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VOL. 19 NO. 1 www.seabreezepublications.com JANUARY 2025

Boca Raton Celebrates 2025 Centennial Year!

“Boca Raton 1925-2025: Addison Mizner’s Legacy,”

Boca Historical Society’s Exhibit Runs Through May 30th

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(1) Addison Mizner, a 1920s South Florida architect, city planner and real estate developer had a vision of what could be. Mizner purchased the property and, working with his assistants
in a small bungalow (2) in the middle of a mud flat laid out the first plans for a town that became named Boca Ratone. Promoting his dream town to prospective home buyers in ads (3) as
“the most beautiful place in the world,” he set in motion a Centennial success story. Boca Raton was officially incorporated as a city on May 25th 1925, with Mayor John Brown (4) elected
as its first mayor, serving from 1925-1929. The city’s population by 1929 was about 5,000…up from about 200 in 1920. Today, (5) the City of Boca Raton has a population of about 100,000
residents with about 14,000 registered businesses. 1,300,000 people visit Boca each year from outside Palm Beach County and 670,000 additional visit from within the County. The City of
Boca Raton’s present annual operating General Fund budget is $247,425,400 managed by Mayor Scott Singer (6) and the City Council. Mayor Singer is the city’s 35 th Mayor. He was first
elected Mayor in 2018, re-elected in 2020 with 89% of the vote—receiving the two highest vote totals in the city’s history—and re-elected without opposition in 2023.

As the City of Boca Raton launches a year-round It all began when Addison Mizner’s skill and vision next century even greater than Addison Mizner could have
schedule of activities and events to celebrate its 100th as an architect, city planner and industrialist produced ever imagined,” notes Mary Csar, Executive Director of
year—all of which we look forward to covering for our the innovative and enduring designs that created Boca the Boca Raton Historical Society.
readers in the pages of Boca Club News—the Boca Raton Raton, one of the world’s ultimate resort destinations and Mizner’s Old World architectural style and
Historical Society is presenting a fascinating and highly residential communities. manufacturing concerns transformed South Florida’s
recommended multi-media exhibition that showcases our “Contemplating the previous decades of progress gives
city’s past century of development. us the foundation, perspective and inspiration to make the Boca Raton Celebrates 2025 Centennial Year! on page 3

Broken Sound Nets Win Over St. Andrews

In 24th Annual Tennis Trophy Challenge

The happy faces in
this photo are some of the
Broken Sound tennis team
members celebrating their
nine matches to five victory
over St. Andrews in the long-
running consistently hard-
fought but friendly rivalry
between the two clubs. This
year’s competition, held at St.
Andrews’ courts December
8th for the first time in
four years, consisted of 14
matches: 4 men’s doubles, 7
ladies’ doubles and 3 mixed
doubles. By the tournament’s
tradition, the official trophy
will once again—as it was all
last year—be on display in Celebration Time! Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer—at
Broken Sound Club’s Tennis right, with Picklers’ team member Brian Reynolds—
Pro Shop with its newly presented the Boca Raton Picklers Pickleball Team with a
engraved, updated results. Key to the City and Proclamation during a watch party of
the 2024 NPL National Championship victory. The event
was held at Broken Sound. The Picklers presented Mayor
Singer with a team jersey. The team also showcased their
championship win by participating in the Boca Raton
Holiday Parade.

First Annual Boca Free Music and Food “Street Festival”

January 25th—See page 3