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Siemens Group is excited to announce that Akoya is now under construction; the most highly anticipated real estate offering to hit Boca Raton in two decades. Akoya is ideally located on the grounds of the Nation’s #1 Private Residential Country Club – Boca West. New buyers can immediately take advantage of club membership with Boca West’s unequalled resort-style amenities. Akoya residents will enjoy the 150,000 sq. ft. club expansion which will be completed just in time for move-in day at Akoya, with no assessment. Act now so you can have it all, limited pre-construction pricing from the $800’s.

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Brokers Welcome. Broker must accompany client during client’s initial visit to this community. Both the client and Broker must execute the Developer’s Registration Form on the initial visit.

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MIZNER’S DREAM CONTENTS

Welcome Letter

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Resort Dining

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The Resort offers guests the opportunity to experience a legend—luxury living with an edge.

Join the Resort’s Premier Club and enjoy your private paradise all year long.

Glow with the Flow, play tennis with Jimmy Connors, sail away on a yacht or stay on campus—and embark on a magical quest.

The days of “hotel dining” are a thing of the past as the Resort presents several world-class, chef-driven restaurants.

By Libby Volgyes

Weddings

Shirt, pants and shoes from Lord & Taylor, Mizner Park, Boca Raton; diamond and emerald bands, and Roberto Coin ring, from Altier Jewelers, Boca Raton Resort & Club

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From barefoot on the beach to a grand soiree in a dazzling ballroom, the Resort makes wedding dreams come true—every day, all year long.

By Brenna Fisher Cuba

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Enlighten Up

The Resort offers its guests and club members a fresh approach on wellness through menus and mindfulness, exercise and relaxation.

By Pauline Estrem

Making A Splash

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Resort Casual

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City With A Heart

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The Resort’s spin on the Salt Life includes a surf school, scuba training and the exciting FlowRider™.

By Rich Pollack

Take the edge off with bold fashions from Boca’s leading luxury retailers.

Photography by Beth Studenberg

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Boca Raton’s colorful history has been shaped by visionaries and philanthropists.

By Emily J. Minor

City Within A City

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Concours d’Elegance

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The Resort may as well have its own ZIP code—one that means land and sea, widely different venues and a staff that puts caring at the top.

By John Thomason

The Resort hosts an annual car show and gala benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Florida.

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ON THE COVER FASHION: Halston heritage dress from Alene Too, Boca Resort; Jimmy Choo shoes from Footcandy, Delray Beach; tennis bracelets and drop earrings, Cartier tank watch, Gucci Flora ring and Horsebit bracelet, Roberto Coin Pois Mois bracelet, all from Altier Jewelers, Boca Resort.

PHOTOGRAPHER: Beth Studenberg Photography MODEL: Victoria G/Ford Models Inc. STYLIST: Deana Anais/Wilhelmina HAIR & MAKEUP: Crystal Gossman @ Agency Gerard Management using Kevyn Aucoin and Arrojo

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Classic Combination Bracelets in Coral and Turquoise with Diamonds

78 Royal Palm Place • Boca Raton, FL 561-393-3532 • www.verdijewelers.com

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LETTER FROM THE RESORT

WELCOME

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elcome to Boca Raton, an award-winning city in which to live, work and visit. At the epicenter of Boca Raton is the Boca Raton Resort & Club, where it all started.

More than 90 years ago, famed architect Addison Mizner acquired more than 1,500 acres to formulate a master plan for the city of Boca Raton. Consistent with today’s developers, Mizner built the Cloister Inn (the east side of the Cloister building) to give homebuyers a taste of what the Boca Raton lifestyle would be.

Fast-forward to today, as city leaders make Boca Raton an example of modernizing a city while retaining a great respect for its past. The visionary development that continues in 2016 will make Boca Raton one of the top pedestrian-friendly, affluent waterfront communities in the country. The Boca Raton Resort & Club has run a parallel course with the city in terms of its own modernization, one that we can only trust would make Addison Mizner proud.

Since 2005, more than $250 million has been spent to elevate the facilities of the Boca Raton Resort & Club above today’s luxury traveler’s standards. In the past year or two, the historic Cloister building, restaurants, public areas and health club all have undergone considerable redesign and investment. The Beach Club just celebrated its sixth anniversary after being redesigned and renovated, reopening in 2009.

One of the newer additions to the Resort programming is the Flow House, featuring the FlowRider™ and Shaka Bar and Grill, adjacent to the Great Hall. The Boca Raton Resort & Club is at the peak of its form and continues to evolve as an international luxury destination. This, combined with an incredible team of hospitality professionals—many from some of the finest hospitality and culinary schools— assures you a memorable stay at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

Again, welcome to our city and to this legendary Resort. Know that all of us—1,800 associates—view it as a privilege to earn our livelihoods here, and an even greater privilege to serve you.

With warm wishes for a memorable experience.

—The management and staff of the Boca Raton Resort & Club

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MIZNER’S DREAM group editor-in-chief | marie speed editor | kevin kaminski managing editor | john thomason web editor | taryn tacher contributing art director | mary branch senior art director | lori pierino art director | nancy kumpulainen photographers | aaron bristol, beth studenberg, libby volgyes production manager | mandy wynne production coordinator | valentine s. fracassi contributing writers | brenna fisher cuba, pauline estrem, emily j. minor, rich pollack, libby volgyes sales director | tim schwab director of special publications | bruce klein jr. account managers | georgette evans, gail eagle, ginie meadows, rebecca valenza circulation coordinator | kat algeo

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BECOME A CLUB MEMBER The vacation of a lifetime is at your fingertips—right here, all year round.

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or some 90 years, the Boca Raton Resort & Club has maintained a reputation as one of the most luxurious and exclusive resorts in the world. This Old World masterpiece with a vibrant, contemporary vibe is an international vacation destination—as well as an exclusive private club.

The Resort’s Premier Club allows members full access to all Resort amenities, from the world-class Waldorf Astoria Spa to several chef-driven restaurants, a

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PREMIER CLUB AMENITIES: Beach On the Resort’s entirely private half-mile, white-sand beach, members may enjoy a variety of water sports—including stand-up paddleboarding, a popular surf school and personal watercraft—not to mention cocktail service on the beach and luxury cabanas (with butler service!).

Golf Golf at the Resort is legendary, with a par-71 Resort Course on the main property, at 6,253 yards, that also features the Kellie Stenzel Golf Academy; Stenzel is ranked among the top 100 teachers in the nation by Golf magazine. The nearby Country Club Course, at 6,714 yards, features the Dave Pelz Scoring School to improve your short game. The Resort Course was designed in 1926 by William Flynn and is one of South Florida’s most historic golf courses.

Tennis The Premier Club’s tennis experience includes 18 award-winning Har-Tru tennis courts (and 12 at the nearby Country Club), many lit for evening play. The tennis concierge service arranges matches, schedules lessons and plans tournaments—an exclusive convenience available to Premier Club members. The Resort’s new partnership with tennis icon Jimmy Connors gives members a chance to get out on the court or get a few pointers from this winner of eight Grand Slam singles championships.

Beach Club Health Club offers the latest in advanced cardiovascular and strength training equipment, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a full schedule of fitness activities.

Dining The Resort has a myriad of restaurants and bars, with a portfolio of fine dining options—from Tuscan to sushi to seafood—that are available only to members and hotel guests. These include SeaGrille at the Boca Beach Club; the blue fine-dining restaurant atop the Resort’s iconic pink tower; and Serendipity, New York City’s famed ice cream shop with new “grab and go” fresh dining options.

Flow House Boca Creating unforgettable memories, the Boca Raton Resort & Club is home to South Florida’s first Flow House featuring a dual-sided FlowRiderTM wave simulator for bodyboarding and surfing. After making a splash, members can hang loose poolside with light bites and beverages at the new Shaka Bar & Grill, serving burgers, tacos and frozen drinks. The Resort’s comprehensive Surf Boca provides opportunities for all ages to master the waves and take part in a wide array of water sports, including paddleboarding, Jet Skiing, catamarans and skim-boarding, among other options.

Children’s Programming

Premier Club members are afforded full access to the Resort’s Waldorf Astoria Spa, named the No. 1 Spa in the World in Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards. Special discounts are available exclusively to members for a variety of signature treatments, facials and massages tailored to their individual needs by a team of spa experts, as well as the celebrated Ritual Bath, complete with nine individual mineral baths.

An innovative “one-of-a-kind” program for families, the Boca Resort’s new Mizner’s Quest Club includes a seasonal supervised camp, recreational sports deck, rooftop garden with interactive stations, a tweens and teens nightclub, an arcade center and Mizner’s Quest, a scavenger-like program around the Resort filled with interactive learning experiences. Running seasonally and every weekend, the supervised Quest Camp features everything from soccer, yoga, tie-dying and stuffed animal-making to fishing, golf, tennis and more.

Fitness

Entertainment

The cornerstone of the Enlightened Lifestyle program, the Resort’s Health Club boasts a recent $1.3 million fitness renovation, complete with a new Stretch Zone, special Power Plate training (used by the NFL), Kids Fitness and more. For a workout with spectacular ocean views, the

Premier Club members also have access to themed parties and entertainment—from our New Year’s Eve “Rock the Block” party to a special holiday tree lighting, and events featuring entertainers such as the Spin Doctors, Smash Mouth and Crystal Waters, as well as tribute bands.

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To secure your Premier Club membership, call Premier Membership Sales at 561/447-3000 to speak with a sales professional.

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The Resort village has it all, from golf lessons to block parties, wave rides, wellness options and high-tech apps—all at your fingertips.

90 YEARS & COUNTING! This year, the Boca Raton Resort & Club celebrates its 90th anniversary. Since its inception, the Resort has been a cornerstone of Boca Raton—and has set the bar for Boca’s legendary lifestyle.

Designed by eccentric society architect Addison Mizner, the Resort put Boca Raton on the map as South Florida was coming to life in the 1920s. One of the most expensive hotels of its era, it became an international destination—and a byword for Old World Mediterranean elegance in its early days. During World War II, the Resort housed soldiers when the U.S. Army Air Corps expanded, and in 1969, it added the 300-foot pink tower, the tallest building between West Palm Beach and Pompano, and a precursor to later renovations.

In the decades since, the Resort has undergone sweeping changes, from the addition of a glamorous Beach Club and surf school to its array of world-class restaurants and its visionary Enlightened Lifestyle initiative.

Its technological innovations bring the guest experience to new levels of ease and luxury, and its location on the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway offer an unparalleled Florida experience.

The Resort may be celebrating 90 years, but we think it’s just getting started.

Boca Raton Resort & Club Historical Timeline 1926: On Feb. 6, 1926, the Cloister Inn, modeled by architect Addison Mizner after a Spanish castle, opens as the most expensive 100-room hotel of its day at $1.25 million.

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1928: The inn is purchased by Philadelphia utility magnate Clarence Geist and expands to include more guestrooms, the former Cabana Club and a new golf course.

1930: The Cloister Inn reopens after $8 million in renovations as the Boca Raton Club and is run as a private club, open seasonally from January to March until Geist’s death in 1938.

1940: U.S. Army Air Corps trainees occupy the Resort during World War II, remaining for four years and terming the property “the most elegant barracks in history.”

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The Sparkle Effect

Boca Raton: Winningest City

Whether it’s a special

Boca’s always either in the news or winning awards for something! Here are a few notable mentions over the past few years.

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• Schools: Boca Raton High School is routinely included in the Top 100 High Schools in the country by Newsweek.

