Developers are ‘recycling’ properties west of Boynton

As larger tracts become more rare, developers turn to other parcels.

BOYNTON BEACH — As considerable pieces of vacant land west of Boynton Beach are quickly disappearing, developers are doing what they can to still have their hands in modernizing the area.

Residents will see developers buying properties within plazas for the lone car wash, gas station or convenience store. And they’ll be recycling properties — what once was farmland or a golf course could be lined up for homes.

“The recycling of real estate is considered a major direction for current development trends,” resident Steve Oseroff said.

More than 25 projects have come through the files of Palm Beach County planners the past t wo years. Projec ts extensive and small have been approved or withdrawn.

But in many cases, the trend is focusing on the “infill” property — a smaller in size vacant piece of land in a developed area or an already developed piece of land that will be recycled into something else.

In Jupiter, the former Whitehaven mobile home park on Military Trail across from the Jupiter Post Office is now Culver’s Custard and the Barcelona apart- ments. It’s also happening at the former Suni Sands mobile home park on the Jupiter Inlet and the Bell’s Mobile Home Park on Alternate A1A.

In Boca Raton, the 64,000-squarefoot Park Place shopping center on Military Trail, south of Clint Moore

PHOTOS BY ALEXANDRA SELTZER / THE PALM BEACH POST In the next several years, The Falls Club of the Palm Beaches at Hypoluxo and Jog roads, which includes a golf course, likely will be recycled to make room for homes.

This former restaurant site in the Boynton West Shopping Center could become a 7-Eleven convenience store. There is some debate as to how late the store would be allowed to sell alcohol.