WEST PALM BEACH —
From the world’s tallest building to a high-end medical campus, a digital animation studio and a financial tower of undulating glass topped with a spire, the site at the confluence of Okeechobee Boulevard and Dixie Highway has stirred developers’ imaginations with concepts ambitious and unusual.
But for all the prominence of these 2.4 acres on the gateway to downtown and Palm Beach, the only structure to grace the site in two decades has been the most primitive form of architecture there is — a tent. Artists’ renderings have bought the dust. Nothing inhabits the city-owned Tent Site but a level stretch of weedy gravel that serves for overflow parking and for an annual art and antique show on a three-year lease.