Historic Preservation Board - Regular Meeting

Alright. Good evening. I'd like to call to order this, city of Delray Beach historic preservation board meeting on 04/15/2026. Can you please call the roll?

Peter Dwyer?

Here.

Jake Eliopoulos? Here. Richard Castor is absent. Chris Kabasis?

Here.

Benjamin Baffer?

Here.

Carol Perez? Here. John Miller?

Here. Alright. Any changes to the agenda tonight? No. No? Okay. Can we get somebody to move approval of the agenda?

I move approval of the agenda.

Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Motion carries. All right. We have some minutes here from 03/04/2026. Anybody have any

comments or move approval? I move to approve.

I'll second. Okay. Approval second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Swear do we need to swear in if we don't have any quasi judicial?

Just swear in case or yeah. Yes.

Just in case? Okay.

Public comment.

Alright. Public comment. Any member of the public who, may speak tonight, if you wanna stand up and be sworn in.

By the authority vested in me as the notary of the state of Florida, do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Seeing probably no comments from the public, but if you have anything to say that's not on the agenda tonight, now is your opportunity. Seeing none, moving on. Alright, presentations. Michelle?

Good evening. Thank you all for being here. Michelle Hoyland, Principal Planner for the Record. So we are here tonight for the award deliberations for historic preservation board award of our applicants and property owners who have completed projects within the city of Delray Beach historic districts. So as we are in about to approach May, which is National Historic Preservation Month, this is with the National Trust, and this is in also from your backup tonight in the memo.

But each year, local preservation groups and preservationists, cities, historical boards, businesses, civic organizations all come together to celebrate across the country. Events that are promoted like we're doing with this event tonight and some other different types of events, something you might wanna look into on the Internet to see if if there are events across the state. If you happen to be traveling in the next couple of months, take a look and see what's available across the country. But we're celebrating historic places, heritage tourism, and projects that demonstrate a social and economic benefit to preservation. This program began in 1973 as a week.

And in 2005 is it was extended by the National Trust to a whole month of celebrations. So tonight, you know, we're looking at our local projects. On a broader scale, it's important to note that we are about in the two hundred and fiftieth year of the state of Florida. So there's also a celebration I'm sorry, of the declaration of independence. So there is a celebration occurring throughout the state.

You might notice different things when you're traveling. I just came back from traveling to Orlando and I saw at our rest stops, there's little books there that talk about all the different counties in the state and their historic projects or important projects to those counties and cities in our state. The National Trust is indicating or has designated this month as promised to people in this country for that independence and that all people are created equal. So you'll see some some icons throughout the presentation that are referencing iHeart Saving Places, all people are created equal. And it's important to the preservationists, including yourselves, to these places that we ensure that they remain preserved for those in the future to appreciate.

Oh, I'm going backwards. So tonight, we had sent out nomination ballot for you to preview, take a look, potentially go drive by some of these projects in six different award categories. So it's one of our heavier years. I would like to note that one of the categories is adjusting slightly, which is commercial contributing. It's commercial projects period because we have a mix of contributing and non contributing in that category.

Both you'll see when we get to it both projects were pretty equally matched in their improvements. So I'm gonna jump right in. So this first category is residential contributing. This is for additions and rehabilitation projects, and we have three, four, four potential projects. So we've got and I'm going to go item by item. Any questions you have along the way, please stop me. It's a conversation. So you'll see the first is 302 Northeast 7th Avenue. I will show you additional pictures here. That one's known as the Hartman Heart the Hartman House.

It's up in the Palm Trail area, and it's individually designated. The next is 131 Southeast 7th Avenue, which is in the Marina Historic District. This project is a joint project. So while it's a duplex with two individual owners, it's being considered as one project. So there's a north unit and a south unit.

This is 1003 Nassau Street and 229 Venetian Drive. And then we have 108 Northwest 4th Avenue, which is West Settlers. The previous project's in Nassau Park Historic District. This one here is in West Settlers. So the Hartman house is about a third of an acre. It's on the Northwest corner of Northeast 7th Ave and Northeast 3rd Street. It contains a two story home in the frame vernacular style. It has a stucco exterior. This structure was built in 1923. It also has a detached but connected by a breezeway secondary structure in the rear, which is here in that picture.

You can see with the porthole window. That is a newer structure to the site. This was listed to the local register in 2005. It was occupied by, Gustave and Ione Hartman from 1923 to 1971. These owners came through for this addition that you could see with the picture window.

It's 236 square foot, one story addition that was added to the north side of the structure. And it sits in a courtyard where a pool is it overlooks their swimming pool and what they call the green. They refer to that as green room because it overlooks the green on the property. Here's another view of that small addition. This next one is 131 Southeast 7th Avenue in the Marina Historic District.

Oh, I I failed to state. The previous owners or the owners for this previous project here are Benita and Jordan Goldstein. This is a before of 131 Southeast 7th Avenue. Also to note, all of our projects have had COs. So that's one of our thresholds is it has to be a completed project.

So they span a variety of eras almost given the timing of COVID and then the, you know, recovery of COVID. Some of these projects were approved during COVID, completed during COVID, up through to current day. So 131 Southeast 7th Avenue is owned by Robert and Stephanie Marchand. It's a point one six acre site on the East Side of Southeast 7th Avenue. This this property is a one story bungalow.

You could see it has a front porch facing 7th. It was built in 1925. It is obviously classified as contributing. All of these are in this category to the district. A 1925 garage that's in the rear of the property went on underwent renovations.

They rehabilitated the structure in the rear. This is before this is the best after we could get. It's not quite a true after, but you could see the garages in its its initial size here with a more historic door and window brought back. So they also did an extensive stucco repair on the exterior of this building. Contractor took really great care having staff come out, visit the site, look at the stucco patterns to ensure that there was consistency with the historic stucco pattern.

And again, some of these are appear in progress. It's hard for us sometimes to go on-site if an owner is out of the country or not around. We can't get in touch with them and wanna make sure we have access to the site. So some of the pictures are a little bit bit older. Is it all blue now? It is. Yeah. Okay. So our next project, again, is that combined structures, the duplex. We've got two owners here.

1003 Nassau Street used to be known as 231 Venetian, and that faces Nassau, where the other unit faces Venetian at 229. So John and Eleanor Beckworth are the owners of 1003 Nassau Street, and Mark and Louise Holden own the unit facing Venetian. So these owners came in in proximity very close to each other at the time that this was being done. The south unit came through first and then the owners in the north unit sold and the new owners came in to do theirs at the same time. So it was really good timing for the overall site.

This project underwent exterior renovation, the addition of a pool, the addition of a porch, a rear garage in the back of the site, and some bringing back some of the historic integrity that existed here. So we're just going through before and afters here. They did quite a great job, I think, with their landscaping across both sides of the property, Added the fence here. This is the garage in progress, so we wanted to make sure you could see where this was tucked in. It's kind of tucked in in the back of the site, and that's what the garage looks like today.

This is the area where the swimming pool is now located. It was a front front yard. They did, I think, have some variances to facilitate that pool, which turned out quite nice with their landscaping and their restoration of their front porch connecting to this. It's I was out there this week. It's turned out really nice.

