PALM BEACH GARDENS
1. Western growth: Thousands of new homes, stores and restaurants will transform the rural feel of central-western Palm Beach County, including the west edge of Palm Beach Gardens.
Avenir, a 3,250-home development with another 2 million square feet of office and commercial space, will rise on Northlake Boulevard over the next 30 years on property that’s used as a cattle farm.
Then there’s the future Ancient Tree development of 97 single-family homes between Avenir and the city’s Sandhill Crane Golf Club. And like it or not, Palm Beach Gardens residents will be dealing with traffic from the 4,500 homes in the new city of Westlake on the former Callery-Judge Citrus Grove and GL Homes’ Indian Trails Grove project west of the Acreage.
2. New golf and tennis clubs: In addition to close to $200 million of new clubhouse construction and renovation at the private clubs in northern Palm Beach County, Palm Beach Gardens will get its own new, $4.6 million clubhouse at the public Sandhill Crane Golf Club on Northlake Boulevard. The new club will have event space for 200 to 220 people, especially useful for residents who don’t have access to the clubhouses that are behind a gate.
The Palm Beach Gardens Tennis Center is also due for a $3.5 million upgrade, including a new, 10,000-square-foot, two-story clubhouse.