• Affluence: If you’ve got it, we say flaunt it. Boca Raton’s 33496 ZIP code is among the “Top 100 Richest ZIP Codes” in the nation, based on IRS data.

• Congeniality: CreditDonkey, a credit card comparison website, broke down stats city by city and determined Boca Raton was the best Florida city in which to live.

• Best-dressed: Ranked the No. 2 Best Dressed Small City in America by The Movoto Blog (published by the Movoto real estate firm), behind Santa Monica, Calif., for its devotion to fashion.

• Environment: Boca gets high marks for being pretty—and green. We’re a Tree City and bicycle-friendly, and we’re awarded for our water re-use by the Florida Water Environmental Association, and for our landscaping by the Roadside Vegetative Management Association. We use special lights to protect sea turtles, and we have one gazillion parks.

• Giving: With great wealth comes great responsibility. There are more than 1,100 charities in Boca Raton, one of the top 30 grant-makers in Florida and hundreds of philanthropists who routinely put their money where their mouths are. It’s hard to top that kind of heart in a community.

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1944: Real estate and theater entrepreneur J. Myer Schine buys the club for a paltry $3 million and reopens it as the Boca Raton Hotel and Club.

Jewelers in the Cloister you want. The first jewelry store in Boca Raton and still overseen by the founders’

Gucci Marina necklace available at Altier Jewelers

grandson, Cutler Altier, this jewelry atelier offers guests an array of services, from jewelry repair and watch service to imaginative custom designs.

MIZNER QUEST! The Resort has a world of discovery based on imagination and exploration waiting for its younger guests—based in their own Mizner Quest clubhouse at the Beach Club, fully stocked with toys, games, movies, costumes and more. Here’s what’s happening: • The Quest Club Camp: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays; ages 3 to 12; registration and pick-up at Old Cloister Lobby, Main Resort; registration includes a backpack, water bottle and T-shirt (to be worn while at camp). For weekend camp location, please text 561/447-3000.

1956: On March 1, 1956, Arthur Vining Davis, former Alcoa CEO, buys the hotel and surrounding property for $22.5 million. Davis later forms his namesake company, Arvida Corp., which owns and operates the hotel for about 27 years.

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1969: Arvida begins a $14 million expansion program, including the 27-story Tower and golf villas. In addition, a conference center gives the hotel a balance of leisure and business.

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1980: The Boca Beach Club replaces the old Cabana Club, a $20 million addition with 214 rooms, eight suites, a half-mile of private Atlantic beach and two restaurants.

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TOP THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOCA RATON • Boca’s robust business climate distinguishes it from other South Florida communities; it is headquarters for Office Depot, ADT, Garda World Security Corporation, NCCI and Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

• It was in Boca Raton that Bill Gates signed his historic deal, giving IBM the contract to build the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system for Gates’ personal computer line. The conference table where he signed that deal is still in the old IBM building, now Don Estridge High Tech Middle School.

• The Boca Raton Bowl televised on ESPN is held every December at FAU Stadium and features college football teams from the Mid-American Conference and other Division I conferences.

• All Boca Raton’s public schools are rated A by the state of Florida.

• Q Kids’ Nightclub: Quest Clubhouse at the Boca Beach Club, from 9 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays.

• The Quest Rooftop, all ages, above the Resort’s Great Hall, offers The Rec Deck open court to play basketball, soccer, pingpong, foosball, cornhole, horizontal rock-wall scaling and much more!

• The Nature Deck, an herb and butterfly garden with complimentary DIY interactive stations, where guests can make mosaics and birdhouses, and gather sunflower seeds to plant at the new Garden of Fame, on the ground level under the sea grape tree.

And don’t forget your Mizner’s Quest Map! Using your Mizner’s Quest Map, venture on a resort-wide journey to visit each Point of Discovery!

At each location you will find a rubbing

1983: The Boca Raton Hotel and Club is sold to the Boca Raton Hotel & Club Limited Partnership and VMS Realty Corp.

• Boca Raton is a center for medical excellence, including the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and the Marcus Neuroscience Institute. Last year, FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the only medical school in Palm Beach County, graduated its first class of new physicians.

• The Allianz Championship golf tournament is held every February at the Old Course at Broken Sound in Boca and features the top Champions Tour players.

• The Florida Atlantic Univeristy (FAU) Tech Runway is a public-private partnership formed in 2014 to foster technology startups, offering a collaborative workspace for entrepreneurs to house, educate, mentor and fund their companies from inception through venture funding.

plate that corresponds with a blank rectangle on your map, and will help you, stop by stop, to fill in the puzzle. Once you have found all the locations on your map, and the picture is complete, redeem it at Serendipity to receive a surprise!

There is also the famous Mizner’s Quest riddle: “Where lies the King of the Cloister?”

Post the answer on our Facebook page and win a special Resort souvenir.

Follow us on Twitter to receive up-to-date hints on hard-to-find Points of Discovery. Share your Mizner’s Quest photos on our Facebook wall (facebook.com/bocaresort) or Instagram (instagram.com/bocaresort) for a chance to become our Fan of the Week.

1988: The property becomes known as the Boca Raton Resort & Club and acquires the Boca Country Club on Congress Avenue, about seven miles from the Cloister, featuring luxury homes and condominiums, a championship 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, a fitness center and dining facilities for hotel guests, club members and property residents.

1991: The Boca Raton Resort & Club undergoes an $11 million renovation, bringing the total refurbishing expenditures to $55 million since 1983.

1993: The Boca Raton Management Company replaces VMS Realty Corp. as the general partner for the Boca Raton Hotel & Club Limited Partnership.

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ROCK THE BLOCK Want a better way to ring in the New Year? The Boca Raton Resort & Club celebrates the countdown with the “Rock the Block on New Year’s Eve” party. Featuring live performances, great food and attractions for the kids, it is a party for the whole family to enjoy. Ticket prices range from $70 to $595 and are available online at bocaresort.com/events.

If Tennis is Your Racquet …

You might want to make room on the court for one of the Resort’s newest Premier Members— Jimmy Connors. Connors is one of tennis’ greatest legends, including five U.S. Open and two Wimbledon wins. Members and guests have more than just a chance to spot Connors and his wife, Patti, around the Resort & Club enjoying its amenities, and serious tennis players have the opportunity to spend either a half-day or full day at the Tennis Center with the former No. 1 player.

The Boca Raton Resort & Club is also a great place for your child of any age to learn the game.

Contact Todd Roth at 561/447-3105 for more information on tennis classes for ages 3 to 16.

1996: Guest rooms and suites in the Cloister and Tower undergo renovation, and a $10 million tennis and fitness center opens as construction begins on Mizner Center, a $40 million meeting and catering facility.

1997: H. Wayne Huizenga and Florida Panther Holdings Inc., now Boca Resorts Inc., purchases the resort for $325 million, and Gene Bates completes a $6.5 million redesign of the Resort Golf Course.

1998: Mizner Center opens as a comprehensive meeting and conference facility, featuring four unique ballrooms and 80,000 square feet of flexible function space.

2000: The Grand Piazza is completed, including Bar Luna, a renovated Malone’s Magic Bar, the Tuscan restaurant Lucca and more.

A complete renovation takes place at an average cost of $30,000 per room.

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Come Sail Away Take to the sea in style on the grounds of Boca Raton Resort & Club.

The 32-slip marina is perfect for fishing and sailing charters, boat rides and yacht rentals.

• Deep-Sea Fishing & Sea Ray Rentals: Enjoy your day fishing on the Atlantic Ocean in the waters closest to the Gulf Stream with half- and full-day deep-sea fishing charters. There is no need to have your own equipment as the charters arrive stocked and are controlled by an experienced captain. You can rent the 19- or 21-foot Sea Rays, which accommodate seven and eight people respectively, from two hours to a full day, or charter the 48-foot luxury motoryacht for up to 12 people.

• Cruises & Sailing Charters: Coast along the South Florida Intracoastal on the lavish Mizner’s Dream. This 20-passenger cruiser is available for halfdays and mini cruises and is fully air-conditioned. For something more

intimate, rent the 40-foot-plus sailing yacht that comfortably accommodates six people for a half- or full day. Or sail and snorkel with the 55-foot catamaran that seats 49 passengers, but remember that reservations are required.

• Raceboat Thrill Rides & WaveRunner Rentals: If you are looking for a little more of an adventure, check out the 20-, 30- and 60-minute Raceboat Thrill Rides. These boats can also be rented out for pub crawls and poker runs. Two to five people are required. Enjoy the waters with WaveRunners that are available for 30 or 60 minutes.

To reserve a boat or request more information, contact Toni Merlino at 561/447-3474.

2001: Featuring 22 treatment rooms, the palatial Spa Palazzo is unveiled, while a two-story golf clubhouse debuts with a casual restaurant and luxurious locker rooms.

2003: The new Salon di Palazzo opens; a new golf practice green and a new croquet green debut; and a new children’s playground and water park are added to the children’s activities.

2002: The eight-story Yacht Club opens with 112 water-view guest rooms and suites. The new marina, with 32 mega-yacht slips, opens at the base of the Yacht Club.

2004: An affiliate of The Blackstone Group, a private investment banking firm, purchases BRI in December for $1.2 billion. Blackstone has a history of investing in its properties, significantly enhancing services and amenities, and the same is anticipated for the Boca Raton Resort & Club and its sister properties in the Boca Resorts collection.

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A Golfing Legacy For close to a century, golfers from around the world have come to play the revered course at Boca Raton Resort & Club that was once played by some of the game’s greatest legends, like Tommy Armour and Sam Snead.

Resort guests and club members have two layouts from which to choose, the Resort course and the Country Club course, as well as two golf schools.

Dave Pelz is golf’s go-to instructor for all things short game, with a school at the Country Club course that offers one-day clinics, two- and three-day golf schools and private group lessons.

The Kellie Stenzel Golf Academy also calls the Boca Raton Resort & Club home. Golf magazine rates Kellie Stenzel Stenzel as a Top 100 Teacher in the country, and she has also recorded several years as a professional player. Between private lessons, clinics and the option of a full-day school with on-course instruction, there is something for all ages and levels of experience at Stenzel’s Academy. Call 561/447-3419 to make a reservation.

GET THE PARTY STARTED A federal holiday, a family celebration, a landmark occasion … there’s always an excellent reason for a party. The Boca Raton Resort & Club can help you celebrate in style with a turnkey roster of services, from party planning and flowers to food, venue and theme decor—we have all the resources to make your bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, graduation, family reunion, baby shower, retirement, birthday, anniversary or wedding the day you always dreamed of.

2005-2006: Multimillion-dollar refurbishment of the Resort is underway, including a “new” lobby, redesigned rooms, Boca Bungalows and the Old Homestead Steakhouse and Cielo restaurants.

2007-2008: Ongoing refurbishments of the Resort include the Beach Club; the new Palm Court; and the addition of a sushi bar (by Masaharu Morimoto of “Iron Chef” fame) and New York’s renowned dessert restaurant, Serendipity.

2009: Opening of the new Boca Beach Club.

2010: The Resort opens 501 East Restaurant and Bar, serving up American classics with a trendy twist.

Open for lunch and dinner, 501 East overlooks the Resort’s majestic golf course.

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Seamless Connecting The Resort is always dreaming up new ways to elevate the guest experience through smart technology. Here are a few new upgrades for your vacation stay.