Small details include, again, that fence, wood ceilings, wood tongue and groove ceilings. And now this is the north structure that faces Venetian, and so we see here a garage, and that garage was enclosed for additional living space. So you can see the front looks a little bit different. Some of these pictures, it's it was really hard for me to even understand that that was a garage, and now it's this. It's really looks so much different when you're out there.

But here you can also see they added a pergola on the front front porch. This is a wood pergola, paver bricks, windows. They also had a small improvement to the rear of the site, including this area here where you can see new doors were added, new patio space. I wish I had the completed picture of the pool. I didn't want to put the in progress picture of the pool but there's also a brand new pool in this backyard as well.

And then this is their front view looking at the property from Venetian and they did just a really nice job with very simple detailing maintaining the wall that was there and adding gates. I believe they maintained these bougainvillea but do that. Then we're And 1949. To The previous owner had come through for a renovation, very minor facade updates and a minor addition in the back. There were some delays due to conflict with the contractor.

So the house sat like this, I want to say for about seven years. Unfortunately, the owner was not able to complete the project due to that conflict ended up selling the home. So the new owners came in, reimagined the site which is a very large lot for West Settlers Historic District. They did include an addition in the rear. You might remember they came before the board asking not to put the porch railings on this one, and I think it turned out really nice with their landscaping.

This is looking at it from the effectively southeast corner of the property. You could see here shutters that fit the windows as they should. They maintain that medallion in the gable, the chimney feature as well with the chimney cap. Cap. This is the rear of the property facing west and this is what it looks like now. So there's that larger addition, swimming pool and backyard improvement. So those are the candidates in the first category and I can go back if you want to deliberate and discuss. You can go back and look at any pictures you have, questions, let me know.

I have thoughts but does anybody else? I mean just first glance and I've looked through it a little bit. I like the 108 Northwest Forth the last one simply because this house could have easily come down and not been preserved. The other ones I think were well maintained and well taken care of over the years. I love the Goldsteins, I love the Hartman House. And it's an appropriate addition in the rear. I think they did a fabulous job. But just in terms of overall preservation efforts, I think, in my mind, this one, I would vote for.

For me, it's a toss-up between this one and the 1003 Nassau Street, the duplex. So I think that one's pretty interesting. You don't really see duplexes too much in

the

historic areas. So it's two I guess two owners are gonna win. It's a two for one. And they so it was double the effort, and I think the outcome was pretty amazing. They kept the historical integrity. They added to it with great landscaping landscaping or, you know, you know, lushing it up. So I'm I'm torn between these two. I can go either way.

Yeah. Yeah. They all did great.

Anybody else? Michelle, did one zero eight did they do that was that was a rehabilitation?

And addition. Yes. And addition?

Yes. Where was the addition?

In the rear. We can go slide through kinda quickly. So here you can see the rear. Mhmm. And that is the Okay. Addition. So what you see peeking out on the very far left is the plane of the original house. So you see the area where the French doors are open, that is new as well as the area with the gable roof to the right.

Well, I think they did an excellent job there. I also I also think the duplex was a very great project with the two owners involved. And, you know, the addition was no small addition either. And I think they they paid attention to the historic character and did a phenomenal job with not imposing that that addition onto the street.

That one, the Nassau and Venetian, is that a Sam O'Grinn Junior? I believe it is. Okay.

The only issue is that generator.

Right? I was gonna ask.

Don't that.

I don't remember that generator on the approval.

Where is that?

In the front yard Manish.

The main picture on our

on Nassau.

In the street?

Yeah. It's in the street. It looks

Wasn't on your presentation. It was in the in the It's in the ballot. Yeah. Backup packet.

That's funny.

Is it I'm probably standing over it. Right? You're probably standing right

No, looks like it's not there anymore. Oh

yeah, no, was up by the fence.

So if that's a more recent photo than what's in our Well, packet

that was temporary?

I took this photo this week, like two days ago.

So the fence was moved. No. This is a different view. This is gotta be a different view.

It's not Can

I come look at your ballot? I don't have it with me.

Yeah. We could turn. So the the brickwork has changed.

It's a generator. Yeah. It's right there. That was that wasn't it wasn't installed yet.

Oh. It

was there to be installed.

So they actually they did move to the side. Amazon dropped

They it widened the driveway as well.

Driveway's different too because this one's got the curb.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. We only have a curve on the previous.

Yeah. We were the week we were the two weeks we were preparing the packet, it rained and rained and rained. So we weren't able to go out and get pictures with this beautiful blue sky. So we were using some older pictures for the ballot. That's why that was there. Yeah. That wouldn't have been allowed to be there. No way.

They took out that Schefflera. So I'm happy with that.

Were there any challenges on this one that you're aware of? Like the other one that had the seven years of

Yeah. So

the owners of this unit, both owners were different when we initially started working on this project. And they didn't get along, the two owners. The north unit owner, I think, removed a tree, and there was a claim by this unit owner that while they were out of town and that tree was removed, that their water line was broken and they were faced with a $6,000 water bill. So they were arguing. The other thing that happened with this one is the I believe the approval the original approval included a second story that they were coming or they were applying for above the garage.

And we were really trying to help them through the process, but the way that was designed was not really streamlined for the the structure, then the adjacent neighbor didn't want them looking down. So there was a push and pull on the design. These owners decided to sell and they left. Then the owners next door decided to sell and they left. So when the two new owners came in, it was like perfect harmony between them.

They get along. They worked together together to come up with a plan for how they could each do some improvements to their structure without fully impacting each other, which is really rare that we get that situation, you know, coming through. So, I mean, I think the detailing, while maybe the additions on these weren't quite as large as the addition on the Northwest 4th Avenue project, the fact that they were able to compromise and work together was made our lives a lot easier and theirs. So, yeah, this was a multiyear project as well. This began in, I wanna say, five or six years ago.

And it seems like a cohesive design. Right? Each side is balanced. It doesn't look like two No. Separate places.

And that was something we really struggled with with the old owners because what you don't see here let me see if I have a picture of it. So you can see how there's this porch. Their original the original owners wanted to come through and do a porch that extended further out in to the front yard. These owners did not. They wanted to maintain the front facade and and make sure that they incorporated elements that would have been original to the building.

So there were some later you can see these columns here that were suspected to be later additions. Kind of got that Corinthian look which wouldn't have been utilized at this time period. So they went to a more original appearance. Where the other owners incorporated the wood pergola and their front porch. Yeah.

For us I would say both of these projects were all of these in this category were fairly equal. If we go back and look at this one, there was a lot of push and pull happening with this because they wanted to demolish this garage. And so we worked with them to not do that and really, you know, they had some damage issues that they were dealing with, but the architect really saw the value of what we were trying to accomplish here which was maintain that original garage. And then these owners here had a ton of space. They could have done a much bigger addition than they did.

And they came in with a very modest small addition. And the and the scope is similar if you look at the square footages on all of these. So

yeah.

Definitely was hard for us

too. Mhmm. Alright.

Does anybody else have any other comments? We wanna just take a straw poll here?

Or Well, I think one zero eight checks all the boxes. I mean, it really is a standout for me.

Yeah. No. I I agree with that one zero eight for for the most part because that resource would have been lost. I mean, they had these other houses would have survived. Those were kind of upgrade, but this would have been gone if this owner hadn't done what they'd done.

