🏗️ The 1920s-era Good Samaritan Medical Center on the North Flagler Drive waterfront in West Palm Beach will be torn down and replaced by a hospital and condos, apartments, stores and a hotel, Tenet Healthcare announced Thursday. The hospital’s partner is Easton Street Capital, a Palm Beach-based real estate investment firm affiliated with Palm Beach’s Frisbie Group. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🚫 The Florida House has approved a measure to eliminate property taxes on homesteaded properties and send the question to voters in 2026. But the Florida Senate has done nothing with three weeks left in the session. (WPTV)
📻 Discord within South Florida Public Media Group, which manages the WLRN public radio station, could undermine its plans to acquire another station in West Palm Beach. The internal friction stems from the station’s fight with its owner, the Miami-Dade County School District, over WLRN’s plans to expand into Palm Beach County by paying more than $6 million to buy a West Palm Beach-based radio station at 104.7 FM. (Axios Miami)
🌴 Related Ross and Palm Tree Crew inked a four-year partnership with West Palm Beach to return annually for a downtown Palm Tree Music Festival. The companies say they’re investing in “infrastructure” to support future events. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🎨 If you missed last weekend’s Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival, check out this richly illustrated story about how artists turn chalk on pavement into three-dimensional images. (Lake Worth Beach Independent and focus on artist from India)
📣 West Palm Beach is reaching out to residents for an “Evergreen Cemetery Conversation” from 6 to 7:30 pm today at Gaines Park Community Center. (Stet’s look at who is buried at Evergreen)
🗓️ Riviera Beach’s Youth Council plans public expo and town hall. (Community Voices)
🐱 Adopt A Cat at 26: Still purring along, but on a budget that is tested by costly medical treatment to save cats. (Stet News)
🇺🇸 A voters’ guide to the March 10 municipal elections is available from the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County. Just put in your address to see information about each candidate in your city. (Vote 411 voter’s guide)
🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, dives into a potentially big budget gap facing Florida lawmakers and the surprising bipartisan support for school vaccine mandates. Plus, Minneapolis and wind-only insurance. (Listen now; watch.)
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