• Boca Meet 360°: This new meetings app offers an in-depth virtual site tour of the Resort, including its meeting rooms, accommodation styles, leisure activities and amenities. Much like a gyroscope, the app provides a floor-to-ceiling panoramic look at 15 key points of interest to meeting and wedding planners, a live Facebook feed, a LinkedIn Group feature, an interactive “plan your meeting” tool and contact information. The Boca Meet 360° app can be downloaded from the App Store or bocameet360.com.

• Shuttle tracker: Resort shuttles have all been equipped with GPS tracking, and iPads have been installed at each shuttle stop so guests can now conveniently track the timing of shuttles.

• Guest texts: The Resort has a new texting service, the Guest Experience Platform built by Kipsu, designed to personalize and enhance guest interaction. Guests receive a welcome text and are offered the option to use text messaging to get assistance, make requests or ask questions. The texting service is designed to be efficient and fast—with Resort staff focused on answering texts in 60 seconds.

• Instaquest: The Boca Raton Resort & Club invites guests to explore the beautiful sights and facilities around the Resort through Instaquest. At check-in, guests are given a map of the Resort, with some locations highlighted as “Instaquest locations.” These are the locations where the Resort encourages guests to take and upload pictures to Instagram with #instaquest and #bocaresort. The Cloister Garden and Tennis and Health Club are just two of the nine stops on the Instaquest map.

Upload a picture of each location and tag the Resort (@bocaresort) to receive a complimentary dessert at Serendipity!

GLOW WITH THE FLOW The Resort’s popular FlowRider™ attraction (see page 102) just got a little cooler. Now, during Saturday nights in the summer, the FlowRider™ offers “GlowFlow.” GlowFlow is the ultimate surfer’s destination, creating a glow-in-the-dark surfing experience. The FlowRider™ is open Tuesdays-Sundays in both the morning and afternoon, with stand-up surfing and bodysurfing offered at separate times. Surfing clinics, classes and private lessons are offered at the Beach Club.

2011: The 244 Tower guestrooms at the Resort are revamped with an estimated $4 million makeover.

Design enhancements from linens and fixtures to lighting and artwork transport each room from Old Florida style to a sophisticatedcontemporary look.

2013: The Surf School opens at the Resort.

2014: The Cloister rooms are completely renovated; the FlowRider™ is added to the Resort’s recreational amenities.

2015: Total renovation of the Cloister Health Club is completed.

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ASSET & LAWSUIT PROTECTION to Protect Everything You Own From Everyone, Every Time!

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People who are less affluent are vulnerable in a different way: If a person with $100,000 in assets gets sued for $1 million, they’ll be wiped out, whereas the person with $5 million can survive a $1 million lawsuit.

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Don’t rely solely on liability insurance. Buy as much insurance as you can; it’s cheap and it helps you sleep at night. But realize that 70 percent of claims are not covered. Your coverage may be inadequate for a particular suit; your insurance company may go bankrupt. Having insurance and an asset protection plan is the belt and suspenders approach to hanging onto your pants.

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They may have more financial problems than you.

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Protect your assets with liens. What is a $100,000 car worth if you owe $95,000? What is a $1 million house worth if you owe $950,000?

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Utilize International asset protection. Enjoy an even greater degree of privacy and debtor protection with the many additional legal and procedural obstacles that creditors have to face in International jurisdictions.

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B E CO M E A M E M B E R O F F LO R I DA’ S P R E M I E R R E S O RT C LU B .

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The Resort offers a range of fine dining options— and a roster of rock star chefs.

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ddison Mizner’s beautiful hotel—the Boca Raton Resort & Club—will celebrate its 90th birthday in February.

But the number 25 is also big—that’s how many years Resort executive chef Andrew Roenbeck has been at the helm.

“I never thought I was going to be here that long,” Roenbeck says. “Chefs are a little like nomads. We take our bag of tricks that we’ve learned over the years—we usually last three, four, five years—and we move onto something else. But this place is interesting. We push ourselves. Our clientele is constantly changing and demanding.

It’s the perfect scenario for a chef like me. It has allowed me to stay here as long as I have because we have the ability and the freedom to develop and to change with the times versus being dictated to from a corporate side of things.”

Roenbeck, who studied at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, currently oversees a $70 million food and beverage operation. In a given month there can be upward of 200,000 covers at the Resort—some 2 million per year. He oversees 190 cooks, 16 area chefs and 65 stewards at the 13 food and beverage outlets.

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But it didn’t start out like that.

He started out as an executive sous chef, and as he evolved into his role as executive chef, so has the dining scene.

Today at the Boca Resort, each restaurant has a different identity to provide the perfect experience for what the guest is craving at that moment: Mediterranean-inspired Tuscan at Lucca; “sea to table” at the SeaGrille; sophisticated New American at The Blue; California cool at Shaka. The list goes on. The emphasis? Each restaurant should be outstanding.

Roenbeck attributes the changes in Resort restaurants to a well-traveled clientele. “(They) understand what good quality food is and what poor quality food is,” he says.

“There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”

How is Resort dining different now from when you started here?

The Resort was transitioning from a MAP hotel—Modified American Plan—of the old Grande Dame hotels. They used to include in your room rate breakfast and dinner because there was nothing else around. So if we had 900

people in the Resort, we knew we’d have 900 people for breakfast and 900 people for dinner.

As Boca Raton started to develop, the business travelers became much more knowledgeable about food, and their expectations and demand level began to increase.

The Resort could no longer provide food like that.

It wasn’t acceptable; people wanted options. Just as I started at the hotel, that program stopped, and we started to develop individual restaurants here on the property. We had a term— each restaurant had to swim in their lane. If we’re going to develop Lucca, then we’re going to have a Tuscan restaurant— and it’s going to be the best Tuscan restaurant we can provide.

served so much prime rib early in my career, you kind of OD’d on it. At a restaurant on a busy Friday or Saturday night, or large banquet back then with 800 or 900 people, everyone ate a 12to 14-ounce slab of prime rib. I can’t give away prime rib today in that same venue.

Now the total opposite end of that would be a dryaged, prime New York bisteca, marinated 48 hours with olive oil, garlic, rosemary, aged-balsamic and black pepper, and it gets a really heavy char and crust on the outside of that bisteca. That New York strip is then sliced 3/4-inch thick, block-cut, straight down on a nice shingle—versus a 14-ounce huge honker of meat. Big difference today.

“Where food is going is in a great positive direction. I think we’re going to continue to see an expansion of great grains—farro, spelt, lentils.”

—Chef Roenbeck

What was popular 25 years ago?

It sounds like you’re making some drastic changes.

I do not eat prime rib to this day. I hate it. I

I would say redefining the foundation, that’s

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what great operations do. Great resorts are constantly looking to evolve and to reestablish themselves. You’re talking about a property that was built in 1926. We could really sit back on our laurels and say we’re the big old bad historic Boca Resort & Club.

If we served food or even tried to serve food that was acceptable 25 to 30 years ago you’d be fired as a chef here. Quickly. You’d be gone.

Where are you headed in the next few years?

I think true hardcore farm-to-table is proving more challenging than people think. I also think that with education and knowledge, people are really starting to get a true grasp of what 100-percent organic food is and what it’s not.

So we’re going to see a little softening of that.

But where food is going is in a great positive direction. I think we’re going to continue to see an expansion of great grains—farro, spelt, lentils. And understanding that food and the robustness of flavor is going to come from vinegars, acids and spice.

That bold spice is going to come through lots of different avenues. There’s a spice out there that we use more and more called togarashi—it’s an Asian spice that a couple of years ago people wouldn’t know what the heck it was. But to sprinkle that … to get into a much more dynamic multilevel spice like the togarashi—that sense really is umami, and that’s where we’re looking to bring food.

Takao Soejima

{ Chef of Morimoto } Cooking for Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto demands exceptional skill and dedication. Luckily, chef Takao Soejima has plenty of both; no wonder he’s been in command of the stylish restaurant since it opened. His culinary education began as a child at his mother’s side, preparing rice and miso soup. He then went on to work in sushi restaurants on the East and West coasts before taking a position at Morimoto in Philadelphia, where he rose to be head sushi chef.

• Signature Dish: Miso soup.

“This soup was the first thing I learned to make in my cooking class in fourth grade. It is very easy to make, but it’s really hard to make it well.”

• Words to Cook By: “We don’t take any shortcuts to make good food. It takes time and skill and lots of love, but the result is so obvious that it separates us from that ordinary sushi place down the street.”

Which is your favorite restaurant to dine in?

Asking the executive chef that question is like asking whom your favorite child is. But we all have our favorite. And I would say my favorite is Lucca. Just because, if I have a preference, that tends to lean toward Mediterranean preparation. I love how the food is simplistic in its preparation: It’s all about the food and the flavor. The flavor of that great quality food needs to speak for itself. It doesn’t need to be over-complicated.

What’s your signature dish?

A cauliflower stir-fried rice, but there’s no rice, with seared sea scallops on top with a sweet soy and miso drizzle. We grate raw cauliflower with a box grater so that it looks like rice, then stir-fry it very quickly in a hot pan with sesame, garlic and ginger. It’s got a tremendous flavor profile—so no carbs, great robust flavor—clean and bright.

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Barbecue spiced shrimp and grits

Ray Dolan

{ Restaurant chef of 501 East, oversees Shaka } Ray Dolan, who grew up in Chicago, was on a very different trajectory less than a decade ago. In his previous life, he was in school for prelaw. He recalls the classes being horrendous, so he took a personality test—and “culinary” popped up. He enrolled in a class, and Dolan fell in love. At 501 East, he’s been turning his attention to the American-style steak house, focusing on getting the most true flavors out of the ingredients while simplifying the menu.

“Obviously, (we have) lots and lots of beerinfluenced items, so a lot of the items appear very gastro-pubby,” Dolan says. “We do have 50 craft beers on tap, many of them local to Florida.”

• Signature Dish: The low country-inspired classic, barbecue spiced shrimp and grits, is always a crowd-pleaser.

• Kitchen Philosophy: “Do what you’re told when you’re told—what my old football coach used to tell me.”

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Christie Tenaud

Christie Tenaud’s vision of her New American restaurant on the 27th floor of the Resort is limited only by her imagination.

“That’s what I like most about my role within this restaurant: We can do whatever we want,” Tenaud says.

That comes out in homemade pasta dyed pink with beet juice or scallops crudo, reinvented shrimp étouffée influenced by her love of Louisiana, and Asian-inspired mussels or oysters cooked five different ways.

Then there’s the claw bar—overflowing with king crab legs, seasonal stone crab claws, Maine lobster claws, shrimp and four to six different oysters.

Tenaud remembers being 6 years old and “taking orders” for a cheese sandwich for her mother.

“I think it was that, trying to make people happy with food, not just for the purpose of feeding, but seeing their faces when they taste something they like,” Tenaud recalls.

Much later, she worked for James Beard winner Melissa Kelly as her chef de cuisine at Primo in Arizona.

• Signature Dish: Oven-roasted Maine lobster • Kitchen Philosophy: “It is just playing with food.

That’s why I love doing what I do. It’s making people happy with food.”

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{ Executive chef of the blue }

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Adam Parker

{ Restaurants chef }

Oversees the Palm Court, Serendipity, Bar Luna, The Spa Café, the main kitchen and production Newly hired restaurants chef Adam Parker hit the ground running at the Boca Resort, bringing with him a cadre of little ideas that pack a big punch. As restaurants chef, he’s responsible for the research and development of driving business—“making the areas that I’m in better,” he explains. But as he jumps into explaining the projects he’s working on, it’s clear that he’s having a lot of fun.