Jake? Yeah. I'm also I mean, coming to the meeting, I was definitely leaning towards the one on Nassau Street. But then after the additional photos and seeing what 108 was in its previous condition, it was you definitely think that most people would wanna demo the building and what they did with it. It's really nice. The one on Nassau Street, it has amazing detail, and it turned out great, but I'm leaning towards 108.

So we just make motion on this, or how does this

Yeah. I have a motion for you. Okay. But a matter of note, these are all contributors. So the idea of demolition would have been a harder, if not impossible, road to go through to tear a contributor down.

With that said, in the time frame when this was sitting unoccupied, the previous owner did struggle with people entering the property. And so things can happen, you know, where you lose a resource because of neglect. It's not that they were neglecting but the, you know, people entering the property. So those are that was probably more of a threat in our eyes to see that the property was unoccupied than it was to see that or to think that it would get demolished.

Well, it was it was obviously not maintained in any

meaningful way.

This woman that used to own it was 90 years old, a member of the, you know, West Settlers Historic District for a long time. She was a school school crossing guard, and this was a second home for her. So she was going to utilize it for income producing. We were really excited when she came through and equally just equally excited as we were disappointed to see she end up having to sell it. It was really unfortunate.

Lost the opportunity for true generational wealth when she had to walk away from this property. But the new owners, we explained all of that to them as well so they knew what had happened with this site, and, you know, they took care. It has been sold since they have did their renovation. It's been sold twice, actually. Yeah.

It was it was I think it was pretty clear it was an investment property when they did it. Interesting. Yeah.

But the the owners of the duplex, they're living there.

Yeah.

Should we take that into consideration?

I mean, you can take anything you want into consideration.

I But how do how do you consider it? Because I I I would, you know, see if somebody went and did that much care for a rental property. Right? That, you know, it's it's one thing to Mhmm. To do a a rule of thoughtful and proper restoration because you're going to live there. But if I'm renovating for a for a rental property, I I don't think I'd be inclined to, you know, to put that much care and attention into into the project.

Mhmm. Yeah. Good point.

That's what we try to do is help inspire people to

do that. Yeah. Yeah. But

it's it's Not everybody has.

It's a harder sell with the with the project that you're gonna flip or or rent.

It can be harder for us. Yes.

We don't. Mind teeing up that motion? Absolutely. Saw it there earlier. If anybody wants to take a stab.

K. I'll make a motion to approve 108 Northwest 4th Avenue West Settlers Historic District as the winner of the 2026 Historic Preservation Board Award for the category of residential contributing additions and rehabilitation.

Second.

Motion and a second. Should we call the roll on this one or

I'd let's let's do that.

Let's call the roll.

Peter Dwyer? Yes. Jake Eliopoulos?

Yes.

Richard Kasser is absent. Chris Kabasis?

Yes.

Benjamin Baffer?

Yes. Creole

Perez? Yes. John Miller?

Yes. Okay. Alright.

One down. Five to go. Think it's really a great testament to us that or as a board, you, staff, the city, all that are involved that we have this many completed projects. We're really seeing the districts come along here. Okay. So this category is residential contributing exterior alterations. So we have two. One is in Delaeda Park at 503 Northeast 2nd Avenue. This is owned by Jeff and Mindy Booster. And the other other is 121 To 125 Northwest 3rd Avenue in West Settlers Historic District, and each have some unique history that we'll review.

So first here, we have an original photo. This was quite a bit of research I had done on this. The structure is a streamlined moderne. It's our only true streamlined moderne in the Delaida Park Historic District. It was built in 1947. I remember in that research coming across postcards from the owners at the time who were sending postcards to families saying come to Florida. It's beautiful. It's kind of neat. We don't usually get to see that kind of history in the building records. But this was originally joined on Lots 3 And 4.

You're going to see in a different category the portion of the lot that was removed in the back where a new house was built. But Jeff was Jeff and Mindy Wooster did this through the administrative review process, and they this is what it looked like when they purchased the home. It was probably a little more overgrown than this when they got it. This is what it looked like when they were done. So they brought back at our great urging that porthole window, once they found out it was there, they wanted to

bring it

back. Your If rear is so corner windows, exterior alteration, cross shelter so at least they lose that not forming you. That was her goal. So she has Bluebird Hair Salon here. This is the structure in the rear.

Before, we didn't have the best after picture, so I didn't show it, but we have a side after. This is the before as well. And you could see it's been repaired, cleaned up around the site. They do, in addition to her business at the hair salon, she rents this out as a a rental. This structure in the back is a guest cottage with an attached garage. This structure was built I think that's why I haven't said the date. I I don't know that we wrote that down. I apologize. But it is a contributing structure, structure. All of these are.

And so you can see she went through replaced windows, the garage door. It is used for garage purposes, not livable square footage, although they are using it like a rec space. They added a pool here as well. And this is off in the distance is the City Hall Parking Lot. So this is right behind City Hall here. So those are our two projects for residential contributing exterior alterations.

This has three different addresses?

It's two, technically. It's two? It's the main house with its guest cottage and then the beauty salon. Is it different lots or it's on a lot but with different addresses? It's all together. There's a a history on it about that where there were two separate lots that were joined at one point in time.

And these projects were done at the same time?

Yes. Administratively. Mhmm. These were through the administrative approval process. So this is really kind of a testament to what you can do through permit even. You know, minor COA and permit revisions. So we really try to tell people you don't always have to go through the board review to make minor changes when they're picking minor colors, you know, neutral colors. It's a like for like window repair, roof repair or replacement, swimming pool. These are the types of things that you can go through the staff review process for.

Any thoughts? Yeah. They're great projects. Yeah. I agree. One has three times the amount of of work. Right? But the what is it? The Streamline Modern? Is that what you call

The Streamline Modern. Yeah.

Modern. That one is just fantastic. The the way they brought it back and they kept the character. It's a unique architectural house in the in the neighborhood, probably in Delray also. There's probably not too many of those. They did everything right, I believe, with the the stripped driveway pads, the just the the way they restored the the old look of it. This is like a picture perfect project. I lean towards this one.

And remember, this one had the extra lot that was paired off. Mhmm. And they built a new house on the adjacent lot. Same owner, mister Wooster, which you'll see later. Yeah.

I I I'm leaning towards Northeast 2nd, the 503, just simply because of the uniqueness of it. You know, as you say, it's the only example of it that we have. I thought they did a great job on it. It's still a very modest home. They, you know, certainly could have tried to do more, but they needed that lot next door.

I think it looks fabulous. Think they're both great. I would probably vote for this one. Anyone else?

Yeah. Biased because I see this house every day. It's in my neighborhood and it's a great job. I know Jeff and Mindy. They did a fantastic job. And the other one is well done as well but I have to keep my votes close to home.

Jake? I definitely think five zero three, it turned out amazing. They both did. And you said the they brought the the window, the circular window back after seeing the original photo?

Mhmm. Yeah. So you can see in this image here that the window's not there, and the gate is closed. You can kinda see the gate. Yeah. So they wanted to really highlight that gate by placing it in the open position. See the gate.

That place Oh, that

thing really That slides over? Oh, I see.

It it closes. Oh, I

see. Yeah.

I'm glad to know the history on that window because Kim and I discussed that maybe Jeff added it or Right. So

now you Yeah.

This that

was where we got to see it.

Very cool. That's awesome. Carol?

