The Related Group and its partners scored zoning approval Wednesday to develop 418 apartments at Marina Village in Riviera Beach.
The Riviera Beach City Council approved the zoning change in a 3-to-2 vote, bringing Related Urban Development Group, BH Group and Tezral Partners one step closer toward building Gallery at Marina Village, a 531,000-square-foot project at 1200-1300 Broadway on 2.5 acres owned by the Riviera Beach Community Redevelopment Agency.
The Related Group-led group secured a 99-year lease to construct a massive high-rise in June 2023, but it still needed zoning changes allowing heights up to 20 stories.
The market-rate project will consist of 190 two-bedroom units, 152 one-bedrooms, 38 studios, 38 three-bedrooms and a nine-level parking garage with 3,300 square feet of retail and 3,000 square feet of offices facing the U.S. 1/Broadway thoroughfare.
It’s part of the redevelopment of Marina Village, an 80-acre area near the Intracoastal Waterway, just north of the Port of Palm Beach, which now consists of a marina, Bicentennial Park, Rafiki-Tiki Restaurant, and an event space the city uses for public meetings.
Gallery at Marina Village will be built beside Residences at Marina Village, Related Urban and Tezral Partners’ eight-story, 149-unit affordable and workforce housing project that’s under construction. The apartments will be reserved for households making between 30 percent and 110 percent of Palm Beach County’s area median income.
The city’s planning and zoning board pushed Related and its partners in February to include some workforce housing at Gallery at Marina Village. However, no mention of a workforce housing element was mentioned in city documents related to the rezoning.
Other projects planned along Riviera Beach’s Broadway corridor include a 508-unit condo project proposed by Boca Raton-based SobelCo. New York-based Exact Capital received approval for an 18-story Riviera Gateway project, and Forest Development can move forward with its 25-story Oculina project.
North Palm Beach-based Forest Development is in negotiations to acquire 2.2 acres at 1851 Broadway from the city and CRA for a future $325 million residential project.
A team led by Related Group is competing with Forest Development and Sonnenblick Development for the right to build on 12 acres at Marina Village near the waterfront. The city council is slated to vote today, following delays, including the sudden cancellation of a Feb. 25 CRA meeting soon after the FBI reportedly subpoenaed records related to the bid. A scheduled vote on May 13 was called off, after the three development teams made presentations, due to the absence of two council members.
Present at the May 20 meeting, both Lanier and Miller-Anderson cast dissenting votes against the rezoning of Gallery’s development site.
“I just want to put on the record again that I have reservations about all of the large project that we have in progress,” Miller-Anderson said prior to her vote. “We need to take into consideration about how much traffic we are adding to our streets. That is kind of where I am right now.”