Classically trained at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, he’s worked for The Breakers, Aramark and The Sagamore Resort in upstate New York. In addition, he has created more than 1,400 different ice sculptures. At the Boca Resort, he’s implemented a yogurt bar that focuses on acai and includes six different types of granola; bottled a special hot sauce (more than 4,000 bottles, medium heat); and developed custom-built eggs Benedicts and chocolate silk-screened plates with the Boca Resort logo. There’s also wheatgrass-blended juices served in the mornings at the Palm Court, courtesy of him. Look for his ice sculptures coming soon.

• Signature Dish: “Banana fritters. I was finding I couldn’t get enough banana flavor, so I would roast the bananas, put them in a milk and then puree them. Then you get banana all the way through. It’s delicious.”

• Kitchen Philosophy: “I truly believe that every meal should be the best experience you’ve ever had.”

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Adam Pile

{ Restaurant chef of Lucca, Bar Luna }

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Adam Pile started out at the Resort as a student-extern 12 years ago and worked his way up to executive chef of Lucca. (He’s also the executive chef of Bar Luna.)

Since he started at Lucca four years ago, he’s watched the restaurant grow—from number of diners to the quality of the food. Lately, that means making organic whole-wheat pizza dough and fresh, homemade pasta daily.

“We try to keep things simple, let the ingredients speak for themselves, make sure we’re sourcing good quality ingredients,” Pile says.

• Signature Dish: Grilled Mediterranean octopus with sunchokes, leeks and fennel pollen • Words to Cook By: “We always try to be as seasonal as possible, that’s kind of our main goal—to make sure we’re appropriate for the seasons. We’re changing; we’re always evolving.”

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LIFE IS A BANQUET studded in both creativity and quality.

For example, there’s “The Big O”—an all-organic, all-natural lunch where the Resort literally brings a farm to the resort, turning a ballroom into a veritable market where guests can walk up and down the “fields” choosing lettuces that are snipped directly and added to their plates.

Roenbeck has noticed a significant change at how events are attended, which he largely attributes to the popularity of the Food Network and the average person’s sophistication when it comes to the quality of food and ingredients. Now, people want many, many more live action stages versus the formal plated events.

“They want interaction, they want to talk about ingredients, they want to see that one-on-one so they can smell and see it being cooked in front of them,” Roenbeck says. “Eight out of 10 events we do are done in that format.”

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“There’s a difference between banquet food and hosting events. We do events,” says Andrew Roenbeck, executive chef of the Resort. “That comes from the attention to detail that is placed with doing events. Even though they can be large volume—1,000 people, 1,500 people—what differentiates us is that we view our event food the exact same way as our restaurant/a la carte experience.

“Statistics show that 80 percent of an event planner/company or group’s main decision on selecting a resort or hotel is made of food or beverage,” Roenbeck continues.

The Resort did 80 weddings in 2015, served up 25,000 pounds of shrimp, 30,000 pounds of live Maine lobsters and 80,000 filet mignons. To execute these star-quality events, Roenbeck relies on Tim Gilberry, Scott Manocchio and Bret Hines. Each has his own role, and together they pull off events

From left: Tim Gilberry, Bret Hines and Scott Manocchio

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Gonzalo Rivera grew up harvesting fruit in Northern California, earning $1 for every bucket of prunes.

“I have a very, very huge respect for product,” Rivera says.

It was his grandma who taught him about cooking; she demonstrated how to make tamales and the art of a fresh tortilla.

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Later on, he learned the art of composing dishes from a different teacher: famed chef Michael Mina, with whom he studied for seven years. He went on to work in Mexico, Los Angeles, San Francisco and at the Tides Hotel in Miami.

“We eat with our eyes first,” Rivera says. “You always want to compose a dish that’s just beautiful.”

At the Boca Beach Club, where Rivera’s responsibilities include overseeing the culinary operation of Beaches, SeaGrille and the Ocean Bar, Rivera is implementing a menu filled with cool ceviches and crudos, beautifully composed fruit salads and seasonally inspired dishes. He’s excited about bringing in a little canoe and showing off the catch of the day—a little fish market to greet diners.

“We want to make this place very seasonally inspired cuisine, from room service to breakfast to lunch to dinner.

With my background I believe we can do that very well.”

• Signature Dish: Grilled banana leaf-wrapped yellowtail snapper, kaffir lime-scented basmati rice, sugar snap peas, dried pineapple, warm spicy mint and sesame vinaigrette.

• Kitchen Philosophy: “I try to use my heritage (he’s from Mexico) with my ceviches and crudos but give them my own spin.”

• Words to Cook By: “Chef Sean Brock says it best: ‘Cooking’s fun.’ It’s a lot of fun. Just thinking about it gives me the chills.”

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Jordi Panisello

{ Executive Pastry Chef }

For Jordi Panisello, taking over the role of pastry chef of the Boca Resort is a bit of a homecoming.

It was just 18 years ago that he moved from New York to Florida for the job as assistant pastry chef at the Boca Raton Resort.

“I always wanted to come back,” he says. “I always loved this property and liked the people.

I’m very fortunate to be here.”

Since moving to Florida 18 years ago, Panisello has worked at some of the region’s finest hotels, including the Ritz-Carlton in Fort Lauderdale and The Loews Miami Beach; he also had the honor of opening The Mandarin Oriental in Miami.

Panisello is from Barcelona originally, and he got his first job in pastries when he was 14. He was studying electronics to become an engineer, and his grandfather informed him that a bakery 30 minutes away needed an apprentice.

“The hours were tough, but there was something that caught my eye, and I caught a passion for it,” Panisello remembers. “Just seeing and working with the bread—the flavors of the bread! We used to deliver it, and seeing the expressions of peoples’ faces when we’d deliver it, I knew this is what I wanted to do.”

Since taking over the position as executive pastry chef three months ago, Panisello has redone the banquet menu, brought in new seasonal desserts to all the restaurants and created fun new retail items at Serendipity.

• Signature Dish: “I have a great tiramisu at Lucca.

It’s interesting, because there’s a layer of roasted white chocolate panna cotta on top. And we roast the white chocolate in the oven, and then we make the panna cotta. So when you go into one layer you have the tiramisu or the biscuit or the mascarpone.

It’s really delicious—it’s one of the best sellers.”

• Kitchen Philosophy: “Have fun and work.

Develop and always evolve. ... Try hard—as hard as you can.”

• Words to Cook By: “The team has a lot to do with it. You spend so much time in the kitchen, and sometimes we don’t recognize them enough. We’re not enough without the team—we need to do a better job of recognizing our team—who’s on our left, who’s on our right.”

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How one long-distance couple started its Happily Ever After at the Boca Resort.

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atherine Blais and Anthony Milano came from different countries and cultures (Montreal, Canada and Chicago, U.S.A., respectively), and lived an ocean apart for an entire year of their courtship while Anthony worked overseas in London. But early in their relationship they knew they had something special. Before he left Catherine in Montreal, Anthony brought her to Chicago to meet his parents; he also showed her the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier. They were reunited a year later when Anthony accepted a

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permanent job in Montreal. The following summer, they again made a trip to Chicago for a family wedding.

“We went to Navy Pier, as we hadn’t been back since that first summer at the beginning of our relationship,” Catherine recalls. “While we were at the top of the Ferris wheel, Anthony surprised me and proposed, promising that we would never have to be apart again.”

After overcoming the challenges of a long-distance relationship, they weren’t afraid to plan their wedding from afar. They had always

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Catherine Blais and Anthony Milano on their wedding day at the Resort.

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imagined an outdoor ceremony by the water and quickly decided on the Boca Raton Resort & Club for their destination wedding. “I loved that the Resort and the Beach Club provided two completely different experiences and backdrops for our wedding: the timeless elegance and beautiful architecture of the Resort, and the modern, clean look of the Beach Club,” Catherine says.

The location has the best of both worlds, agrees the Resort’s director

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of catering, George Petrocelli. “That’s what’s so nice about the Beach Club,” he says. “You can have that understated elegance. You can feel like you’re in a historic location and have a certain level of sophistication and luxury. But it’s a fun environment, and it’s not stuffy.”

Their event had the best of both worlds as well, combining elegance and personalization and incorporating both the French and English languages into the ceremony, seating chart and menus. Anthony even

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“Our wedding was more beautiful and perfect than we could have ever dreamed.”

—Catherine Milano

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surprised his bride by writing his own vows in French (Read: He’s not a native French speaker). Personalized wedding items and favors were shipped ahead of time and set up by the staff, and as the sun set during their ceremony overlooking the ocean, Catherine couldn’t believe how lucky they were. “Our wedding was more beautiful and perfect than we could have ever dreamed,” she says.

Part of making wedding dreams come true is the ability to cater to a variety of wishes and styles. With many different venues for hosting everything from intimate on-thebeach events to large-scale, grand affairs, there really is something for every couple. Plus, there is a creative team on hand (including the culinary team and the decor, lighting and sound folks at Boca by Design) that George Petrocelli, director of catering can execute even the most quirky or over-the-top request.

“We are creating a one-of-a-kind style, experience and memory all rolled into one that begins as a single thought,” Petrocelli says. “We breathe life into that thought and individualize it for each bride and groom. They come on property, and we show them options; because of the dynamics of the property … they have several different venues to choose from all in one place, and they’re all unique. … We really can make wedding dreams come true.”

And it all starts with an amazing backdrop like one of the following.

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As always, the Resort went above and beyond— by land and by sea—to ensure that Catherine and Anthony had a wedding day they will never forget.

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An al fresco wedding

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Yacht Club

• Ideal wedding size: 100-150 guests • Why it’s unique: Its beachside location allows couples to enjoy ocean views during every aspect of their wedding (like Catherine and Anthony did)—from a poolside cabana ceremony to a reception in the Dunes Ballroom with a terrace overlooking the Atlantic. The look and style of the ballroom is also unique, with sleek lines and more modern flair, including a high-tech (and gorgeous) LED chandelier.

• Best for: Couples looking for privacy and contemporary beach ambience. Slightly apart from the Resort and situated on a secluded beach, the Boca Beach Club almost feels like an independent location.

“Because it’s more of a private venue, and you just have that one ballroom, you pretty much take ownership of the club that evening,” Petrocelli says. Add on a half-mile private beach and there’s a wonderful recipe for relaxed luxury.

• Ideal wedding size: 50-100 guests • Why it’s unique: Two ballrooms, the Amalfi and the Venetian, both have open terraces overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. “The big attribute there is the terrace, because you can make it an indoor/outdoor event,” Petrocelli says.

“You can do cigar rollers on the terrace or have after-hours hospitality and enjoy the evening looking out over the lake and some incredible yachts.”

• Best for: Sophisticated formal events.

Large, floor-to-ceiling windows and doors opening onto the terrace allow guests to appreciate the striking views of the water and yachts moored in the marina. Some couples take full advantage of the space by setting up their ceremony on the Yacht Club terrace and hosting a reception in one of the ballrooms.

The Grand Assembly Room

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Cathedral Room

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• Ideal wedding size: 100-200 guests • Why it’s unique: It’s in the heart of The Cloister area of the Resort, which was built in 1926 and designed by the property’s original architect, Addison Mizner, in the classic Spanish/Moorish style. With its gold-leafed pillars supporting tall archways and a soaring coffered ceiling, the Cathedral Room has a timeless elegance that creates a romantic setting ideal for vows exchanged in the glow of stained-glass windows. No surprise, it’s the most popular backdrop for weddings at The Resort.