I I agree with everybody. I I think both projects are amazing and they did an excellent job. But, yeah, I lean towards five zero three.

You know, in both of these categories, the thing that really stands out to me is what a big difference the landscaping makes. Yeah. You know? And Chris

and Carol's credit, but We tell people that all the time. No.

But but we really Yeah. I mean yeah. Because we don't think about it when we're reviewing these. I mean, we have a landscape plan in the package, but it real I mean, it's it's huge. I mean,

it Mature trees too are

some of the

biggest adders. They add to the look of a property and the feeling of warmth and security. And there's just something about these large canopy trees that are so important. So to see lots that are just completely cleared to put a new house and they don't think about the trees that were there, it happens all the time. I know on Northeast 9th there's a huge ficus tree that maybe has come down already. Remember But Jim Chard would always talk about the trees.

And we do get to have a conversation with owners about this through the early stages of the process. And they always ask, do we have to bring landscaping forward? And we express that you don't have to but that there's great value in thinking it through ahead of time. You can see with this tree there was some trimming that happened that needed to be done. Just minor, very minor trimming. When you're out there and you see this tree, it's wider than a human around that one part of the trunk. It's it's very, very old tree.

Is that a fancy in it?

Yeah. Yep.

You have a healthy relationship

with Yep. Everybody does. Yeah.

Do too. My husband wants to

remove it.

But when they bloom, you're like, oh, I can't take it.

It looks horrible for nine months a year. Messy. And, yeah, you can't park the car in the driveway.

Yeah. Yeah. Alright. I'm gonna make a motion. Somebody? Mhmm. I think we have a consensus on this one, sounds like.

I'll do it. I move to make a motion to approve 503 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Del Ida Park Historic District as the winner of the 2026 Historic Preservation Board Award for the category of residential contributing exterior alterations.

I'll second.

Motion is second. Please call the roll.

Peter Dwyer?

Yes.

Gigi Ladopoulos?

Yes.

Richard Kasser is absent. Chris Kabasis?

Yes.

Benjamin Baffer?

Yes.

Carol Perez? Yes. John Miller?

Yes.

Okay. Ready? Go on to our next. So here we have residential non contributing. These are additions, new construction, and or rehabilitation. The two projects in this category are 209 Northeast 5th Street, also Jeff and Mindy Wooster, through RTG, their company, construction company. And then 18 Northeast 7th Street, which is also in Delaida Park. They're both Delaida Park Historic District. And this is Eric and Rosita Gilbert. So here we are with the east lot of the previous award winner.

They went through the process to do a plat exemption, to separate the lots from each other, and they took a little bit of space off of the Streamline Modern side to add to this lot so the lot could be a little bit bigger. Keeping in mind at one point they were considering a garage on the Streamline Modern, and they forego forwent that in the interim to get this through the review with the board. So here, I I don't know if any of you have driven driven by it and it's impressive, I think, the hard work that you as a board put in with this applicant. For those of you who were on the board at the time, this applicant came to the board three times which I think was hard on him, hard on us, hard on you. But I think it was worth the diligence of the board because the scale of this second story does appear when you're in the field as a low slung second story structure.

Sorry. I skipped a slide. So it is kind of peeking out over the front. The one story portion really is what's facing the street with that porch and the individual garages, the pergola over the garages, the use of the paper bricks. And here you can see a rear view with the swimming pool. When I saw these, I thought these were the renderings. Renderings. The pictures are so good.

They do a nice job.

They do a nice job. Yeah. But this is actually the the completed structure and the built environment. The architect was Richard Brummer. Some of you may remember he was with Richard Jones previously and then he went out on his own.

This was I think only the second project we had seen from him once he started his own practice. So, yeah, I mean, it it's I don't have a lot of befores because it's a vacant lot, but the completed project, when I when I first drove by it, I was kinda blown away about how how much better it was than what we first saw. Not that the first iteration wasn't great, it was just a little large for the the Delaida Park District. Okay. So next we have 18 Northeast 7th Street.

And so well, you know, each of these all these projects have a little bit of a push and pull that happens with the applicants. These applicants wanted to completely change the architectural style of the building. And we had quite a few conversations enriching, trying to encourage because

this is

on the cusp of becoming a contributor. So it qualifies as a contributor next resource survey where we update all of our districts. This would come in as a contributor. So we really wanted to make sure that the applicant and the board understood that and what the benefits of that could be tax incentives, all kinds of different things over the long term. So they embraced that and this is their completed project incorporating the use of brick.

At one point, they had like a flagstone facade, which I think was really beautiful but not really characteristic of the district. So they went with that brick facade. They did enclose the garage. This was board approval. But the overall form and function of the building and its original characteristics are really still in place over what was there.

There is a large addition in the rear. So the reason why we're pairing this against the non contributing new construction is the improvements in the rear were quite substantial, and you can't even see that from the front of the house. So it's a testament to what you can do in historic adding on to property. Some people think you can't, and they really did a great job updating the structure and and making it larger for their their hopes in the future. So those are our two projects for this category, Residential non contributing. Chris?

Yep. Both great projects. 7th Street is really well done. The way that they articulated the front, it used to be just a flat roof, and they they brought it out a little bit and offered a little central entry feature, the way they enclosed the garage with the two single doors. But I remember I was on the board for 209 Northeast 5th, and I remember the back and forth.

And I I do think that is a great example of how the board can help these projects become a better project and how the applicants, if they're receptive like they were, can actually improve the project. I think one of the items was I think it was the the garages had to be behind the front door or vice versa. What what was that? I forget.

The plane was they moved it back a

little bit. Was there there was some movement there. They

set in the the second story. It was a straight vertical and they set it back from the 1st Floor, which I really like the way that turned out. They had a deck in the back on the 2nd Floor. They removed that. So there there's a lot of compromise both both ways on this. Mhmm.

And it turned out amazing. I think this is one of the best looking houses in the in the neighborhood. So that is my vote for 209.

So I'm biased biased for 7th Street because I remember I think it was when I was on the board previously when that one came through and I remember the effort kind of similar with you that we had to go through to kind of walk that line of of helping to guide the the applicant without designing from from the. I mean, that was really, you know, what was a big effort in to their credit hanging in there because that, you know, that that was also during a a period of time where I'm sure I'm sure they were considering why don't we just sell this house? Why don't we just sell this house big?

Demolish it. This was a risk for demolition. Yeah. And I think they brought that planter back.

The brick planter was was was big.

It was on an

old car. Old picture because I I I remember thinking this looks like the nineteen sixties house that I

It totally It looks like it should have been there from the first place. Yeah. Yeah. They

brought it back, I believe. If not, then

they acted. They they brought it back, but that was where they originally had, like, the the 2014 flagstone. Yeah. You know, that that dry stack, and we're like, no. No. No. No. Yeah. And you gotta go with the brick.

Yes.

Put in a mature gumbo as well. Mhmm.

Yeah. Two zero nine put in a mature live oak,

which is very which is

very nice. And they it's a tall one.

Oh, that's perfect. So that

that's taller than they needed to go.

Little silver button wood off to the side there. Mhmm.

Carol? Yeah. I think I'm I would lean towards 209 just because it's the architecturally, it's just a really beautiful building. I'm sure that the 7th Street did an amazing job also, but I I'm just leaning towards 209.

