,” said Andrea Levine
O’Rourke, the Deputy Mayor of the City of Boca Raton. “This spectacular tour de force has
shined the national spotlight on all of South Florida as a cultural destination,” adds the Deputy
Mayor. With only six weeks remaining until the closing on March 6th of this limited run, locals
and tourists are flocking to the Museum because this exhibition may not return to the U.S. again
until 2024 or 2025,–after the world tour continues next to museums across Europe and Asia.

Boca Museum of Art Reports on page 3