Page 24 - Boca ViewPointe - May '22

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Travel: Postcards Mayor’s Update: Boca Raton

From Jessica Infrastructure And School Upgrades

By Jessica Flores. Jessica
has worked in the travel and Scott Singer is the 35th above and below ground are done together to save
tourism industry for well Mayor of Boca Raton. millions in costs. It also saves residents money each
over a decade. She holds A South Florida native, month; our water rates are only a fraction of what some
both Bachelors and Master’s attorney, mediator, and nearby cities charge.
Degrees in Hospitality & small business owner, This work on S.W. 12th Avenue, in the Boca Square
Tourism Management. As Scott and his wife Bella neighborhood was completed in time for the opening
owner of AWAY Travel in Boca live in Broken Sound with last August of the new Addison Mizner School. 2021
Raton, Jessica and staff bring their two young children. was the second of three straight years that we will see a
25 years of personal travel new, state-of-the-art public school added to Boca Raton.
experience to an exclusive Last month, I spoke We appreciate our strong partnership with the school
clientele looking for luxury of how hustle helped district and Board Chair Frank Barbieri, and it was this
travel planning. Ready for your own journey to begin? us bring business and partnership that takes us to our next topic, schools.
amenities to Boca Raton, including the new Brightline Progress continues on the brand-new Blue Lake
station slated to open in the fall in Downtown Boca Elementary, which will be located off Military Trail.
Raton. Brightline is just one of our many investments For the past two years, this site was used as a temporary
to address traffic and build infrastructure for roads, school while both Addison Mizner and Verde K-8 were
utilities, schools and more. under construction. In August, it will open as the first
Newspaper articles from the 1960s talk about a additional public school in Boca Raton in nearly two
traffic problem in Boca Raton, so that has long been decades. How did we get here? Again, it comes back
a concern. To address it, we are constantly upgrading to hustle and partnership.
our technology to better time our traffic lights and, Boca Raton was already ahead of all other cities
unlike other cities, have synchronized control of all in Palm Beach County in getting two of the first
intersections. The North Federal Highway corridor has seven schools to be rebuilt with sales surtax funds.
historically lagged other areas because of limited road This school was originally planned to go elsewhere.
connections. When that site fell through, we moved quickly to
I am pleased that we are in planning stages to donate 15 acres to bring the new school to our city.
connect Clint Moore Road across the railroad tracks to We got this new campus only because we seized this
Jeffery Street within the next few years. We have only a opportunity, becoming the first city in at least 30 years
Destination: Malta few options to link major roadways and this connection to do so. After our initiative, years of planning and
To: Luxury Travelers will be a major improvement. We have also invested in much collaboration, we look forward to the opening
in August. Our creative partnership with the district
more options for bicyclists and pedestrians. This year,
we will begin work on connecting our award-winning will add nearly 1,200 student seats, serving both the
Pack Your Bags: Have you ever wanted to go to a El Rio Trail with the expanded multiuse path along many families in Boca Raton and creating space for
place that’s rarely on someone’s radar? A place where Palmetto Park Road. more new students as more people move here.
there aren’t hordes of tourists? A place you can relax For many governments, from the federal level The investments in infrastructure both help us
and feel you are one of the local inhabitants? Well, Malta to nearby cities, one of their biggest problems is continue to deliver outstanding services and also help
should be on your travel bucket list next. infrastructure: failing roads, bursting pipes and other our bottom line. Boca Raton again has one of the
This tiny nation has not been on many cruise ships’ issues. We have prevented countless problems by lowest tax rates of any full-service city in Florida. And
ports-of-call because of its location. Very few even investing in these crucial assets year after year. In when you layer in the additional costs, like the water
make the flight into this island just south of Sicily’s fact, we are in the midst of a multiyear, half-billion- fees that are much higher in other cities, we see how
coastline. But in reality, many of you might have visited dollar campaign to upgrade our roads, sidewalks and much more efficiently we serve our residents–with the
this island virtually. For decades, Hollywood celebrities network of underground utilities, as part of the city’s higher level of service we expect for our city. You can
have appeared in various movies depicting this quaint and Innovative Sustainable Infrastructure Program. see some great slides showing these savings, and other
historical land in films. Yes, even James Bond in 1977’s The innovation comes from using advanced topics, as part of the recent State of the City address
film The Spy That Loved Me, visited the city of Valletta, sensors to detect problems and prioritize areas to at myboca.us/soc.
Malta. Also, episodes of The Game of Thrones were shot be replaced. Boca Square is only one of more than Please email me at ssinger@myboca.us with any
here. And for good reasons! a dozen neighborhoods that have undergone major thoughts and stay connected with me on social media
Imagine an archipelago that resides in the center of the improvements in the last few years. The upgrades @ScottSingerUSA on all platforms. 
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