• Best for: Couples seeking historic grandeur and seamless event transitions.

“We’re able to transform that room in an hour from a theater-style setting for a ceremony into a room set for a gala-style dinner,” Petrocelli says. Elements of the decor from the ceremony are repurposed for the reception, and voila! “We do this all during the cocktail reception,” he says.

“People come back into the room, and they don’t believe it’s the same room they just left. … It’s great because the whole epicenter of the event is all in one location.” And with the Cloister Rooms recently finishing a $30 million renovation, couples who choose to get married and stay here can enjoy both historic and updated luxury in the same place.

Royal Palm Ballroom • Ideal wedding size: up to 750 guests • Why it’s unique: High ceilings and crystal chandeliers give it a grand ambience, and with the adjacent spacious foyer (perfect for cocktails) accented with rich blue hues and great hall archways, the space evokes the feeling of a royal event.

• Best for: Large-scale events. With such a large, beautiful space, there really are no limitations. If you want an entire big band orchestra to perform at your wedding, this is where you can do it.

“We can support the most outrageous ideas [here],” Petrocelli says. “Surprise entertainment, huge guest lists, creative design, lighting or any type of decor.”

The Spa Garden • Ideal wedding size: 50-100 guests • Why it’s unique: With tall Italian cypress trees and lush palms surrounding the pool, spacious patio and Moorish-style architecture, the Spa makes guests feel like they are in a beautiful palace garden.

It’s a unique choice for couples who can be a little flexible about the timing.

• Best for: Smaller outdoor weddings.

“You can still have a band, DJ and dance floor and the things you expect at a wedding, but the time of day has to be right, and it has to be the right time of year for good weather. It’s a great space for food stations, too,” Petrocelli says.

“I like having Mediterranean cuisine for events there.”

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{ WEDDING TRENDS } Interactive Cuisine Lavish self-service stations keep event momentum going—everything from Champagne bars with a variety of fruit puree mix-ins and sundae bars with all the fixings to late-night bar food. For those who want to compromise, Petrocelli suggests having a traditional sit-down dinner and then having interactive dessert stations to keep the party going.

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days of our lives? #MeetTheMilanos was incorporated on the seating chart and photo booth film strips for Catherine and Anthony’s wedding so guests would remember to share photos.

Emphasis on Entertainment More couples are letting go of certain formalities and traditions (like cake cutting and garter tossing) that pause the evening’s dancing in favor of creating more of a nightclub feel. As a result, there is more importance put on the band or DJ hired.

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WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE. A grand and gracious setting. The lush beauty and vibrant spirit of Boca Raton Resort & Club provides a unique backdrop for your special celebration. Whether you dream of a historical background, a barefoot beach wedding or one with modern sophistication, you will find the perfect setting to complete your vision. A talented staff of wedding professionals, florists, designers and a world-class culinary team work together to develop the most creative solutions for your special day.

To start planning your Waldorf Wedding today, please call 561.447.3000 or visit bocaresort.com.

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ENLIGHTEN UP The Resort offers the Enlightened Lifestyle program to help members and guests elevate their health and wellness.

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ou can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural and enjoyable,” says Deepak Chopra.

The health and wellness guru couldn’t be more right—and he could very well be describing the Enlightened Lifestyle program at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

EL is an initiative that brings together the property’s health and wellness services and amenities in order to improve the health and well-being of members and guests. EL’s objective—from the spa and restaurants to fitness, golf and tennis centers—is to help people optimize wellness through education and behavioral change.

“To address the growing interest in health and wellness, the Resort launched Enlightened Lifestyle to support members’ and guests’ healthy lifestyle,” says Jodi Sullivan, senior director of fitness and wellness at the Resort. “Wellness varies by individual guest and member values, but nearly all seek some form of wellness during their stay and as part of their Resort memberships.”

Participants may enjoy special programming and activities year-round,

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including sports stretching and flexibility clinics, lectures by experts on topics ranging from women’s health to stress reduction, and consultations on setting fitness goals and safe usage of equipment.

“We really want to educate members and guests and provide them with a destination to maintain or start a healthy lifestyle,” Sullivan says.

Mindfulness—a huge component of wellness, according to Chopra—is the goal of regular meditation and yoga classes as well as specialty classes like sunrise, sunset and full-moon yoga; yoga on the beach; “hip hot” yoga on the lawn with a DJ and post-workout refreshments; candlelight yoga in the spa garden; and more. These events have become hugely popular on the property, changing with the seasons or as demand dictates.

“There are so many benefits of meditation, especially for travelers,” Sullivan says, “so we’ve really expanded our offerings in that area.”

Guests can enjoy more rigorous specialty classes in cutting-edge techniques, such as vibration power plate, TRX, functional training and more, in the improved Health Club, which recently underwent a $1 million renovation and now features all new equipment. (A beach boot camp is also in the works.) This new health club with a purpose, Sullivan says, can easily replace—and eclipse—one’s regular gym off property.

“With the state-of-the-art equipment and amazing environment, it’s a great place for members and guests to get motivated about fitness and even learn new workouts,” Sullivan says.

Even guests who are only staying at the Resort for a night or two can avail themselves of EL’s offerings thanks to its a la carte menu of services.

Through the Spa with Purpose program, for example, a guest with back pain could enjoy a massage treatment targeting areas of concern. The same goes for fitness: Guests can participate in very specific personal training programs for corrective exercise tailored to their needs.

“We really want to educate members and guests and provide them with a destination to maintain or start a healthy lifestyle.”

—Jodi Sullivan

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CUSTOM PROGRAMMING Formerly senior director of global fitness for Hilton Worldwide, Jodi Sullivan is tasked with developing customized solutions and wellness programming, utilizing her background as a competitive figure skater, certified personal trainer and NASM Fitness Nutrition Specialist—as well as her education and training in areas of corrective exercise and functional training.

“Through a collaborative approach ... we’ll bring purposeful healthy solutions to life,” says Sullivan, who is managing Enlightened Lifestyle alongside Cindi Moreno, director of spa and wellness at the Resort.

Members and guests can look forward to even more wellness events and programming from EL in the coming months, including health-related speakers, cooking demonstrations, golf and tennis clinics, spa events with mini-treatments and more.

The ultimate goal is to create an elite wellness program where members and guests can maintain their healthy routines. “From food and beverage to fitness—they can get it all at the Resort,” Sullivan says. “It’s one-stop shopping, so to speak.”

EL’s programming is “tailored to members’ and guests’ needs,” she says. “The goal is for it to be memorable, easy and personal.”

Those interested in customized EL programs are invited to call 561/347-4772.

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As Sullivan says, “nutrition is key,” and EL has introduced culinary programs throughout the property, beginning with healthy menu options at the majority of the Resort’s restaurants, denoted by special icons for easy ordering. The property’s highly skilled and experienced chefs have designed these dishes to be low in calories and fat yet high in protein, Sullivan says.

Members and guests can enjoy further nourishment at Serendipity with fresh juices, an acai and frozen yogurt bar with healthy toppings in the mornings, and a salad bar brimming with healthy proteins like salmon and shrimp in the afternoon.

“We want to help members and guests stay focused and productive throughout their day,” Sullivan says.

Another new addition is the chiropractic clinic of Dr. Ira S. Wenzel, in the newly renovated West Cloister wing of the main hotel. The boardcertified chiropractic physician specializes in sports medicine, orthopedics, musculoskeletal injuries, exercise physiology and more, focusing on the neck, back, spine, knees, hips, shoulders and ankles.

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MAKING A SPLASH The Resort’s water sports are redefining the vacation experience.

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ack in 1926, when the Boca Raton Resort & Club first opened its doors, water activities were likely limited to a leisurely boat ride or the occasional lakeside stroll. Fast-forward 90 years, and the Resort is rocking the Salt Life, from surfing and paddleboarding to the exhilarating FlowRider™ wave simulator and in-pool scuba diving lessons.

“What we’re trying to do here is bring the old and the new together,” says Richard Marin, the Resort’s pool operations director.

For visitors who come to South Florida for the water, the Resort offers a wide collection of activities. Those with a need for speed can rent one of several WaveRunners or motorboats, while others who want to catch a wave can rent a board or take lessons in one of the Resort’s surf clinics. Popular stand-up paddleboards, kayaks and Hobie Cats are available for rent, and children can enjoy a banana tube ride in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Resort’s location makes it possible to offer water-based opportunities on both the ocean and in Lake Boca Raton, which is a wide part of the Intracoastal Waterway leading to the inlet.

From left: The Resort’s famed FlowRider™ wave simulator; underwater with the PADI bubblemaker

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Water Toys & Lessons • Body boards and floats • Snorkel gear • FlowRider™ • Surfboard rentals and clinics

Kids can learn to ride the waves during a surf clinic at the Resort.

• Banana or tube rides • Stand-up paddleboard rentals and tours • Kayak tours and rentals • WaveRunner rentals and sightseeing tours • PADI Bubblemaker • Hobie catamaran rentals • Boat rentals • Beach volleyball clinics • Sand castle building

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“All of the activities offered here are what sets the Boca Raton Resort & Club apart,” says Mike Engle, an owner of Costa del Este Water Sports, which operates the Resort’s water-based activities concession. “It’s not just golf and tennis anymore.”

In fact, these days guests have more of a taste for adventure, exemplified by the wildly popular FlowRider™ dual-sided wave simulator.

“It’s an exhilarating ride,” Marin says. “It’s snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing all rolled into one.

And there’s a cool factor that comes along with the FlowRider. It creates memories.”

Riders range from children as young as 8 to guests in their 60s. Trained and certified instructors help all guests learn how to enjoy the experience; they’ll also ride along with anyone apprehensive at first, using hand-to-hand instruction or a towrope.

“By the end of the day, most people have given up their fear and are very comfortable on the FlowRider,” Marin says. He added that, “now our guests are able to have fun at the ocean and also come to the Flow House Boca to relax, while sending their children to the FlowRider.”

Not all the action is on the surface, however. The Resort also offers the PADI (Professional Association of Dive Instructors) Bubblemaker, a onehour program that introduces guests to scuba diving—in the safety of a swimming pool. “The PADI Bubblemaker program is a great way to introduce children to scuba diving,” Engle says.

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Cabana Time Looking for the ultimate luxury experience while spending time at the Boca Resort & Club’s Beach Club?

Then you’ll want to reserve one of the club’s recently upgraded luxury cabanas that come complete with a package of amenities guaranteed to make your day at the beach or the pool a memorable one.

Each cabana can accommodate up to six people, dining for four, lounge chairs, a rain shower, towel service, a flat-screen TV—you name it. But the kicker is the luxurious butler service, making it easy for guests to order meals and drinks without ever having to stray

from their comfortable oasis. The Cabana butler will cater to your evey need—from refreshing fruit platters or a cold seafood feast to chilled drinks and cocktails. It’s one of the luxury services that gives Boca Resort guests an experience they won’t forget—and redefines a day at the beach.

“The new cabana package is all-inclusive,” says pool operations director Richard Marin. “It’s designed to create a special atmosphere for those who enjoy spending their day either by the pool, the beach or just a few steps away.”

An afternoon at the cabana offers Resort guests a taste of the good life in more ways than one.

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TRENDING NOW

The new look in South Florida resort style is fresh and vibrant—with an edge.

