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Boca Raton, Florida City of Boca Raton Mizner Park is a downtown attraction in Boca Raton's financial district.
Mizner Park is a downtown attraction in Boca Raton's financial district.
Official seal of Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton is positioned in the US Boca Raton - Boca Raton Settled (Boca Raton Settlement) Circa 1895 Boca Raton (/ bo k r to n/; Spanish: [ boka ra ton]) is the southernmost town/city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, first incorporated on August 2, 1924 as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925.
Enumeration Bureau was 93,235. However, approximately 200,000 citizens with a Boca Raton postal address reside outside its municipal boundaries. Such areas include newer developments like West Boca Raton.
Boca Raton is positioned 43 miles (69 km) north of Miami and is a principal town/city of the Miami urbane area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 citizens at the 2015 census.
Boca Raton is home to the chief campus of Florida Atlantic University and the corporate command posts of Office Depot, ADT, Lynn University and Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Town Center Mall, an upscale shopping center in Central Boca Raton, is the biggest indoor mall in Palm Beach County.
Another primary attraction to the region is Boca Raton's downtown, known as Mizner Park.
Still today, Boca Raton has a strict evolution code for the size and types of commercial buildings, building signs, and advertisements that may be erected inside the town/city limits.
1.1 Pronunciation of Boca Raton 3 Greater Boca Raton The initial name "Boca de Ratones" appeared on eighteenth-century maps associated with an inlet in the Biscayne Bay region of Miami.
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the term was mistakenly moved north to its current locale on most maps and applied to the inland waterway from the closed inlet north for 8.5 miles (13.7 km), which was called the "Boca Ratones Lagoon." The word "ratones" appears in old Spanish maritime dictionaries referring to "rugged rocks or stony ground on the bottom of some ports and coastal outlets, where the cables rub against." Therefore, the abridged translation defining "Boca de Ratones" is "a shallow inlet of sharp-pointed rocks which scrape a ship's cables." Residents of the town/city have kept the pronunciation of Boca Raton similar to its Spanish origins.
In particular, the "Raton" in "Boca Raton" is pronounced as /r to n/ freshwater /r t n/.
See also: Timeline of Boca Raton, Florida North Boca Raton, Florida West Boca Raton, Florida The region today known as "Boca Raton" was originally occupied by the Tequesta tribe, a Native American citizens that occupied an region along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. What Spanish voyagers called "Boca de Ratones" was originally positioned to the south, in present-day Biscayne Bay in Miami.
By mistake since the 19th century, mapmakers moved this locale to the north and began referring to the city's lake, today known as Lake Boca Raton, as "Boca Ratone Sounde." The region was largely uninhabited after the Indigenous citizens were cleared from the region by the Spanish and the British.
In the city's early history amid the Florida territory boom of the 1920s, a several investors were interested in turning Boca Raton into a resort town.
He first constructed his Administrative Buildings and a small hotel to home interested investors. His Ritz-Carlton Cloister Inn was assembled in 1926, later retitled the Boca Raton Resort & Club, and is one of the only "5 star" hotels positioned in Florida.
During World War II, much of their territory was confiscated and used as the site of the Boca Raton Army Air Force Base, a primary training facility for B-29 bomber crews and radar operators.
Much of the Boca Raton Army Airfield was later donated to Palm Beach County and became the grounds of Florida Atlantic University.
Boca Raton Airport's runway was once part of the initial airbase, and is still active to this day.
Boca Raton was the site of two now vanished amusement parks, Africa U.S.A.
There were no fences separating the animals from the tourists. It is now the Camino Gardens subdivision one mile west of the Boca Raton Hotel.
Originally situated in unincorporated Palm Beach County, the site was controversially took in into Boca Raton almost a year following its dedication in 1970. For instance, the old Boca Raton Mall, a shopping mall in the downtown area, was beginning to experience higher vacancy, and occupancy by marginal tenants, owing to the opening of Town Center at Boca Raton west of the town/city in 1980.
Palmetto Park Road and Mizner Boulevard intersection in Boca Raton.
In 1991, the new downtown outside shopping and dining center, Mizner Park, was instead of over the site of the old Boca Raton Mall.
As evolution continued to focus to the west of the town/city in the 1980s and 1990s, the mall region known as Town Center at Boca Raton became the geographic center of what is referred to as West Boca Raton, though this mall was not took in into the town/city until 2004.
