Retailers on Peruvian Avenue in Palm Beach are dismayed by a buildup of portable toilets and construction materials resulting from the Worth Avenue construction project that began yesterday. One retailer, jeweler Adele Kahn, has started to circulate a petition between other businesses on the avenue to formally object to using the street as a kind of storage area for Worth Avenue building work. According to Burkhardt Construction, the builder for the project, it has a permit to store materials and other supplies in parking spaces on Peruvian. [Palm Beach Daily News] Comments

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From left: Heidi Cole, who was brought in to expand Mirsky Cole & Company this year, Jonathan Duerr, a recent Fite Shavell & Associates hire and Charlotte Curran, who was brought on by Brown Harris Stevens this month

Palm Beach brokers had a busy 2009, if not in terms of sales, then in terms of moving. Mergers, high profile departures and hirings as well as expansion all characterized a year that saw lots of market drama.

At the start of 2009, the Mirsky Realty Group brought Heidi Cole into the company and expanded its operations. Now called Mirsky Cole & Company, it has 79 agents in two Palm Beach offices and one Jupiter location.

Sheri and Paul Reback, whose family-owned company has serviced high-end properties in North Palm Beach for 35 years, bought an Engel & Voelkers franchise and converted that firm’s North Palm Beach office, with eight agents, in late 2008. Then, they bought a Palm Beach franchise and opened an office on Peruvian Avenue with three agents in April 2009. [more]