I'm in the same boat. I think well, from what it sounds like, it looks like a lot of work with you guys and whoever is living in 209, they cooperated a lot. It turned out great. They both look great. It's also it makes it difficult because the before, it's an empty lot. And then the after, it's a beautiful house. So deciding the criteria makes it tough, but I'm leaning towards 209.

It's a very narrow empty lot, and that's Mhmm. You know, the impressive part is they they squeezed it in there and it doesn't look out of proportion.

No. It looks great.

Pete, they're both in your hood. So

Yeah. They're both right nearby. They're great. It's a tough choice. I think that the 7th Street project probably required a great deal of creativity to get where they ended up. Like you said, an empty lock gives you a lot of flexibility even though it's narrow and great example of a new home. I'm torn.

Yeah, I could go either one. Whatever motion is made, I'm gonna support it. The the live oak, though, that they did plan it kinda looks like some of Gary Iliovius' renderings where he puts these massive trees to make the house look smaller. So seen that trick. But no, either either one are good. I remember I was on the board for the the two zero nine not the 18. So

I do think two zero nine is a testament to when there is an empty lot or there is new construction that it it is possible to have it fit the character of the street and the historic neighborhoods. And so sometimes, you know, designing from scratch is harder than when you have the constraints of of an existing house. Mhmm.

It didn't start that way though.

It didn't help. No. It didn't start that way.

I don't think it helped them that the two houses to the east

Jeff built those.

Jeff built. Yeah. And they were much smaller, a lot character. We talked through that with him. You know, why don't you just do do that? You know? And I think he had owners who were coming through for

this.

Well, the other two are on 50 foot lots. This one is about 62, I think. You can correct me.

I think you're I think you're right. The added of the five feet.

Yeah. The five feet allowed them to squeeze another garage in because the other two have single car garages.

And the other two, the garages are set back. Yeah.

Right? Set way back.

And Yeah. And the the second story is set back on those other two on one side, not the other. That's right.

They do seem they they fit together now. Yeah. They do.

Alright. Let's

make a motion. Mhmm.

I'll do it.

Chris, you're on a roll, man.

Yep. Chris,

you out. Oh.

I move oh, I I make a motion to approve 209 Northeast 5th Street Delaeda Park Historic District as the winner of the 2026 Historic Preservation Board Award for the category of residential non contributing additions, construction, and rehabilitation.

Is there a second? I'll second. Question and a second? Call the roll.

Peter Dwyer? Yes. Jake Iliopoulos? Yes. Richard Kasser is absent. Chris Cabasis? Yes. Benjamin Baffer?

Yes.

Carol Perez? Yes. John Miller?

Yes. Okay. We're ready?

Yes. Go for it.

Here we go for category four. So remember, we are calling this commercial, not contributing as your reports say. So both of these are also in Delaida Park Historic District. We have 403 North Swinton Avenue. Owners are Alex and Margo Platt.

This is a commercial office for Compass Realty for Margo and Alex. And then 111 Northeast 4th Street, which is the the first one's on the corner Of Swinton in Lake Ida. And the second one, 111 Northeast 4th Street, is on the corner of Seacrest or Northeast 2nd Avenue in Lake Ida, and that one's owned by John Fugo. That one's noncontributing. The 403 North Swinton is a contributor. So many of you will remember this was a dentist's office for years and years and years. I think all the way back to when I was a child, this has been a dentist's office.

Since the eighties. Yeah.

Interesting fact about structure when we were going through research with Alex Platt, we found that this was actually located over on Northeast 4th Avenue closer to Atlantic, and it was moved here. This is a wood frame structure, and we believe it had wood siding. But probably upon moving it, they they did a stucco exterior. I think that happened in the seventies perhaps. So this is both of these projects are also admin approvals as some of the other ones you'll see where they repainted, but they came before the board for their windows.

They were wanting to do no grids, and we needed the board to help weigh in on that. Otherwise, had they come through with the grids, it would have been straight to permit. So you can see here that oh, wait. The board also approved the roof, the metal roof. But you can see it's quite a transformation.

It's beautiful on this corner, really just as a gateway structure to Delaida Park. The landscaping again is gorgeous as Chris would say. The little fixtures, the black integrating with the black railings just really really pops nicely on the building. We worked with the owner and their sign contractor to do that sign. That was a bit of a stretch for me.

I almost brought that to the board, but they paired it back a little bit and placed it on a for you know, on a wall not as forward on the structure. But you can see new gutters, new windows, new doors, new landscaping. Really just turned out great. They repaved the parking lot here, some foundation plantings which make all the difference, softening the elevation of the building. Just little details little details that have turned out really, really nice.

So next, the other gateway piece, you know, as you're entering Lake or Delaeda Park from downtown as you come up north on second, This was all admin. These owners, we worked with not too much back and forth, a little bit on the windows because we were really wanting to ensure that they use the proper window colors. And here they look green, but they're actually more of that bronze color. I think what's really the big piece on this in addition building. To And see So windows, the we're painting, landscaping, new signage, cleaning up the the parking lot.

It's really turned out quite nice for that corner, bringing an older building up to modern day standards. So those are our two. This one was constructed in 1947, and the Alex Platt property, the pink property, was built in '19

I think 04/2003 gives me a bigger wow factor. But the landscape, we're starting to find out that's that has such a big impact on all of these. I didn't realize the one one one, that one elevation. That that that's a great shot. I haven't seen that part of it, but I'm still leaning towards 403.

Yeah. Those three cypress trees look great. Mhmm. They do a lot for the building.

What would you call the color for 403? White. Oh, pink. Pink. Is it pink or is it like a lilac?

It's a Oh, it's a pink. Straight up pink? It's close to Pepto Pink. Yeah. But

Yes. When it first went on, I was like

Legally Blonde.

Thought they were gonna do 50% of the pink. But no. The landscaping went in. The white, the black detailing really I think helped.

That bougainvillea on the side really looks good against the pink actually although half of his podocarpus have died.

I was driving

by there the other day.

That always happens with podocarpus. If they go they go.

You're not gonna save them.

You wouldn't think it, but they need a

lot of water. Right. At first.

Yeah. So they're not great plants, actually. I think 111 is a great cleanup, but 403 is sort of a complete transformation. It'll just feels like a new revived property. You know, the bold color of the house, I think it's it's a nice well, it's a it's a choice. The sign placement, I it works for a commercial building. It's it's unique and it it's a nice interesting spot. So I think the things that they've done for this one are a little bit more bolder and I I lean towards this one.

The standing seam to me with the color evokes more of a Caribbean feel. If it had the siding, I would say more. But with the stucco, you know, it's grown on me. So

Something to think about for future requests.

Carol? Pete?

Yeah. This was a 04/2003 was a big transformation, and I just love being on the corner. Think it is a nice little gateway into that neighborhood from Lake Ida. Yeah. I'm with 403.

Both of these are in my neighborhood again. So I think they're they're great examples. But I would lean to 403 just because of the transformation.

Ben, any comments? It's little gingerbread house.

Jake, wanna make a motion?

Why not? Oh, you want the motion? Okay.

Motion to approve 403 North Swinton Avenue, Old School Square Historic District as the winner of the 2026 Historic Preservation Board Award for the category of commercial exterior alterations in rehabilitation.

Second. Motion and a second. Please call the roll.