Panoramic view of a portion of the Intracoastal Waterway in downtown Boca Raton Panoramic view of a portion of the Intracoastal Waterway in downtown Boca Raton Main article: West Boca Raton A majority of postal Boca Raton lies outside of the actual town/city limits.
This large unincorporated region to the west of the town/city limits is encompassed in the Boca Raton mailing address and small-town telephone calling area.
Many of these well-to-do communities are large enough to be designated as census-designated places, including Boca Del Mar and Boca Pointe, geographically in Central Boca Raton, with Avalon at Boca Raton, Boca Falls, Boca Winds, Cimarron, Hamptons at Boca Raton, Mission Bay, Loggers' Run, The Polo Club Boca Raton and polo club movers, Sandalfoot Cove, and Whisper Walk as West Boca Raton.
On November 2, 2004, the voters of the Via Verde Association, Waterside, Deerhurst Association (Boca South), Marina Del Mar Association, Rio Del Mar Association (both originally Boca Del Mar communities), and Heatherwood of Boca Raton Condominium Association allowed annexation into the Boca Raton town/city limits, increasing the town/city land region to 29.6 square miles (77 km2).
Pearl City is a neighborhood in Boca Raton, immediately north of downtown.
The neighborhood was originally platted on May 30, 1915 for the blue-collar African Americans working at the Boca Raton Resort and similar establishments, on region farms, in construction, and various other jobs. See also: List of mayors of Boca Raton, Florida The City of Boca Raton has a Council-Manager form of government. The Mayor of Boca Raton has been chosen through a direct election since 1978. The offices of the town/city council and the mayor, presently Mayor Susan Haynie, Deputy Mayor Robert S.
Boca Raton, seen from the International Space Station.
Boca Raton is a "principal city" (as defined by the Enumeration Bureau) of the Miami urbane area.
Approximately 1 sq mi is positioned on the barrier island Deerfield Beach Island (DBI), also colloquially known as Deerfield Cay. Like most South Florida cities, Boca Raton has a water table that does not permit building basements, but there are a several high points in the city, such as 4th Avenue which is aptly titled "High Street." The Boca Raton Hotel's Beach Club rests at 23 ft (7.0 m) above sea level. Boca Raton is frost free.
Climate data for Boca Raton, Florida 2010 Enumeration Boca Raton Palm Beach County Florida Boca Raton is known for its well-to-do and educated civil improve and high income demographic.
According to Forbes, Boca Raton has three of the ten most expensive gated communities in the U.S.
Certain areas of Boca Raton, such as the Sandalfoot Cove community, have momentous populations of Brazilian and other Latino immigrants.
Boca Raton Museum of Art Boca Raton was home to the Wick Theatre & Costume Museum.
The Boca Raton Bowl is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that features the Mid-American Conference (MAC) facing off against an opponent from the American Athletic Conference (AAC) or Conference USA (C-USA) in alternating years.
Mizner Park is a lifestyle center in downtown Boca Raton.
The Center for the Arts at Mizner Park is positioned on the north end of the development, which includes the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Count de Hoernele Amphitheater.
Town Center at Boca Raton is an upscale super-regional shopping center in Boca Raton.
In 1999, the Simon Property Group bought Town Center at Boca Raton and began redeveloping it.
Beach entrance in Boca Raton.
Boca Raton's easterly coast has two-miles of beaches, prominently Red Reef Park and South Inlet Park. Founded in 1984, Gumbo Limbo is a cooperative universal of the City of Boca Raton, Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, Florida Atlantic University, and Friends of Gumbo Limbo. In addition to the sea tanks, butterfly garden and boardwalk trail through the hammocks complete with an observation tower, Gumbo Limbo also homes a research facility run by FAU where students study sea turtles, sharks, sea grass and other marine-related subjects.
Sugar Sand Park is a municipal park in Boca Raton.
Another park is the Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park, positioned in West Boca Raton.
Office Depot's corporate command posts in Boca Raton, Florida.
Office Depot, a supplier of office products and services, has its global command posts on a 28-acre ground in the city. The GEO Group, a business that operates prisons, also has its command posts in Boca Raton based out of One Park Place. Media companies American Media and Friend - Finder Networks, hotel business Luxury Resorts, consumer products business Jarden and e-retailers Vitacost plus BMI Gaming are also based in Boca Raton.