Photography by Beth Studenberg

Hat from Club Monaco, clubmonaco.com; Prada glasses and Trina Turk pants from Mizner’s Resort Shop, Boca Raton Resort & Club; necklace, earrings and rings from Styles Boutique, Boca Raton; beaded necklace from Barbara Katz, Boca Raton; Alexis top from Bloomingdale’s; Kate Spade shoes from Footcandy, Delray Beach

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Fringed Guess top and black skirt from Lord & Taylor, Boca Raton; Gucci Horsebit bracelet and ring, Cleopatra earrings and necklace, and Temple St. Clair amulet and chain all from Altier Jewelers, Boca Raton Resort & Club; bracelet on right hand from Alene Too, Boca Raton Resort & Club; Jimmy Choo shoes from Footcandy, Delray Beach

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Top Shop bathing suit from Nordstrom, Boca Raton; shorts from Alene Too, Boca Raton Resort & Club; Reformation vest from reformation. com; boots from Footcandy, Delray Beach; bracelets on model’s right from Alene Too, Boca Raton Resort & Club; Roberto Coin Dia bangle and Pois Moi bangle from Altier Jewelers, Boca Raton Resort & Club

CENTER COURT STYLE

Woven Bugatchi shirts, $149 each, orange Bugatchi sweater, $199, braided belt

by Polo Ralph Lauren, $65, OluKai Nohea sandals, $92, Costa Del Mar sunglasses, $210, all from The Logo Shop; blue belt, $60, from the Resort’s golf pro shop

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Theory sweater, French Connection hat and Trina Turk skirt all from Lord & Taylor, Boca Raton; Sofia Webster shoes from Neiman Marcus, Boca Raton; Carven bag from carven. com; vintage Lanvin necklace, Halo diamond earrings, bracelets and rings, Cartier Ballon Bleu watch, and Gucci bamboo bracelets all from Altier Jewelers, Boca Raton Resort & Club

MODEL: Victoria G/Ford Models Inc. STYLIST: Deana Anais/Wilhelmina ART DIRECTORS: Lori Pierino, Nancy Kumpulainen HAIR & MAKEUP: Crystal Gossman @ Agency Gerard Management using Kevyn Aucoin and Arrojo STYLIST ASSISTANT: Lore Khazem PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Andrew Urban, TJ Blum

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B O C A R ATO N by Emily J. Minor

BOCA RATON: CITY WITH A HEART Beyond the glamour and the glitz is a community that cares.

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ure, we’re tanned and nice looking. (Usually.) And yes. We like tennis and golf and a night on the town. (Or, better yet, a getaway weekend at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.) But those of us who live in this fair city of 85,000 know that we also have a constant hankering for hometown goodness. PTA meetings.

Cancer runs. Galas and silent auctions to help pay for hospitals and libraries and children’s charities. Philanthropists like to say this city has a big heart. So we peeled back the layers, and—lo and behold—look at what we found.

You can’t understand Boca Raton—its urban design, its founders, its present-day lure—without understanding a bit about Addison Mizner, the brilliant and revered early 20th century architect who from day one billed Boca as a city rich with fun, sun—and wealth.

For Mizner, a peculiar man who had a misguided reputation as a grand playboy but was actually a light drinker, a devoted friend and a hard worker,

this city he designed in the mid-1920s was the perfect place to create both beauty and opportunity for him, investors, and rich Northern buyers.

And, oh, the plans he had.

Using his now trademark designs of barrel-tiled roofs, stucco walls and decorative wrought-iron accents, Mizner had wanted to build a miniVenice on this very spot—although the canals and gondolas were eventually to have gone farther west. He had already created a commerce center in Palm Beach, where he’d built the Everglades Club in 1918. That club slightly to the north was a smashing success, not just enticing members to the exclusive resort but also creating jobs for his now-famous designs.

Local workers built the columns and the tiles and the iron gates that went into his spectacular homes. The money still pouring into South Florida from the land boom, Mizner and his investors moved a bit south, eventually buying two acres of oceanfront land in Boca Raton.

There, they set up plans for a city of riches.

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From left: Addison Mizner, The Resort in its early days, and Boca before its post1960s boom

Two acres. That’s all it took.

But first, Mizner’s investors needed a place to stay. Scaling back his ultimate plan for a massive oceanfront Ritz-Carlton hotel, Mizner built a smaller—but still magnificent—hotel. It was called The Cloister Inn, and it’s where homebuyers stayed as Mizner and his team built their enchanting and intriguing new mansions.

Know what the Cloister Inn is today? The Boca Raton Resort & Club.

For those who have earnestly studied and documented Boca Raton’s founding days, Addison Mizner’s early attitudes and architecture still drive the city’s national—and international—reputation. Historians say Boca Raton pretty much broke Mizner. The Depression hit, the land boom fizzled, and Mizner died at age 61, a poor man on Palm Beach.

If only he knew how we still rave about him.

“In my opinion, the early impression of Boca Raton as a place that was all glamour and glitz started with Addison Mizner,” says Mary Csar, executive director of the Boca Raton Historical Society. “He’s the one who made us all hoity-toity.”

Through the years, that reputation of Boca Raton as being magical, upscale and even a bit snooty has worked as both blessing and curse. For starters, when the city plans events and tries to attract vendors, sponsors and attendees, no one ever has to point out where Boca is on the map.

“People certainly know where Boca is,” Csar says.

But those same outsiders also think Boca is a vacation destination, a magical place of pink—from the stucco buildings to the golf attire to the clouds at sunset.

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Csar insists she’s not kidding when she says she’s met out-of-towners “who are surprised to find out that people actually live here.”

And, boy, do they.

“There have always been just regular people who have lived in Boca, and I have to laugh when people tell me what they think of Boca, because it’s just wrong,” she says.

Boca’s public schools are some of the best in the state, if not the country, and the private schools are globally revered. Forty years ago, Boca city officials bought up 5 acres of oceanfront property, meaning that city beaches are pristine, safe and well-maintained.

Shopping is magnificent. You have to buy beautiful things somewhere.

Restaurants are on the culinary map. City parks and recreational facilities are always teeming with families and after-school sports. Family life is big here. Synagogues and churches are well connected within their neighborhoods, which means a strong charity network for those in need.

Yes, Boca is like any city and has residents in need.

The local economy is not only financed and fueled by tourism, but also through its strong business base. (Watch out, Silicon Valley.) Higher education is tops, and it’s sailing even higher. Medical services are fantastic, and philanthropists have led the way on much of that new infrastructure.

And pushing all this along are the residents who call Boca Raton home.

“It’s a fabulous place to raise a family,” Csar says. “There are great schools, great businesses. There are creative things going on.”

But before we get to that—and all the generosity that has made so much change possible—let’s understand a little bit more about Boca’s past.

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The truth of the matter is, Boca Raton was really made strong by farmers. After Henry Flagler made Palm Beach County a stop on his northsouth railroad, some of the first settlers to arrive in northern Boca Raton were Japanese farmers. This small cadre of adventurers raised, or tried to raise, vegetables. They named their community Yamato Colony, Yamato being the ancient word for Japanese.

But Florida weather, as it is wont to do, had other plans.

The fierce Florida sun, an inhospitable agent for growing crops, along with crop disease, eventually chased away most of those early settlers. Some 65 years later, George Sukeji Morikami—one of the few who stayed—donated his land to Palm Beach County. His wish? That it be preserved in memory of the Yamato Colony.

Today, it’s the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, one of the city’s finest jewels.

Real farming enterprises began to take root, if you will, in the 1930s, when migrant farm families began spending the winter months in and around Boca. One of them was Tom McMurrain, whose family began coming to the area in the 1930s. Their crop source was primarily string beans and bell peppers, and they farmed alongside some 30 or so other farming families, most of whom moved north to Georgia and North Carolina in the summer. Each Saturday during the winter months, the farmers would haul their crop to the market in Pompano Beach, where it was poked and prodded, then (hopefully) bought and

shipped to cities like New York and Chicago.

“The farmers all had big respect for each other,” McMurrain remembers now. “We were controlled by the farm—and by the weather.”

Eventually, these migrant families stayed in the area year-round, changing their crops with the seasons.

When World War II hit, the locals—not to be distracted by the enormity of war in the states and abroad—were able to collect their wits and think about how to keep war money here at home. The city’s coastal location, reasoned a few key thinkers, made it the perfect location for an Army base. The military agreed, eventually taking over the Boca Raton Club for offices, classrooms and barracks. The government eventually collected 6,000 acres from 100-plus property owners to build an airbase. During WWII, it was the only radar-training school in the country.

Seven years later, city fathers still thinking on their feet, Boca bought that same airfield, promising the federal government they’d keep it a civilian airport.

Today—you guessed it. That’s the location of the Boca Raton Airport, a facility that is state-owned and open to the public.

The stage now set—and beautifully, at that—more mainstream residents began to move here and call it home. In the postwar days, the city didn’t necessarily draw rich investors or hardworking farmers. American families began to move to Boca Raton, a trend that essentially forced the growth of schools, hospitals, businesses and tourist attractions.

The glitzy place largely known for its beautiful buildings, wealthy visitors and sparkling waters was now a thriving community.

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With all that growth came the next important chapter in city history.

Boca—that glitzy place once largely known for its beautiful buildings, wealthy visitors and sparkling ocean waters—was now a thriving community, in every sense of the word. Residents pitched in to help build the infrastructure, forming garden clubs, PTAs, and charity events for hospitals and libraries.

In 1956, Arthur Vining Davis, founder of the Aluminum Company of America, began buying real estate as the Arvida Development Corporation, setting the aesthetic tone for future development, both commercial and residential. In the early 1960s, all these hands would gather on deck to mark some major changes in the city.

One of those key players was Thomas F. Fleming, a one-time mayor and the founder of the city’s first bank, who is credited with providing the fundraising and political muscle to open Florida Atlantic University in Boca in 1964. When President Lyndon B. Johnson came to Boca for the dedication of FAU, Florida’s fifth public university, Fleming received the first Distinguished Service Award.

And then came IBM. In 1966, the company bought 550 acres of land from Arvida, built a giant circular lake—rather unheard of in those days—and began to design that not-so-little something called the personal computer.

IBM’s addition to the community was a game changer.

Thousands of new company employees made Boca their home, enrolling their kids in schools, shopping locally and buying up residences.

IBM wives quickly went to work, raising money for causes big and small.

Within 15 years, the landscape had changed drastically, and by the time IBMers introduced the first PC to the world in 1981, Boca had a new hospital, a historical society, and had even been to the U.S. Supreme Court in an expensive effort to try to slow down expansion, even just a bit, with city laws that put restrictions on growth caps.

When city fathers lost that effort, they created the Community Redevelopment Agency a few years later to take a look at its downtown and keep an encouraging eye on growth. The CRA still has an important touch on development today.

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As growth untangled, moving farther and farther west, so did residents’ needs. And so did civic pride and civic giving. Here are some key examples of our wonderful community spirit through the years: * Perhaps the most spirited and motivated organization in town is still the Junior League of Boca Raton, taking on cause after cause after cause, giving time and money to more than 15 local nonprofits—everything from the historic Sandoway House Nature Center to the Farmworkers’ Children’s Council. This group of 700-plus women knows its city, its roots and the power of its community spirit. You always thought the Junior League was a bunch of pretty women who sell their hand-me-downs at the local thrift store? Think again, good citizens. * Over the past 30 years, Boca philanthropist Christine E. Lynn has supported nursing, health care and education with what many call “an unstoppable energy.” The widow of insurance magnate Eugene M. Lynn, she is one of the city’s most notable givers. The Women’s Health & Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital—a stone’s throw from the Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute at the hospital—was made possible after her $10 million donation. Always thinking of those before her, Lynn endowed that money in honor of Gloria Drummond, a woman who half a century ago led the drive to build Boca’s hospital.

