Kolter Group has proposed building a complex of five-story buildings on the site of a long-closed mobile home park in Palm Beach Gardens.
PALM BEACH GARDENS — A five-story apartment complex could soon rise at the site of a long-vacant parcel off Northlake Boulevard where a mobile-home park once stood.
The Palm Beach Gardens City Council is expected to consider the Kolter Group’s plans for the Hilltop Gardens apartments when it meets March 5.
If approved, Kolter would build the complex of 432 apartments on the site of the old Hilltop Gardens Mobile Home Park, north of Northlake near Congress Avenue. The park closed more than a decade ago.
The Hilltop Gardens site is one of the last vacant parcels along a stretch of the Northlake corridor that is surrounded by restaurants, retail and service outlets. It is close to shopping venues such as Target and Costco, and sits just east of Howell L. Watkins Middle School and the Lake Catherine Sports Complex.
Palm Beach Gardens apartments would sit on Congress Avenue extension
The city in 2009 designated the land for commercial use. Its Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board on Feb. 10 recommended changing the land to a mix of commercial and residential use and approving the complex.
If the zoning change and a site plan are approved, Kolter would designate 17.64 acres for residential use, with plans to construct six five-story apartment buildings and a clubhouse, according to city records.
A 3.41-acre parcel would be allocated for future commercial use. Kolter’s plans do not specify what that use might be.
The apartment complex would sit about 400 feet north of Northlake Boulevard, on the west side of the Congress Avenue extension that will connect the major north-south route to Alternate A1A.
Palm Beach County recently completed the first phase of the roadway project, extending Congress north from Northlake to Avocado Drive, near the north end of the Hilltop Gardens site.
Palm Beach Gardens complex would include 54 afforable apartments
Records show that 54 of the 432 apartment units would be designated for use under the city’s workforce housing program, which aims to provide housing at prices middle-income workers such as teachers, nurses and public-safety workers can afford.
The city put its first comprehensive workforce housing program in place in 2020, and later codified incentives such as fee waivers, expedited permitting and density bonuses for projects that participate in the program.
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