Peter Dwyer. Yes. G. Giliopoulos.

Yes.

Richard Castor is absent. Yes. Benjamin Baffer?

Yes.

Carol Perez?

Yes. John Miller?

Yes. Okay. Moving along fifth category, there are three nominees in this category. This is multifamily, residential, noncontributing for additions, new construction, or rehabilitation. So our first nominee is owned by the CRA at 98 Northwest 5th Avenue. Our second is Atlantic Grove Townhomes. This project was done by New Urban Communities. Tim Hernandez was the owner applicant on that. And then we have eleven eighty and eleven ninety Nassau Street, which is owned by

I remember

that one. Edward and Jane Graham. Oh, again, this is one of our duplex projects. So it's Edward and Jane Graham at 1180 and Mark Harrison at 1190. So first is the CRA building, and this is another project that was a great partnership, I think, between the city staff and the CRA doing education and awareness, I think, because there were some interesting features on this building.

So there's commercial on the Ground Floor and residential units upstairs. But the Ground Floor had this really unique car park. So you can kind of see it beyond these brick open brick wall features, you could actually pull in, drive in there, park your car, and then pull out. So that was added as new commercial space. And what we what resulted from that new commercial space were new retail, office, restaurant, you know, different kinds of uses that could be accommodated in there.

What else was added was an elevator, which you can kind of see in the center of the building with the elevator overrun to access the 2nd Floor where it's a coworking space up up top on the 2nd Floor. This property benefits from different code allowances in the CBD code, which, you know, you could come in with a restaurant here within the existing space without having to provide parking. There's things that are are designed to kind of spur development of the West Settlers Historic District. So I think the CRA did a great job capitalizing on that, and they have new tenants slated for this site. Some are already in.

But what we what we struggled with a bit on this is it was a potential contributor. So it's a non contributor, but it was on the cusp of becoming contributing. So we tried to encourage them to make changes that the changes that they made to it wouldn't affect that potential reclassification so so that that some of those things were very clear, utilitarian in nature with that elevator that was added. And then they had to, you know, update these stairs that were at both ends. You I know, think they really brought this building forward where you can still see some of the original form and function, but it has changed.

Whether or not we would actually classify this as contributing, I'm not sure. We would have to have a consultant engaged on that effort anyway. But, you know, here you can see the new sign, the Edmunds Bain building named for a member of the community. I just think it's it turned out really nicely here along 5th Avenue. They also you can see in the pictures, you see the sidewalk materials.

So this goes up and down Northwest 5th Avenue, and it's almost looks like a terrazzo look. They continued that on 5th as well. So next we have the Atlantic Grove townhouse project. So have any of you been to Zeri? Yes? Probably everybody. Best Thai food around. That is part of Atlantic Grove too. So all of that building that faces Atlantic Avenue and the 301 and the 401 Building is the commercial portion of Atlantic Grove. And then there's this piece here where the townhomes are that is part of the overall unified site plan.

These townhomes are in the West Settlers Historic District, but commercial portion of the property is not. As it's a unified site plan, historic reviews anything on this site. So they had been in I think there was a land swap that happened or something with the Mount Olive Church that there was a litigation on that occurred. And many years later, that was settled, and they came forward to fill in this portion of the site with two new townhome buildings. So this is what they came forward with.

It was a slight update to the paint color for the whole townhouse project, the whole thing. And then this being the new piece, there are slight differences. Very nuanced. If you look here, you can see on the left. They have that porthole window.

They have the roof feature over the entrances, but the new roofs have metal roof on them. There are varying balcony designs throughout the site. There was a streetscape now that they had to contend with per the CBD code that didn't exist previously, which, you know, designates designates what what the the organization of the curb, where the parked cars are parked, the signage portion of the right of way, and where the pedestrians circulate, the pedestrian clear zone. So it really had a slight adjustment in the way the site was designed. You can see here with some of the jogs that had to happen on the site.

So the shifts over time did present a new approach to the design for the overall site. But, yeah, this was I think a really great infill. And in the mix of this, they traded a piece of their property with Mount Olive. And if you're out there anytime this week, you'll see they're building out a parking lot behind Zeri. That was all part part of this at the same time.

I was wondering what that was.

Yeah. So What year was this completed?

Pre approvals go back a long time, Michelle, because I was these are, like, 2022 board I remember coming through.

Yeah. So this was final approval, I think, on this one was '21. Yeah. There was while they do go back a long time, sometimes the COs take a while.

98 Northwest 5th was Manny was the architect. Yes. Sinolowski.

Yep. Yeah. That it does take some time. Like I said, we want to make sure what we're bringing I think '98 was 2022, and then this one was 2021. It takes time to get those COs in hand, and they weren't ready last year for us to bring to you for '25. So they went on the list for this year. Are you ready? I'm gonna go on to our next.

I'd say both of these

and go process. You don't have to go up and come come back down. They ended up not being able to sell that workforce housing unit and had to purchase it out. That happened recently. But, yeah, just it it's hard sometimes when there's so many moving parts on these bigger projects. You ready for your next one? Mhmm. Okay. And so next, we had another interesting project. 1180 And 1190 Nassau Street.

For those of you who have heard us maybe talk about this through presentations, this site then these there's two duplex buildings. So there's four units on this site. This site and the development of these buildings on this site were the impetus behind Nassau Park Historic District becoming established because a house that was similar in style to what's across the street existed here and was demolished to make way for this. So the community came together and were involved and had a hand in creating the new historic district. So Nassau Park Historic District was also originally conceived in 1935.

Sam Augren has his fingerprints over many, many of the homes on this two block stretch of residential. This was the city's first subdivision east of the Intracoastal Waterway on the Barrier Island. So what these owners envisioned was an updating of the exterior of the structure, a little flex of their balconies on either side of the front there. It almost we have gone out and taken multiple pictures. It was really hard to get this to not look like a black and white photo.

The color scheme is very neutral. Here we are. We we went and got that blue sky yesterday. But you've got a board and batten siding on this with the horizontal railings. They also had some adjustments of the pools that are just over the fence here.

You can't really see in any of the photographs. But they moved away from that Mediterranean Spanish style architecture to a more modern transitional, or I think we called it masonry vernacular in this case. So they kind of knocked the eighties out of this one. I think that the architectural detailing, it's nice to see that it's on all sides of the building. There's detailing in the back and the front, not just treating the front only.

It'll be interesting. I have heard that the owners in the rear, because the rear building still looks like this, aren't in agreement to come through, but they wanna do something, perhaps paint. So we're waiting to hear hear what they come up with because they both have to do they have to agree. Can't just do half the building. So those are our three nominees for this category.

Any thoughts? I'll go first.

I yeah. This duplex, that's amazing what they did with that. I I just don't even remember seeing it. I'm gonna have to go by and and take a look. And it's it's kinda hard because the the duplex and then the commercial building and then a multi family building are all in the same category. So it's just it's kind of a mixed bag, this one. It is. But if you're going for commercial, I mean, I would say the 98 Northwest 5th Avenue between the two multifamily, I mean, I would go with the Nassau Street. But to me, they seem like pretty much two separate categories.

We see that. But, yeah,

I think 98, that's that's a wonderful thing to have in in this this area, in this neighborhood, and what they're doing with the building and and getting businesses in there, that's a great thing for the community. So I really appreciate that one.