Red Reef Park * Boca’s favorite son, Dick Schmidt, and his wife, Barbara, are the largest private donors to Florida Atlantic University, and the family name is everywhere on campus: the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, the

Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and the Schmidt Gallery. The Schmidts’ philanthropy to FAU started in the early 1970s, when Dick Schmidt’s parents, Charles and Dorothy Schmidt, donated $3 million to endow two professorships and 80 scholarships.

In 2014, the family foundation gave $16 million, the largest donation in FAU history, to build The Schmidt Family Complex for Academic and Athletic Excellence.

And there are others of great note: Former Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus, whose $25 million grant led to the Marcus Neuroscience Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital; businessman Bobby Campbell, long known for giving back to Boca, who funded a new soccer stadium at Lynn University; and Countess de Hoernle, whose community donations have—at least by some estimates—totaled more than $40 million through the years.

Yes, from working parents who support their kids’ classrooms with in-kind donations of paper, books and tissues to the wealthy who are more capable of giving sizable endowments, Boca’s sense of community is real. Very real.

“We’ve always had citizens who care about this community, and they’ve always gone out of their way to make it better,” says Csar, our go-to historian who has lived in Boca Raton for nearly 40 years.

“These are the people who have always seen the future.”

And they’re still out there, keeping watch.

“We’ve always had citizens who care about this community, and they’ve always gone out of their way to make it better.”

—Mary Csar, Boca Raton Historical Society

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The Boca Raton Resort & Club is its own vacation village.

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Ninety years later, the Boca Raton Resort & Club is synonymous with the bustling city that bears its name. And like Boca Raton itself, it’s a fully functioning, autonomous community whose nearly 2,000 employees work tirelessly to keep Mizner’s dream intact.

BY THE NUMBERS We go beyond the pink facades to meet a few of the team members who keep the Resort’s • Acres: 356 gears turning, its towels • Square footage: 3.5 million laundered and its restaurants buzzing.

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• Rooms: 1,047 • Employee nationalities: 27 If the Resort is a city within a city, then • Laundry facility: Six washers and Kurt Graham is its four dryers (industrial-size), 40,000 city manager. As the pounds laundered daily in season director of property • Housekeepers: 90 in season operations, he handles • Valet services: 60,000 cars per year the departments of • Annual electric bill: $6 million engineering, landscaping, fleet maintenance and telecommunications. His team, which includes about 100 employees, treks up to 12 miles a day onsite.

Like ninjas, they do their best work when they go unnoticed by the members and visiting public. On the day of my visit with Graham, the Resort’s main entrance was discretely closed, an unusual but necessary decision made to accommodate a massive maintenance project: replacing the two 250-ton, 20-year-old cooling towers that sit atop the pink tower.

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THE RESORT

Kevin Ives

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{ Dining } • Number of onsite bars and restaurants: 13 • Employees in bar and restaurant division: about 500 • Breakfasts served daily: 500 to 600 during season • Eggs cracked per day: approximately 4,000 • Coffee brewed daily: hundreds of gallons

“Logistically, a lot of hands touch [this],” Graham says.

“It’s rooms, because guests get affected. It’s banquets, because nobody can be in the Great Hall area in case something were to fall; it’s convention services, security, executive offices and pool operations, because the pool and FlowRider both had to shut down. It touches every department within the 1,800 employees that we have.

“For a property this large, even though it looks like it’s very calm and organized—and it is—there’s always something else happening behind the scenes,” he adds.

“And 98 percent of the time, I would say that none of that affects the guests.”

The success of the invisible maintenance and cleanup of the property is thanks to Graham’s efficient and specialized staff. He has plumbers, air conditioning technicians, boiler technicians, laundry technicians, carpenters, upholsterers, painters, general mechanics, welders and more, on call at any time. “In order to run a facility of this size, it has to be self-sustaining,” he says.

Two office administrators handle the specific requests, which are filtered through a Web-based app and dispatched immediately to the appropriate technician.

“Team members are using iPads to receive work orders or take pictures and put notes into the system, so now they can see guests’ names before they get to the room. It’s changed dramatically our response times to get to guests. We’re getting to every guest’s call within 15 minutes 70 percent of the time.

“Coordinating the efforts of our staff to maintain and beautify the Resort is sometimes taxing, but the team works like a family,” he adds.

“We’re always looking after one another to make sure the guests are happy and that the Resort is better today than it was yesterday.”

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• Range of meal prices: $5 tacos at Ocean Bar to the $1,000 Golden Opulence Sundae at Serendipity

As the Resort’s director of bars and restaurants, Kevin Ives likens his workspace, which covers dining facilities from one end of the Resort to the other, to a football field. Only he wouldn’t deign to call himself the quarterback.

“I use the analogy of block and tackle. My job is to run 10 feet down the field as [the chefs] have got the ball, and remove things in their path so they can get to the end zone,” Ives says. “Some of those things may be helping them identify a problem and then working with them on how to correct it, and removing the proverbial white noise from their life so they can focus on the things that are most important. I’m the bulldozer out in front of them.”

Ives always has a lot on his plate, so to speak. To achieve functional harmony with such a broad array of dining establishments—from the casual comfort food of Shaka Bar and Grill to the fine Japanese cuisine of Morimoto—he relies heavily on chefs he reveres, allowing them to be

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getting in his or her car and going to Whole Foods “masters of their domains” with little interference. to shop for the specific items that family needs. We While these culinary artists innovate in the

BY THE NUMBERS had some members who wanted to rush through kitchens, Ives is, like most of the Resort’s top brass, dinner because they needed to buy milk. The server sweating the small stuff in an effort to maintain the got two gallons of our milk, brought it to the table, exemplary qualities of the Waldorf Astoria brand. and said, ‘We’re going to take care of you, enjoy • Convention center space: 150,000 “It’s not just meeting [diners’] expectations but your dinner.’ square feet thinking several more moves ahead on the chess “With the sheer volume that we do at the hotel, board: What has the guest not thought of? We • Conventions per year: approximately it’s easy to just treat people like another number. try to focus on all those little individual points,” 350 Ives says. “Chef Andy [Roenbeck] and I may be But to treat every single one of those people as an • Catered events per year (weddings, sitting and having lunch at the restaurants to individual takes a tremendous amount of effort.” anniversary parties, bar mitzvahs): audit them. We’re listening to what the volume 1,000 of the music is. Is the lighting the right amount • Event venues: five (Beach Club, the of dim? Are the uniforms just perfect? It’s the sum Tower, the Yacht Club, the Cloister Nancy Sergio, the Resort’s director of catering of all of those things that makes the restaurant Inn, the Bungalows) and convention services, has been with the property experience what it is. for more than 30 years, and during that time she’s • Annual Resort revenue from “We want them to walk away not just saying, conventions and events: $45 million seen it all. She’s hosted weddings for hundreds of I paid x amount of dollars and it was worth it. guests, and she’s hosted weddings for two. When We want them going, ‘Wow. That was amazing. I guests want to host their convention at sea, she’ll didn’t see that coming.’” call the yacht broker; when they want a giant Achieving that higher level of customer appreciation sometimes pachyderm center stage at their wedding, she phones the animal broker. means adjusting to unexpected circumstances.

“Some of our Indian weddings bring in elephants,” she says. “We did “Taking ‘no’ out of the vocabulary is a really tricky thing to do,” Ives says. a corporate event, called Over the Hump Day, that wanted to bring in a “[If] we have a guest coming in and their child has a food allergy, our chef is

{ Conventions & Events }

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{ Giving Back } It could happen to anyone. When an employee at the Boca Raton Resort & Club—let’s call him Jason—lost his home in a fire, it wasn’t just the real estate that went asunder. He lost all of his possessions for himself, his wife and his two children, who suddenly didn’t have a pair of clean clothes.

That’s where the Boca Resort’s CARE Fund came to Jason’s rescue.

Established in 2011 as a way for fellow team members to fill gaps left by state and federal assistance, the CARE Fund began as a series of fundraising events, such as garage sales and T-shirt sales, but “we have gone above and beyond that,” says Betsy Lopez-Gonzalez, human resources manager at the Resort.

Today, employees can request payroll deductions to support the fund, and in a company with 1,800 employees, even just a dollar per paycheck goes a long way. When an unforeseen crisis like Jason’s tore his life apart, the CARE fund helped him put it back together.

“The hearts of our team members are amazing,” LopezGonzalez says. “We provided food, clothing, furniture and helped find a new apartment, so that when he was able to find a new place to live, he didn’t have to worry about, ‘where are my kids going to sleep,’ or ‘how do I dress my kids to go to school?’

Our culture and our values focus on respect and taking care of each other. We strive to be better today than yesterday, and we strongly believe in the power to make a Betsy Lopez-Gonzalez difference in someone’s life.”

The Resort’s team members also give back in the following ways: • Volunteering with Boca Helping Hands • Working with Gulfstream Goodwill Project Search to provide job training for disabled youth • Participating in charity walk-a-thons • Contributing to Florence Fuller in its efforts to supply backpacks for underprivileged children • Organizing a winter toy drive for kids at HomeSafe • Providing free tennis lessons for children enrolled in the Boys and Girls Clubs For more on the philanthropic efforts of Resort team members, visit bocaresort.com/careers.

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camel on a beach. We’ll do Harley parties. Our coolest event is Rock the Block, a big New Year’s Eve block party, that starts at 501 and goes past the convention center. People book a room just to come.

“The fact that it’s private and exclusive” makes the Resort an ideal location for conventions and events, Sergio adds. “A lot of people find that mysterious—it’s like forbidden fruit. You can’t have it otherwise.

From a corporate standpoint, there’s a sense of security, of safety.”

Sergio’s department includes hundreds of employees, and she works closely with Boca by Design’s Lisa Coccoli, whose resident team of 57 is responsible for the floral arrangements, decor, music and entertainment at Resort events. She prides her company’s ability to customize events to guests’ and members’ desires, from a “Bangkok in Boca” party or a “Pirates of the Caribbean”-themed shindig to beach Olympics and paddleboard yoga.

“Other companies tend to put out packages with prefab ideas or party concepts,” Coccoli says. “But if you went to a bar mitzvah a month ago, you don’t want to see the same caricature artist or the same activities that the other one did. I have five designers who do the sales part of it; they are constantly having to keep up with the trends to have the edge over the next company.”

Even though Coccoli handles more than 1,000 events per year and has the mechanics of event management down to a science, she still encounters requests that surprise her, and she tries to make possible even the wildest of ideas—from flying Elvises diving into the pool to literal dancing bears.

“You have to discover what the property is willing to bear when you have the events,” she says. “We were trying to have a bar mitzvah boy be flown in on a helicopter, but we were having trouble landing him on a pad that’s safe enough that the wind will not incur damage to the party,” she says.

As a compromise, the family “settled” for a Jet Ski arrival instead.

Ninety years ago, Addison Mizner helped put Boca Raton on the luxury and hospitality maps with his Cloister Inn, which later became the Boca Raton Club, which later became the Boca Raton Resort & Club. For nearly a century, this standard-setting property—which happens to be the oldest extant business in Boca Raton—has been inextricably linked with the development and aesthetics of the city itself. It’s no surprise that this jewel of a property is also a key focus area for the Boca Raton Historical Society, which hosts bimonthly tours of the Resort from January through May (visit bocahistory.org to sign up for one).

