DEVELOPER DOWNSIZES PLAN FOR GARDENS SITE

Harbourside builder proposes 70 condos, not 88, on Intracoastal.

PALM BEACH GARDENS — The developer of the former Panama Hattie’s restaurant and rum bar wants to scale back plans for 88 luxury condos along the Intracoastal Waterway.

Allied Capital & Development of South Florida — also the developer of Harbourside Place in Jupiter — first received county approval for the luxury, boutique-style condominiums at the southwest corner of PGA Boulevard and Ellison Wilson Road three years ago. Plans also call for a private marina with 23 boat slips.

Now, the company wants to reduce the project to 70 condos, according to a notice for a July 9 public hearing. Instead of a sixstory tower, the units would be spread across four buildings. The new, preliminary plan shows two two- or three-story buildings along the Intracoastal and two six-story buildings in the interior of the development, according to the public meeting notice. Parking will be above and below grade.

Allied Capital & Development did not immediately return a phone message or email.

The developer also wants to rezone about an acre of submerged property along the Intracoastal and add it to the roughly 8-acre planned development.

The current plan is already a scaled-back version of a hotel, condo, retail and restaurant complex once envisioned for the site. The property has sat vacant since Panama Hattie’s Sea Food House and adjacent Rum Bar closed in 2014 and were subsequently demolished.

The Palm Beach County Zoning Commission will hear the newest proposal at 9 a.m. July 9 and make a recommendation to county commissioners. The County Commission, which has authority over the property, will consider the change at 9:30 a.m. July 26.