The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) has been recognized by the Florida Redevelopment Association (FRA) for outstanding redevelopment achievements in the Transportation/Transit Enhancements Category. The FRA presents awards annually to projects that exhibit best practices in Florida redevelopment over the past year.
This year, the Delray Beach CRA and the City of Delray Beach were honored for the US-1/Federal Highway Beautification Project. The former Delray US-1/Federal Highway corridors, in stark contrast with other downtown streets, had narrow sidewalks and minimal landscaping, which promoted high speeds, leading to triple the statewide crash rate within the main commercial core. Through the US-1/Federal Highway Beautification Project, the Delray CRA was able to reconfigure the existing roadway to reduce one travel lane in each direction to accommodate on-street parking, a bike lane, and wider landscaped sidewalks.