Riviera Beach is experiencing significant growth in its residential development sector, with nearly 2,000 condos and apartments planned or under construction. This activity comes as the city seeks to attract more investment along its waterfront corridor.
The Riviera Beach City Council is currently reviewing proposals for the redevelopment of a 90-acre Marina Village project. Two developers are being considered: Bob Sonnenblick’s Los Angeles-based Sonnenblick Development and Peter Baytarian’s North Palm Beach-based Forest Development. Both proposals include residential components, according to planning documents.
Forest Development is also competing with Kenco Communities from West Palm Beach and Frontier Development & Hospitality Group from Washington, D.C., for another city-owned site measuring 2.2 acres that could accommodate hundreds of additional residential units.
Several projects highlight the current pipeline:
– The Related Group, based in Miami and led by the Pérez family, received approval in June for an eight-story, 149-unit apartment complex at 57 East 12th Street. In September, the developer secured $100.3 million in construction financing for this project. The apartments will be available to households earning between 30 percent and 110 percent of Palm Beach County’s area median income, which was $104,000 in 2024.
– Next to this site is Gallery at Marina Village at 1300 Broadway. Related Group has partnered with BH Group and Tezral Partners for a planned two-tower project reaching 20 stories and containing 418 apartments. The development will also feature about 3,000 square feet each of retail and office space as well as a parking garage with capacity for 648 vehicles.
– O’Connor Capital Partners from New York plans to build Marina Annex at 251 West 11th Street—a mixed-use apartment project offering 175 units alongside retail space and a community center named after Edward Rodgers, the first Black circuit court judge of Palm Beach County. The Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation will operate the center.
– SobelCo from Boca Raton is developing a large condo complex on a former boat yard at 1117 Broadway. The plan includes two buildings with twenty stories each and two buildings with thirteen stories each—totaling 508 condos—as well as retail space, restaurants, and a parking garage with over one thousand spaces. SobelCo acquired the property for $12 million earlier this year; city officials granted final approval this week.
– Estate Companies from South Miami intends to construct Soleste on the Trail—a four-story building with 255 apartments—at 7920 North Military Trail. Estate purchased the land in 2021 for $8 million and obtained a $60 million construction loan in September.
– At another location on Broadway (3700), Forest Development’s Baytarian plans Oculina: two towers of twenty-five stories each containing a total of 399 condo units plus substantial restaurant, office, and retail space on what was formerly a Winn-Dixie supermarket site. As part of this deal, Baytarian agreed to pay nearly $5 million into Riviera Beach’s affordable housing fund in exchange for increased height and density allowances.
