A hotel could return to the downtown waterfront, the city’s docks would extend farther out into the Intracoastal Waterway and the city would finally free itself from a loser of a lease under a complex plan for a major overhaul of the city’s Palm Harbor Marina to be announced today.
The plan, which also calls for [...]

The people are crying over too-high property taxes. But West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel says they’re not high enough.
In an unprecedented move by a city, West Palm Beach is suing Palm Beach County Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits, demanding he boost tax assessments on three new downtown condominiums so the city can collect more taxes [...]

WEST PALM BEACH — With questions of transparency and ethics in government mushrooming in the city, one of the touchiest subjects among Mayor Lois Frankel and city commissioners is when they knew - and what they knew - about a cash gift from condo developer The Related Group to the Northend Coalition of Neighborhoods.
The $250,000 [...]