3 Boca Raton Regional Hospital 2,250 4 Boca Raton Resort 1,800 5 City of Boca Raton 1,279 Boca Raton High School Boca Raton is also home to a several notable private and theological schools.
As of 2007, Boca Raton is served by four enhance high schools.
Within the city's limits, Boca Raton Community High School serves the easterly part of the city.
Spanish River Community High School serves the west-central part of the town/city limits and parts of unincorporated Boca Raton.
Finally, West Boca Raton Community High School serves the far-west unincorporated areas.
Spanish River, Olympic Heights, and West Boca Raton also serve students from Delray Beach and Boynton Beach. Don Estridge High Tech Middle School is a technology magnet school titled for Don Estridge, the prestige of a small group of engineers who advanced the IBM Personal Computer in Boca Raton.
The other four enhance middle schools are Boca Raton Community Middle School, Eagles Landing Middle School, Loggers' Run Community Middle School, and Omni Middle School.
Boca Raton Elementary Two alternatives to the Palm Beach County Public Schools in Boca Raton are the K-8 Alexander D.
Both are positioned on the Florida Atlantic University ground and are organized as a unique and separate school district; they are not part of the Palm Beach County School System.
Pope John Paul II High School is a Catholic school positioned in Boca Raton.
Katz Hillel Day School of Boca Raton Boca Raton Christian School Pine Crest School, based in Fort Lauderdale, has a ground in Boca Raton.
The Boca Raton campus, originally Boca Raton Academy, was combined by Pine Crest in 1987.
Katz Yeshiva High School of Boca Raton Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, held its first classes in Boca Raton in 1964.
FAU is a member of the State University System of Florida and is the biggest university in Boca Raton.
In recognition of the rapid expansion of Boca Raton's universities, in particular FAU, the town/city of Boca Raton has recently been referred to as a "burgeoning college town." Lynn University (founded as Marymount College, then retitled the College of Boca Raton in 1974, and finally Lynn University in 1991) is a four-year co-educational institution retitled to honor the Lynn (Eugene & Christine) family who continue to be benefactors of the university.
The Boca Raton Public Library serves town/city of Boca Raton residents.
The Glades Road Branch Library and the West Boca Branch Library of the Palm Beach County Library System serve Boca Raton inhabitants who live outside the town/city limits.
According to a number of US Federal indictments, as of June 2004, the Gambino family continues to operate in Boca Raton.
The tv show The Sopranos featured the town/city in its plot ("Boca" and "...To Save Us All From Satan's Power"), and Mafia Wife author Lynda Milito resides in Boca Raton.
The Boca Raton Airport (BCT) is a general aviation airport positioned immediately adjoining to Florida Atlantic University and Interstate 95.
The Boca Raton Airport is publicly owned and governed by a seven-member Authority appointed by the City of Boca Raton and the Palm Beach County Commission.
Interstate 95 bisects the town/city from north to south with four interchanges serving Boca Raton.
Florida's Turnpike is a north-south highway passing through unincorporated Boca Raton, forming part of the town/city limits in the north, with one interchange at Glades Road.
Boca Raton Tri-Rail Station The Tri-Rail commuter rail fitness serves the town/city with its Boca Raton station positioned on the south side of Yamato Road just west of I-95.
Long before any pioneer arrived, the initial 1870 government survey of the region showed that just west of and alongside to the Atlantic Ocean's coastal dune was the "Boca Ratones Lagoon", which extended south for nine miles (14.5 km) calculated from just north of the present locale of Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
Along the southern half of the lagoon were three wide areas each called a "Lake", which are now titled (north to south) Lake Rogers, Lake Wyman, and Lake Boca Raton.
At the southeast end of the lagoon was a short protrusion toward the south which would turn into the Boca Raton Inlet after a sandbar at its mouth was removed.
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"Dates and times set for inaugural MAC football-affiliated Boca Raton Bowl, Bahamas Bowl".
"The revamping will entail a relocation of approximately 40 citizens , including senior management, from Grace's Boca Raton, Florida office to its Columbia, Maryland site.
And "Following the relocation, Grace will close its command posts office at 1750 Clint Moore Road in Boca Raton, which presently employs approximately 130 citizens ." "Boca Raton city, Florida." "City of Boca Raton 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report" (PDF).
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