Page 8 - Boca Exposure - January '23

Page 8, Boca Exposure
Mayor’s Update:

Banner Day For Boca Raton And A Look Ahead To 2023

Scott Singer is the 35th
Mayor of Boca Raton.
A South Florida native,
attorney, mediator and
small business owner, Scott
and his wife, Bella, live in
Broken Sound with their two
young children.
Dec. 20, 2022 will go
down as an historic day for
Boca Raton. The eyes of
South Florida and football
fans across the nation were upon Boca Raton all that day
with both the opening of the much-heralded Brightline
high-speed rail station and the ninth annual Boca Raton Brightline has brought high-speed rail to Boca and did or expand corporate
Bowl college football game. so with high-speed construction, completing a 455-space headquarters here, and
parking garage and state-of-the-art 22,000-square-foot enjoyed a 10th straight
Medicare station in less than a year. It was a pleasure and honor to cut year without a property
tax rate increase, while
the ribbon and ride the first passenger train from Downtown
maintaining one of the
Boca Raton in 54 years, since the old F.E.C. railway station,
now a museum, closed in 1968. When I successfully pitched lowest tax rates of any
full-service city. On a
the idea of a station in Boca Raton to Brightline executives in
open enrollMent 2019, I said that we were a separate market from their West less heralded note, also
Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale stations. The early returns
on Dec. 20, the final
are proving the concept, as the station was crowded for the
upcoming term became
first pre-dawn trains on Wednesday. city council seat for the
for 2023 that will be a boon to businesses, too. It allows us residents a local businessman
Brightline is a high-speed premium offering for residents
filled. Marc Wigder,

to be connected to a major transportation network that also
and attorney who lives
runs to Aventura and Miami and, coming in early 2023,
Club, also earned election without opposition when another
Orlando. Our businesses, shops, restaurants and cultural in Woodfield Country
cHecK For attractions will be able to draw employees, customers and candidate withdrew from the race. As with new council
patrons to Boca Raton from across South Florida. Brlghtline
member Fran Nachlas and all of my colleagues, I look forward
eXcItInG projects more than $11 million in economic impact to our to working with him.

The coming March 14 city election will still occur with
local businesses, and that number may be low. Check it out
a proposal to standardize the length of city council terms
for yourself at gobrightline.com.
Later on Dec. 20, our city had millions of eyes on us before the voters. Our current three-year election cycle
as a nationwide TV audience saw our city in primetime on results in elections four out of five years, and is an outlier as
neW PLanS ESPN, as FAU Stadium hosted the Boca Raton Bowl. This every other Florida city in the top 25 in population has four-
and contest featured one of the premier matchups as the MAC year terms, which are also common for our other local and
champion Toledo Rockets defeated the independent school
county offices. In next month’s column, I plan to share more
about this proposal and how it can help keep our elections
with the most wins, the Liberty Flames, in a close contest,
aLL neW 21-19. The closeness of the game helped with ratings. nonpartisan and reduce special-interest influence.
Temperatures in both schools’ home cities was 31 degrees

Until then, I remain very grateful for the many successes
at kickoff, as it was chilly across most of the nation, so our
we’ve had to close out 2022 and am excited at the prospects
BeneFItS 74 degrees presented another reminder as to why companies of what 2023 will bring. As always, I am so thankful for the
should bring their businesses to Boca Raton. In addition to
opportunity to live in Boca Raton and serve the people of this
the thousands of visitors to our area, the game has additional
great city. You can share any thoughts you have at ssinger@
YoU are economic development impacts from the frequent mentions myboca.com, and stay connected on Facebook, Twitter, and
Instagram at @scottsingerusa. As always, I’m grateful to
in the weeks leading up to the game and the many viewers.
These two events capped a busy year in which we opened
serve the people of Boca Raton! Wishing you and yours a

entItLed to or renovated several parks, saw many companies relocate safe, happy, and healthy new year!
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