Stet News💎 The gap between what the wealthy pay for a home in West Palm Beach and what everyone else pays is now the widest in America. The typical luxury home in the city sold for $4.51 million during the three months ending in May, nearly nine times the $506,609 that a typical non-luxury home fetched over the same stretch. (Redfin)
📈 Republicans could overtake Democrats in voter registration in Palm Beach County — a longtime Democratic stronghold — by next year, according to an analysis of voter registration data released by Mi Vecinos, an influential Florida-based group that mobilizes Latino voters. (WLRN)
🛠️ Two brothers from a prominent Miami Beach real estate family, Josh and Jared Robins, paid $2.02 million for a shuttered 1945 building in downtown Lake Worth Beach across the street from the Lake Worth Playhouse with plans to revive it. (Lake Worth Beach Independent $$$)
🏗️ Developers have broken ground on a 21-story mixed-use project at 506 Datura St., just west of the downtown West Palm Beach Brightline station that will feature a Marriott Tribute hotel and apartments. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
🗺️ Two properties recently annexed into Wellington at Southern Boulevard and Seminole Pratt Whitney Road are in line for Live Local Act approvals of 212 apartments proposed by developer NuRock. (Town-Crier)
🐕 Florida DOGE officials worked to export their playbook to other states at an event in Washington, D.C., and revealed how the state’s effort at rooting out local government waste relies on AI and far-right organizations. The leader of the group that issued invitations has posted Nazi and racist material on X. (Florida Trident)
🐄 The Florida Cracker Trail started in the 1500s when the Spanish would drop off cattle in Fort Pierce on the east coast and drive them across the state to the Manatee River on the west coast for shipping to Mexico. Now it’s memorialized with a reenactment every winter and the Cracker Trail Museum in Hardee County’s Zolfo Springs. (TC Palm $$$)
🐟 Ocean experts Catherine Uden and Evan Orellana will speak on preserving oceans and shorelines at 8 pm Thursday at the Mandel Public Library in West Palm Beach’s third-floor auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Sierra Club Loxahatchee Group Energy Committee. (Register here.)
🅿️ Charges for parking at Riviera Beach waterfront lots will resume Aug. 10, City Council members decided last week. The move follows a pause that started in June and several improvements in the system that tracks parking in spots at Ocean Walk and parts of the Marina Village. (City Council meeting recording starting at the discussion)
ICYMI Part 1: Long before she climbed Machu Picchu and paddled down the Amazon as an adventurous grandmother, Dorothy Wilken blazed a legacy-defining trail in Palm Beach County as a fearless political dynamo who shattered glass ceilings and fought for growth control. (Stet News)
ICYMI Part 2: Palm Beach County commissioners have abandoned plans to charge county residents to park at 12 beachfront parks. (Stet News)
🎧 “Top of Mind Florida,” the podcast by Michael Williams and Brian Crowley, looks at the how Byron Donalds’ fundraising lead reshapes the GOP governor’s race and why Gov. Ron DeSantis has been so quiet about the campaign of his lieutenant governor, Jay Collins. Also the U.S. Senate race and the amendment to reduce property taxes. (Listen now; watch after 4 pm today.)
