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Both applications will require rezoning from the City Council, but no hearings have been scheduled yet.
“Kolter Multifamily has been focused on expanding within markets with limited future supply, thus compounding growing affordability issues,” said Jeff Quinlivan, president of Kolter Multifamily. “We are very bullish on Palm Beach County and Palm Beach Gardens specifically. These sites are among the last remaining sites within the city that allow for relatively less dense, surface parked projects.”
For the larger site, Kolter Multifamily has 45.7 acres on the south side of Northlake Boulevard and both sides of 140th Avenue under contract from Delray Beach-based Northlake Maintenance LLC. The tentative address of the agricultural site is 13702 Northlake Blvd. It’s just south of the new Avenir mixed-use community. It was annexed into the city in 2023.
Delray Beach-based Kolter Multifamily wants to rezone the property to mixed-use development in order to build the Avocado Apartments. It would feature 347 apartments, 17,899 square feet of commercial space and 769 parking spaces. There would be five apartment buildings of three stories each, plus a clubhouse and a pool.
The units would range from 766 to 1,969 square feet. There would be 62 townhouses and 282 apartments, with 10% of those units workforce housing. Plus, 16.1 acres on the west side of the site would be left for conservation.
Ken Tuma of Urban Design Studio represents Kolter Multifamily in the Avocado Apartments application.
Further east in the city, Kolter Multifamily has the 23.2-acre former trailer park at 3090 Lychee Street under contract from Gardens Business Center Palm Beach LLC. The developer wants to change the land use to planned community development to build the Hilltop Apartments, featuring 450 units and 733 parking spaces. There would be six buildings of five stories each, plus a clubhouse and a pool.
The developer would dedicate 45 units there for workforce housing. The entire project would break down to 8% studio apartments, 43% one-bedroom apartments, 42% two-bedroom apartments, and 7% three-bedroom apartments.
Nicole Plunkett and Donaldson Hearing of Cotleur & Hearing represent Kolter Multifamily in the Hilltop Apartments application.
The site was previously proposed as warehouses, but those plans didn’t move forward.
