Boca Raton, Florida Real Estate Agent - Debbie Sanacore
Debbie Sanacore is one of the top real estate agents in the West Palm Beach area and prides herself on providing service that is nothing less than excellent. She makes a point in every transaction to satisfy her customers needs at all times. As a result of Debbie's time and effort she is known as "a customer service expert," and strives to perpetuate 100% customer satisfaction with every transaction.
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Boca Raton Facts, History, and Local Events
Boca Raton, in Palm Beach County, is a community on the shoreline, located between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. It epitomizes the charm and affluence of the perfect Florida lifestyle, with its small town feel and pretty Mediterranean Revival architecture. As of the year 2000, the city was home to some 75,000 people, which had already gone up to 87,000 by 2006. However, some 200,000 people actually use a Boca Raton postal address, and some 350,000 people – residents and visitors -- are actually in the city on any given day. Boca Raton is the biggest city, considering both population and land area, to exist between West Palm Beach, in Palm Beach County, and Pompano Beach, in Broward County. It also has some of the most expensive, and exclusive, gated communities in the nation.
Residents and visitors can enjoy its 1500 acres of parks, making it seem so much like an idyllic rural community. Not only has it got miles and miles of hiking paths, it offers the sun worshipper, and swimmers and snorkelers, miles of tropical sundrenched beaches. The community was designed by architect Addison Mizner, who set out to design a world class resort community that has been booming ever since. its combination of beaches, golf courses, and world class cuisine, makes Boca Raton a preferred vacation destination for all ages, from around the world. For residents, old and new, the community offers quiet family oriented neighborhoods, good schools that rank well nationally, charming and eclectic shops, and many and exciting sport and recreation options.
Boca Raton means Mouse Mouth in Spanish. Historically, boca is still used to denote a mouth, or inlet. As for how the community got associated with the name for mouse, ratón was often used by sailors to talk about rocks that frayed or gnawed at ships’ cables. In the 1900's, some of the land to the west of the city was converted into pineapple plantations by the Japanese farmers of the Yamato colony. However, most of this land was confiscated During World War II, to site the Boca Raton Army Air Force Base to train crews for B-29 bombers. Some of the airbase land later became a part of the Florida Atlantic University grounds, and some of the old airfields are still used as parking lots. Another part of the airbase went on to become the Boca Raton Airport. Some of the original Japanese heritage associated with Boca Raton is preserved in the Morikami Museum, the Japanese Gardens, and street names. The city was incorporated in 1925, amid a time of great prosperity and the Florida land boom.
Boca Raton development has focused on the western parts of the city, and the spurt begun in the 1960's has continued through the 1980's and 1990's. The mall area at Town Center and the unincorporated area to the west of the city are almost totally built out. Since 1999, there has been a strong drive to redevelop these areas, beginning with the redevelopment of Town Center by the Simon Property Group. Downtown revitalization continues today as new eight or ten story mixed-use buildings continue to come up, and many more are planned. This drive has benefited both the downtown, as well as the surrounding areas. A strict development code is in place, and enforced, specifying and limiting the size and types of the commercial buildings that can be constructed, the building signs and advertisements that may be put up inside the city limits. No billboards are permitted within city limits, and business signs have to be below a prescribed limit. The strict and well implemented development code has eliminated from the city the harsh glaring signs and the forests of billboards that are so much a part of ordinary urban living. Many of the major thoroughfares in Boca Raton have no large signs or advertisements, and the city has beautified them with significant landscaping instead. Add to this its general affluence, and the high income families, and Boca Raton is one of the nicest places to call home.