Part of the reason why we incorporate these together is the regulations that get applied for commercial are the same that get applied for multifamily commercial. The duplex went in as well because we didn't have a category to fit it into and didn't want to have to wait a year. So to us it made sense to bring it into this category. But if you feel like you want to split some things out, you certainly could make some adjustments if you wish.

I'm okay with that. I think Nassau Street is a great it's a great change and an update from the Mediterranean look to a more modern, sleeker look. It's just so much nicer. Landscaping is that picture right there. The landscaping is very well done. I like the use of the Florida thatch palms. It's just that I run by there sometimes and it looks really nice from outside the wall. I wish I could have seen behind it what they did with the pool. But still, this it's done very nicely. Though, it doesn't look historic.

Right? It's not really doesn't there's no historic nature to this. I think the other projects and I I don't know if we're looking at that, but the other projects still retain a little bit of that, especially '98. It's a it was almost a contributing structure that that now has been updated. And I think by having to add the elevator and then having those other two stair features having similar sort of covered areas, it brings the building a new a new life, and it makes it feel alive.

And I I think the just this whole project altogether seems amazing. You know, commercial property in the West Settlers District, the paving pattern, the landscaping, the way they added the new features to the old building, I think this one for me takes the cake.

Cool. Anything else? Ben? Jake?

I I I agree kinda with Carol too that, you know, in terms of impact to the community where it's built, the 98 Northwest 5th Avenue really has paid the most impact to to the community having the, you know, folks on Nassau Street are gonna be fine. Right? Nassau Street a one a. But, you know, whether that whether that job got done or not. But, you know, the Northwest 5th Avenue really, really needed this building. Yeah.

I agree. I think 98 Northwest 5th Avenue, it came out came out dynamite. They all did but it has the I think it has the best transformation for the the given projects.

I think the board's made a compelling argument for 98 NW 5th Avenue and I'm going to fall in line. It's a really nice project. Well done.

Yeah, I agree with the comments on 1180 and 1190. Remember, and this was the second go around or third go around for this building because at first, I don't even know what it was, it was very 80s and then it got damaged severely in Wilma. It was empty for years and you could just see the mold from the outside and it was nasty. And then this kind of Meissner, I guess you could call it Meissner ish look. But I think the transformation has been fantastic.

But I, yeah, I go with the rest of the board on 98, absolutely. So somebody want to make a motion? Come on man. You're getting good.

I'm ready to the game. Motion

to approve 98 Northwest 5th Avenue West Settlers Historic District as the winner of the 2026 Historic Preservation Board Award for the category of commercial multifamily residential non contributing additions, new construction, and rehabilitation.

Second. We have motion and a second. Call the roll, please.

Peter Dwyer? Yes. Jake Eliopoulos?

Yes.

Richard Kasser is absent. Chris Cabasis? Yes. Benjamin Baffer? Yes. Carol Perez? Yes. John Miller?

Yes. Okay. Final category. So this category is commercially individually designated property for addition and or rehabilitation. So we have two. Right? We have two. Yeah. 142 South Ocean Boulevard, which is the Sandaway House, and then 525 East Atlantic Avenue, which is the Colony Hotel. Both are listed on the individual register local register of historic places.

So the Sandoway House came in and we're struggling with the interior space. They host I I wish I had the numbers in front of me of how many students they host a year. But they not only host members of the public like us, but they're hosting children, school, field trips. You know, they've got touch tanks in the back where they have sea life for the kids to come see, anything from nurse sharks to sea turtles, I believe. And what they were struggling with was the inside space, which was greatly constrained.

When it would get hot. These this porch area really wasn't usable and was having an effect on interior gift shop and and other, you know, air conditioned spaces beyond. So they came in to enclose the porch with glass windows. We worked really hard with mister Iliopoulos' office, Gary, at the time, and Susan Russo, and Danica Sanborn at the Sandaway House. Susan Russo is the president of or was, I think she still is the president of the Sandaway.

To do a renovation where we could still see that this was a porch. Right? So the use of clear glass windows in the front in a pane fashion rather than operable windows, single hung, something that maybe wouldn't look as traditional as a porch might look. And this has been the approach with a lot of different properties across the city. If you ever are out and about and you see something like this, you think, hey. That must have been a porch. You're probably right. So they also did around this time. I think they did the porch, ballast as well. Landscaping, slight improvements.

They're they're always updating this site. Everything on this site is you go out there and it feels like, oh, this is a little new. This little sign is new. They I think have a really great team that are story mapping the nature that's happening on this site. So that is our first candidate.

And then the next candidate we have is the Colony Hotel. So this portion, if you're looking south, this is if you're standing in place where this building is now and you're looking towards the hotel. This is all the way on the north side of the parking lot behind the hotel, North of East Atlantic Avenue. And they were in need of space for maintenance and laundry. So they were using some garage space that was underneath the old annex of the the hotel.

This project was done by Roy Simon along with Justina Boutin and her family. And so that's what this is serving. These are are actually operable doors, and they do come and go from these entrances. That is looking at the same area where the building is now. This here. So you can see in the distance that two thousand's mixed use project.

I built that one. I was with Ironwood.

Were you?

Yeah. The whole project.

I remember Carrie Glickstein coming through for that. Yeah. It's quite nice.

Yeah. My office is right across

the street from In Well Hill.

Yeah. It's nice.

You just west? Just

West. Yeah.

You can So actually you're in that really cute building with think that's also a Sam Augren.

Oh, really?

I think it is. Might be an Augren or a junior. We've looked that up. I hope that building can one day be preserved. It's so cool. Dan Carter used to have his office He in the sold. Yeah.

I'm the only LA now.

Are you? Yeah. He was in the back. I remember I used to have to deliver his board packets to him and he'd always want, come in, would you like a drink? And he'd be having a cigar. And I'm like, no. Got it. Oh, wow. I gotta go. It's Friday.

You know? Anyway,

so this is the location of that new structure right here, which you can see the gooseneck lamps are pretty cool in person. Person. They're a little bit exaggerated in size, but they make such sense on this building. It's just what the building needed was, you know, a a little jewelry. So those are our two projects in the individually designated category.

Was that one of Royce Simon's last?

That was probably his last.

I remember him. House. So the Danklers House on Nassau. Yeah. If anyone's been by, run by that. I've been taking pictures of it going up and back down. And, but, yeah, the Danklers and this, those the last two that we dealt with Roy on.

And Saint Paul's Memorial Garden. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Oh, that's right. Yes. Which I heard took a while.

It was probably the last. Yeah.

It has a little wall.

Yeah. Yeah.

He bent my ear on this one. So, I, one just for the sentimentality of it, I have to go with this one for Justina and Hillary and Roy. I think it looks fantastic. It could be, you know, part of the original, you know, love Sandaway and Gary did a great job on that one too. I mean this one's a tough one. Really. It's a tough one. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I was leaning towards Sandaway just because of the garden itself is so extraordinary, but that's not really part of the, I think, the scope here. Yeah. Yeah. The colony, just has such a historic feel to it. It's done with restraint, but it has that same character as the rest of the building. That's a 100 years old now, right, the colony?

As of a couple of months ago, yeah.

