Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'Mayfair House' (6)

South Palm Beach: Mayfair helps Imperial to get seawall done

By Tim O’Meilia

The Imperial House might not wash into the sea this hurricane season after all.

Construction of most of a new $500,000 seawall to protect the 58-unit cooperative from unrelenting erosion was completed just as turtle-nesting…

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Added by Mary Kate Leming on April 29, 2010 at 1:10pm — No Comments

Mayfair House board offers beach access to Imperial House

By Tim O’ Meilia

The Mayfair House has come to the rescue of the Imperial House, a nearby six-story co-operative in South Palm Beach in danger of collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean during another angry nor’easter.

The Mayfair House, five buildings north, has offered to allow its neighbors access to the beach through its parking lot for the equipment and materials necessary to build a seawall to protect the Imperial House against the encroaching ocean.

“It’s humanitarian,” said… Continue

Added by Mary Kate Leming on February 4, 2010 at 3:25pm — No Comments

South Palm Beach seeks county intervention in beach dispute

By Tim O’Meilia

With the Imperial House facing another winter without a seawall, the South Palm Beach Town Council voted on Dec. 15 to ask Palm Beach County to intervene in a dispute between the condominium and the town of Lantana over beach access.

The 58-unit co-op adjoins the north end of Lantana’s oceanfront beach and needs the access to move construction equipment onto the beach to erect the seawall.

“We can’t support them financially but at least we can support them… Continue

Added by Mary Kate Leming on December 31, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

LANTANA: Town remains at odds with co-op over beach access

By Margie Plunkett

The Lantana Town Council dismissed as “insulting” a counterproposal from the Imperial House to pay $5,000 for beach access to fix its failing seawall, and said it would investigate if, under an agreement for emergency work, it could demand Imperial House put the beach back together and vacate within seven days. Mayor David Stewart and other council members balked at the counterproposal during a Dec. 14 meeting — a day before South Palm Beach voted to request… Continue

Added by Mary Kate Leming on December 31, 2009 at 11:59am — No Comments

Imperial House’s beach work runs into brick wall with neighbors

By Tim O’Meilia

Thirty-three years ago Bonnie Fischer found the dream retirement home — an affordable first-floor oceanfront condominium apartment at Imperial House with a view of a beach several hundred feet wide.

In mid-November, an angry north wind sent churning waves one after another onto that shrinking beach, clawing through a temporary wall of three-ton blocks and undermining a walkway that ran along the seaside building.

“I had… Continue

Added by Mary Kate Leming on December 3, 2009 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Lantana stands firm on beach access costs

By Margie Plunkett

Lantana council members took a hard stand against helping the neighboring Imperial House condominium building at taxpayers’ expense and said it would charge $213,500 to allow the co-op to stage equipment to fix its rapidly deteriorating temporary sea wall.

The figure equals the added expense Lantana has incurred to rebuild its weather-damaged sea wall because the Imperial House had not made repairs on its sea wall at the time of construction, according to… Continue

Added by Mary Kate Leming on December 3, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments