Crews broke ground on a $200 million project in suburban Boca Raton on Friday. Uptown Boca will have retail, restaurants, and apartments in a 38-acre lot just east of Highway 411 on Glades Road.
Plans include a Silverspot Cinema, Lucky’s Market, Bolay, and Chick-fil-A.
The project has people excited.
“We need new restaurants, we are tired of going to the same old ones,” said Teri Trabitz.
Others have different thoughts on the new project.
“It is going to be a traffic mess,” said Neal Stevens.
Stevens said with the three shopping centers already in the area, and Uptown Boca will create more problems for him.
“Everything around here is just bad, it is, really poor planning,” he said.
Warren Redlich said he likes what is going in at Uptown Boca, but he said he already avoids Glades Road because of the crazy traffic.
“If more people do that now it shifts more traffic onto those roads,” Redlich said.
Developers for Uptown Boca did a traffic study with the county. Alex Rosemurgy with Rosemurgy Properties said their goal is to create a lifestyle component in West Boca and keep people from having to drive east.
“Create a component to this community, so those trips are not traveling eight miles back and forth,” said Rosemurgy.
Construction for the project will start right away. The project is scheduled to be done in fall of 2019