I

think what's pretty cool too is you can see the colony has a textured stucco pattern. Right? And you had kinda picked up on this where it looks historic but it has its you know, this is more of a sharp corner smooth stucco. So I thought that was a really nice thoughtful approach on Roy's part that it has the right color to match. But there's a nod.

You can tell it's yeah.

The trained eye can pick up on the nuance of the difference here.

I wish maybe they had a little bit more landscaping on the sides. But yeah, this one for I guess sentimentality too.

Sandaway, the treatment of the windows is almost exactly what they did at Space of Mind at 102 where they enclosed the porch and it looked very, very similar there.

I remember when that was done, Michael Weiner was that. And I think we had also on Carol's building when Grant owned the building, there was He owns it. Oh, okay. When he did the renovation maybe the first time, there were, like, a plexiglass Windows. Windows on the front enclosing the porch.

Everywhere. The entire building had plexiglass.

Oh, they did all of them. Yeah.

It's like being in an airplane. Can't see out after a

while. Like they don't weather well.

It was kind of the approach in the nineties and February was that instead of actually doing glass was to use, you know, like a plastic material. And I think this is a a much more

eloquent solution. I do think the double door here is a great improvement. It just draws you in. Before it just looked like a forgotten feature and now it really feels like a main grand entry. Not even grand but just an entry that you want to go into.

ADA compliant. Mhmm.

That was a a screen door,

I think.

Mhmm. Yeah.

It was that screen patio with the gopher tortoise out there.

And the ramp was rebuilt also. Yeah. And the railings

Fortunately or unfortunately these are two of the most iconic historic properties we have in the city too. It's like It's

a tie.

Yeah. We've done that before. We've had co winners and I 100% would support that if somebody wanted to make that motion. Right, let's

do a tie. And the time is done. Yeah. Okay.

I don't see how you can have one of these come in second. It's a tie. Alright. Okay.

So I would still need a motion, but you would just say both. You could say it's joint winners.

Could you You have to say the addresses?

Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Please.

Motion to approve 142 South Ocean Boulevard individually designated and 525 East Atlantic Avenue individually designated. Both winners as both winners of the 2026 Historic Preservation Board Award for the category of commercially commercial individually designated addition and or rehabilitation.

Yeah. Good job

though. Second, I did it.

Who seconded? Yes, thank you.

Motion to second.

Peter Dwyer?

Yes.

G. Giliopoulos?

Yes.

Richard Kasser is absent. Chris Kabasis? Doctor. Yep. Doctor. Benjamin Baffer?

Yes. Doctor.

Halena Miller?

Doctor. Yes. Doctor. Jake can go to family dinners now.

He doesn't

go empty handed.

Alright. Alright. So next order of the agenda. First, thank you. Thank you all for your time, your commitment to this board, and reading your staff reports every month, and just really making historic preservation and your service to the city a priority, it makes what we're doing worthwhile.

So we appreciate you all. Our next meeting is May 6 where we will honor the award winners. We're we're have to gonna not have projects to slated yet for the next next meeting. Meeting. We've got a bunch of people in the review process, and I'm super nervous that they're all going to ascend on you at one time.

And if they do, I apologize, But I can't help it. I asked John Miller to come to the May 5 city commission meeting and accept the proclamation for National Historic Preservation Month that will be read. So we look forward to seeing you there at that meeting.

What else? I did, if I can weigh in for a second. So I had reached out to the mayor and city manager about honoring the colony for their hundredth. Both of them said, yeah, great idea. Haven't heard back.

Well, we could certainly put something for our next meeting. Deal

Yeah. For well, for the commission meeting would be the the I mean, we could do it here certainly, but I think the commission meeting would have more impact if we could put something together for that. That'd be fabulous.

Yeah. I mean, we can so what's going to happen is maybe what we can do is this, is we can certainly add it to our presentation for May 6. We are also trying our best to do not an honoring of, but kind of a a wrap of Sunday Village because the big block is, you know, c o in the c o phase. I think they're under TCO or about to get final c o. You know, as you've been driving by, you can see the east blocks are almost done with the with the arcade probably being the most impactful piece of that project.

We're expecting that to come through for CO in mid to late summer. So we want to highlight. You know, it's on social media. People are posting pictures at the different businesses. We wanna do a highlight for the May 6 meeting of the progress with them.

Now that some of the landscaping's growing in and looking more mature, the pictures I think are gonna be really nice. We still have the time lapse. I'd like to kind of show that old time lapse again. But we could do the colony. And then what happens at the second meeting of city commission in May is we present the award winners from this, tonight's meeting, after you award on May 6. So we could have a presentation on the colony as part of that as well. I only get, like, maybe five, maybe ten minutes most.

I don't think Hillary can take a whole lot of time away. So she's super busy, and we had talked to her about doing something. And she's like, I'm just so swamped with season that, you know, maybe at that point it'll die down a little bit. But I I you know, it deserves to be recognized, I think.

Do remember what month was their construction here?

It opened in, I want to say February or March 1926. And then it went bankrupt about a year later. And then it was empty for a number of years. And then or Justina's dad bought it in I think 1935.

This was when did they rename it the Altarip or was

it the No. Was the Altarip for Alfred T Rep. Then actually my uncle had a stock certificate of Delray Hotels. He spent $150 in 1925.

Wow, was a

lot of money.

Lost it all.

We could have a conversation even offline if you wanna talk. Yeah yeah

don't wanna take them anymore board time but sure.

No I don't mind that. I'm just thinking if we can't, I think it would be important that Hilary is there, Justine,

if she

can. A 100%.

If they can't be, maybe we pick a month when it's out of season and a little less hectic for them.

Totally okay with that. As long as it doesn't, you know, gets done this year.

Think they could have maybe an event to celebrate.

They lost half the season because they had a sewage, main sewage line break and they tore up half their building.

Oh my god.

And so they didn't open up until January this year. And off season they're gonna have to tear up the rest of their, half their lobby to do the other part of it. So they've got some significant challenges.

They can have the party in the garages

that we put on. All that terrazzo floor in the lobby is gonna have to get torn up. Wow. Anyway, so yeah, they're they're Going through some things. Going through some stuff so she can't take a whole lot of time out.

Okay. Well, I wrote it down. We'll definitely highlight it at the May 6 meeting. Maybe you and I could work together on some older folks.

Yeah we have a lot of resources and historic We found an old menu of their opening and it was pretty cool.

Nice. We're getting very close to Frog Alley. Very close. I wouldn't even mention at a meeting if I didn't feel like I was close with it. But I don't know if it will be I don't think it will be May 6, but perhaps June, which I think would be appropriate for the month with Juneteenth occurring.

But the next steps with Frog Alley is going to be rolling that out to the community, having some community meetings with the neighbors and and the people who are owning property in that neighborhood. It will cycle through historic and city commissions. So keep an ear eye out for city New Avenue. And it's been York on the docket for quite a while. And I say that meaning all the way back to the nineties when I was here the first time and Vera Farrington and Pat Casey Casey really kind of having to pick, do they wanna do Frog Alley or West Settlers?

And they did West Settlers. So we're doing a nice tribute acknowledgment to her in the beginning of the document because she was a original resident from the neighborhood. So it's a potential new historic district and we'll be bringing that forward soon. Something we've been working pretty hard

on. Great. Awesome. Anything else from the board? Questions, concerns? Meeting adjourned.

Thank you. Thank you.