Westgate CRA is continuing its efforts to improve transportation options, and create a safe, multi-modal network throughout the redevelopment area.  It has multiple streetscape projects that enhance walkability and mobility and improve pedestrian safety within the community which are actively underway.

These projects are as follows:

Purpose
Seminole Boulevard intersects Westgate Avenue and is an important north-south connector within the CRA district, extending from Okeechobee Boulevard to Troy Boulevard. The project improves pedestrian and bicyclist facilities and safety, and creates a recreation loop

Scope
Pedestrian scale lighting for nighttime safety and 10’-12’ multi-use paths on each side of roadway, with future plans to install landscaping for shade within Seminole Blvd. R-O-W between Okeechobee Blvd. and Oswego Avenue

Project Partners:

• Palm Beach County BCC and Administration
• Palm Beach County Engineering Department
• Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency
• FDOT District 4
• Westgate CRA

Construction Cost:

$1.8 million. In FY18/19 the CRA, in partnership with PBC Engineering, was awarded $1 million in FDOT funding from the Palm Beach County Transportation Planning Agency Transportation Alternatives (TAP) grant program to implement the project

Construction Update:

Expanded sidewalks are complete and sodding is installed. Project completion is delayed until September 2024 due to streetlight fixture supply issues.

Construction Timeline:

• Construction mobilized on 11/20/2023
• Project completion is delayed until September 2024 due to streetlight fixture supply issues.

Primary Contacts:

• PBC Engineering, Construction Coordination Division
  Zach King: 561-684-4178
• Westgate CRA
  Elizee Michel: 561-640-8181
• Project Hotline
  561-214-0629 – Info@themerchantstrategy.com

Purpose
Capital Improvements Project + Economic Development Driver. The project was conceived through a 2016 Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO, now Florida Jobs) grant to prepare a Westgate Avenue Streetscape Plan. The Plan, which incorporated feedback from community stakeholders, was used to create a streetscape design to improve functionality, walkability, and multimodal transportation opportunities + beautify and create and environment to attract new investment and expand economic opportunity on the Westgate Avenue corridor

Scope
Reduce lanes from 5 to 3 with center turn lane, pedestrian scale lighting for nighttime safety, widened 6’ sidewalks, flex on-street parking/street trees and landscaping for shade and aesthetics, and 5’ bike lanes within the Westgate Avenue R-O-W between Congress Avenue to Wabasso Drive

Project Partners

• Palm Beach County BCC and Administration
• Palm Beach County Engineering Department
• Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency
• FDOT District 4
• Westgate CRA

Construction Cost
$11 million. In FY 18/19 the CRA, in partnership with PBC Engineering, was awarded $3.2 million in FDOT funding from the Palm Beach County Transportation Planning Agency Local Initiatives (LI) grant program to implement the project

Construction Update: 

• Construction crews have completed drainage work and expanded sidewalks, installed landscaping, street trees, and protective bollards for on street parking on the north side
•  Work has now begun on the south side of the corridor
• Installation of pedestrian scale streetlights and road resurfacing/bike lane striping are set to occur in the final stages of construction
• Project is progressing ahead of schedule

Construction Timeline:

• Construction mobilized during first week of January 2024
• Phased work begins at Congress Avenue
• 1.5 years to completion

Primary Contacts:

• PBC Engineering, Roadway Division
  Maroun Azzi, P.E.: 561-684-4150
• Project Administrator
  Bruno Torres, MBA, CGC, Metha: 954-294-8582
• Westgate CRA POC
  Elizee Michel: 561-640-8181
• Project Hotline
  561-214-0629 – info@themerchantstrategy.com

Purpose
Cherry Road is the primary access point into the Belvedere Homes/Golfview Heights neighborhood from Military Trail. The Project improves pedestrian and bicyclist facilities, mobility and safety.

Scope
An 8’ multi-use path on the north side of the roadway, 6’ sidewalks to portions on the south side east of Country Club Road, a high visibility crosswalk at Country Club Rd., pedestrian scale lighting for nighttime safety, and street trees where viable within Cherry Rd. R-O-W between Quail Drive and Military Trail

Project Partners:

• Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) and Administration
• Palm Beach County Engineering Department
• Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency
• FDOT District 4
• Westgate CRA

Construction Cost:

Estimated approx. $1.4 million. In FY 19/20 the CRA, in partnership with PBC Engineering, was awarded $1 million in FDOT funding from the Palm Beach County Transportation Planning Agency Transportation Alternatives (TAP) grant program to implement the project

Construction Timeline:

• Project is in the final design phase with programmed construction start in early 2025

Primary Contacts:

• Westgate CRA
  Denise Pennell: 561-640-8181
• Project Hotline
  561-214-0629 – Info@themerchantstrategy.com

Neighborhood Meetings

Westgate Park & Recreation Center
Tuesday, December 5th 2023 @ 05:30PM

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Neighborhood Meetings

December 5th, 2023