“We have some well-trained volunteer tour guides, who have a lot of experience and energy,” says Historical Society curator Susan Gillis. “You view primarily the historic sections of the hotel and the features that are still intact, as well as some of the dramatic additions that have happened over the years, like the Tower. They also point out some of the really fun

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BY THE NUMBERS

{ History } • Year of construction: 1926 old furniture that survives—the Mizner Industries of very historic architects involved in that part of • Original price tag for purchasing the items—and the importance of this landmark in the hotel.

Boca Resort (then the Cloister Inn) in the community.”

• One legend is that Mizner painted it pink 1927: $71,000 Then there’s the 90 years’ worth of legends and because it was the color of the dawn. Mizner historical anecdotes affiliated with the Resort. Gillis didn’t paint it pink. Mr. Schine painted it pink. It • Year the hotel was painted its iconic shared a few of them with Mizner’s Dream. was real trendy in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s—all pink: 1950 • The principal legend is that when you come into of Mr. Schine’s hotels were pink. I don’t think • Cost of 1991 renovation to the the main entrance of the historic part of the hotel, Mizner’s hotel was painted at all; I believe it was a property: $11 million and you see the fountain with the slave girl statue stained stucco. What’s fun is that the hotel’s pink • Total amount spent on renovations: and go into the main lobby, the staff call that definitely influenced the whole town. $220 million historic part of the hotel the Cloister. But in point • Another fun legend is that during World War of fact, the only part that Addison Mizner ever II, the hotel served its patriotic duty and was the designed is the easternmost wing of that hotel. headquarters for the Boca Raton Army Airfield for The lobby that is now all white was designed by Schultze and Weaver. about two years. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of young cadets They built the Breakers in Palm Beach, and the Biltmore—so they weren’t or officers stationed there. The cadets, when they were training, would slackers. Most people, including staff, don’t realize that there are two sets pass by the statue of the slave girl, and salute her. They called her the Boca Lady. It was probably the most glamorous barracks in all of the U.S.A. I have some rave reviews by soldiers who stayed there, who are from places like Vermont and Wisconsin. So this was a dream come true in February.

• Another legend about the hotel is the Cloister of the Cloister Inn. That’s the loggia that overlooks the Cloister Garden and looks out onto Lake Boca, at the east side of the hotel. When it was built, it was directly on the water. When they added the Tower, they extended the sea wall. That is a part of the hotel that Mr. Mizner designed. And there’s these gothic columns there with figures on them. One of the legends is that Mizner’s workmen installed them upside down, because they’re top-heavy. But that’s not true, because if you look at them, they have lions and griffins, and if they were upside down they’d be standing on their heads.

• A lot of famous golf pros are associated with the hotel, like Sam Snead and Tommy Armour. The first Virginia Slims tennis tournament, which made women’s tennis back in the day, was played at the hotel. Little Chrissie Evert, who was still an amateur, beat Billie Jean King in a very famous match.

Clockwise from top: the Resort in earlier And she couldn’t claim her prize, because she wasn’t a pro yet. days; Susan Gillis; a postcard of the Resort

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“The entire Concours team is comprised of a group of about 200 volunteers who dedicate their personal time to the planning and execution of the event,” says Brian Quail, president/CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County.

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Saturday features the black-tie optional Gala Dinner Auction & Show at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

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Guests also will enjoy the presentation of the Automotive Lifetime Achievement Awards to Rita & Rick Case of Rick Case Automotive Group and Stephen Cannon, president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA. And back by popular demand will be a stellar performance by legendary comedian, television host and car collector extraordinaire Jay Leno. Previous performers have included Wayne Brady, Bob Newhart, Dana Carvey, Howie Mandel and Dennis Miller.

Sunday concludes the weekend of festivities with an Automobile & Motorcycle Exhibition that spans all eras on the newly renovated and expanded showfield at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Car and motorcycle fanatics from around the world experience an automotive showcase like no other, featuring 200 of the finest collector cars and motorcycles from around the country. An expert panel of judges will select the finest vintage, antique, classic and exotic vehicles based on period, presentation and overall style.

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Once the show kicks off, guests are invited to walk through a series of exciting vendor tents, including the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance tent, which offers hats, T-shirts and commemorative Concours program magazines, posters and pins from previous events and this year’s Concours.

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Spectacular Double Lot Courtyard Estate with Total 5,842 sqft. Resort Style Pool and Spa, Gazebo and Guest House. Soaring Living Room Ceiling with Fireplace, Master Suite on the First Floor, Custom Wall Unit in the Family Room with 80 inch and Surround Sound.

All Newer Roof and A/C and Many, Many More Upgrades. CALL MARK BARONE 561-235-6801

Once in a generation a trophy lot like this becomes available! Don’t miss out and purchase this beautiful home as is for 3.995M or custom build for 6.995M. 270’ of the most precious waterfront imaginable. Saturnia marble floors, newer kitchen, baths & landscaping. Huge pool and spa & so much more! $3,995,000 Build new contemporary or build to suit with premier builder Jag Design and Development 6000sf for $6.995M CALL AL GIACHETTI 561-702-1130

Spectacular Lakefront Custom 8 Bedroom Mansion in all of Addison Reserve Country Club. Two Sweeping Butterfly Staircase, Luxurious First Floor Master Suite with Exercise Room, His and Hers Walk in Closets Overlooking the Resort Style Pool and Spa, Two Story Wood Paneled Library, Awesome Movie Theatre, Approx. 10,734 Total Square Feet. CALL ARI ALBINDER 561-702-0413

New State of the Art Ultra Luxurious Oceanfront Townhome. Over 6100 sqft with 5 Bedrooms, 7 1/2 Baths, Media Room and 3 1/2 Car Garage.

Gated and Secure Community of Town Homes Features 200ft of Beachfront in Prestigious Highland Beach. Media room, Viking Kitchen with European Cabinetry, Infinity Edge pool, Wood and Marble Floors, Glass Elevator to all Floors. Rooftop Patio with Fireplace and Hot Tub. Looks like a private mansion, with the convenience and economy of a small condo HOA is only $800 a month. Unheard of! CALL AL GIACHETTI 561-702-1130

BOCA RATON SPECTACULAR DEEPWATER ESTATE Completely Rebuilt in 2001! Luxurious Suites, 3 Bath + Office,Huge Master, 2 Car Garage, Vaulted Ceilings! Minutes to the Intracoastal & Ocean!

Best Home for the Price on the Market! $1,399,000!

CALL JED WEAVER, WATERFRONT EXPERT & RELOCATION SPECIALIST 954-817-2757

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Spectacular Deepwater Inside Point Lot. Showplace! 2 Docks for 2 Large Yachts & Resort Style Pool!

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Spectacular, Designer Owned, Private Beachside Dream Home with Multiple High End Designer Finishes.

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Spectacular Deepwater Inside Point Lot. Gourmet Kitchen, Southern Exposure, Beautiful Pool. Walk to the Beach!

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Magnificent, Completely Remodeled, Direct Oceanfront Estate in Exclusive Highland Beach. This house is located within a very Private, 24 hour guarded Community among 11 Residences. This property has been completed remodeled by world renowned designer Marc Michaels. The interior features a state of the art theater room, private gym, elevator, private pool and jacuzzi, direct beach access.

The finished include custom lighting, onyx flooring, and a custom marble staircase. Office/Den can be converted to a 5th bedroom.

Hurricane Windows Throughout. This property is a Must See! Listed for $6.995m. CALL DAVID LEE 561-212-4246

Spectacular Custom 6BR plus Office on a Quiet Street. Master Suite boasts 3 customized Walk in Closets, Extra Large Laundry Room w/Cabinets, Upstairs Loft and 4 En-Suite Bedrooms also with Professional Closets. Enjoy Outdoor living space with a Stunning Backyard Perfect to entertain with Privacy and Morakami Park Views. Newer Marble Pavers, Pool & Spa Covered Patio w/Stainless Built in Grill. This Immaculate home also has 40k Generator, Accordion Shutters & New Paint! 24Hr Manned Gated, Tennis Courts, Fitness Center has Best BOCA A+ Schools A Wonderful Place to raise a family! This one is a Gem! List Price: $990,000 CALL JODI SCHULEFAND 561 901-3373 OR LISA LIPSKY 561-706-3139

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Suite 901 Tower II Ocean & Intracoastal Views $1,799,000

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Suite 1609 Tower III Panoramic Views $1,700,000 Furnished

Suite 810 Tower II Direct Intracoastal Views, $1,675,000

Suite 1203 Tower II Ocean & Intracoastal Views $1,350,000

AMAZING LUXURY HOMES IN THE SKY STARTING AT $540,000 UP TO $6,495,000 PENTHOUSES Toscana in nestled between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean in idyllic Highland Beach, a magnificent three-tower gated community renowned for its magnificent setting, opulent residences & wealth of recreational amenities. The community is Mediterranean-style classic with a private Ocean Club directly on the ocean. Other recreational amenities include three heated resortstyle pools, private deeded beach, two har-tru tennis courts. Poolside & beachside beverage services, barbecue area, each of the three Toscana towers offer a security-staffed lobby, on-site fitness, business center, billiard lounge & party room. On-site professionals in addition to the 24-hour manned security entrance and lobbies include concierge and valet professionals. Vincent Morea has sold over 250 luxury condominium residences throughout Highland Beach, Boca Raton & Delray Beach. Mizner Grande Realty and Vincent Morea’s world-wide marketing will obtain you top dollar for your luxury condominium.

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Mizner Grande Realty, LLC 155 NE Spanish River Blvd Boca Raton, FL 33431 561 702-0413 cell 561 393-7000 office www.MiznerGrandeRealty.com Find Your Dream Home on Our Website Today!

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Real Estate Book, the South Florida Real Estate Guide, as well as TV ads, movie theatres and tremendous Worldwide Online Marketing reaching over 800,000 unique monthly visitors, 200 countries and qualified buyers locally, internationally and worldwide.

The duPont REGISTRY and our WorldWide Marketing approach to 54 Countries has allowed Mizner Grande Realty to obtain Top Dollar for their sellers by exposing their properties worldwide.

Their winning team of 65 Elite Superstar Agents will market your property locally, globally and internationally to the most qualified buyers.

For more information, call the office at (561) 393-7000, or Ari Albinder, Broker-Owner, on his cell (561) 702-0413.

Mizner Grande Realty is located at 155 NE Spanish River Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33431. Take a Virtual Tour of their Magnificent Properties at www. miznergranderealty.com

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ri Albinder, Broker-Owner, President and Founder of Mizner Grande Realty is a Top Real Estate Broker. Mizner Grande Realty is Celebrating $1.6 Billion Dollars in Sales and is one of South Florida’s Leading Powerhouse Real Estate firms, specializing in luxury homes and luxury condominium sales in Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Gulfstream, Hillsboro Mile, Manalapan, Ocean Ridge, Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point, the Las Olas area and south to Miami Beach.

Mizner Grande Realty has negotiated over $1.6 billion dollars in real estate sales in South Florida, and their successful approach to global and international marketing includes exposure in: Mizner’s Dream (the Official Magazine of The Boca Raton Resort and Beach Club), duPont REGISTRY (Around The World to 54 Countries), Homes & Land of the Palm Beaches, Boca/Delray Lifestyle Magazine, Boca Raton Magazine, Delray Beach Magazine, Boca Club Life, The

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