Stet News🤖 The AI-generated staff of the South Florida Standard, complete with fake headshots and made-up biographies, is part of a loose nationwide network of similar news sites that republish stories lifted from actual news outlets. The search for the site’s backer took reporters from the Florida Trib and the tech podcast “Question Everything” to Drew Chapin, who pleaded guilty to defrauding investors in an unrelated matter in 2021, and set out to find ways to help felons bury unwanted search results. (Florida Trib)
🛒 An Aldi store has been proposed for the Winn-Dixie-anchored shopping center, the Shops at Palm Coast, on Dixie Highway on West Palm Beach’s south end. Palm Coast Invest LLC, led by Edmund Beebe of Johnstone Capital Partners, owns the 21.3-acre shopping center. Aldi does not own the South Dixie Winn-Dixie store. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
📷 Palm Beach County considered installing cameras to fine speeders in school zones but slammed on the brakes after a recent Broward County court decision declared the use of such cameras unconstitutional because violators are presumed guilty and must prove their innocence. (The Town Crier)
🚧 Pebb Capital has submitted plans for the land behind the office building housing The Palm Beach Post on South Dixie Highway, seeking 350 apartments, an eight-story, 855-space parking garage and 11,270 square feet of retail. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🏨 Related Ross dropped plans for 300 apartments and proposed a 180-room hotel, 320,000 square feet of stores and restaurants and 90,000 square feet of offices at Village Landing, its new name for the so-called K-Park site south of the Mall at Wellington Green on State Road 7. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
💰 A partnership between Elmsford, New York-based DLC and Principal Asset Management bought Legacy Place in Palm Beach Gardens for an undisclosed amount. The 43-acre center last sold for $101 million in 2021. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
💵 Related Ross paid $55 million for the block between Fern and Gardenia streets west of Dixie Highway in downtown West Palm Beach. A 100- to 130-unit condo project is proposed where developers had planned a 25-story, 372-unit building. (Commercial Observer $$$)
📜 The Historical Society of Lake Worth will ask the City Commission Tuesday to let it erect an open-air structure in Bryant Park to memorialize the city’s first home, the 1885 homestead of pioneers Fannie and Samuel James. (Lake Worth Beach Independent $$$)
⚓️ After the revelation of an FBI probe halted selection of a developer for the Riviera Beach Marina Village, the City Council heard presentations Wednesday with two members absent and promised to make the selection at a special meeting Thursday. (Stet detailed the competing bids here)
👑 “Lord of the Rinks” examines the monopolization of junior ice hockey and rink ownership under one private-equity executive who owns many youth leagues and 47 ice-rink facilities in 11 states. (USA Today)
🎙️ “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, delves into a budding community journalism program with Inlet Grove Community High School teacher CB Hanif and one of his students in the Stet-sponsored Community Voices program, Mikala Graham. (Listen now; watch after 4 pm today)
