Welcome to The Dirt! I’m real estate reporter Kimberly Miller with the latest developments in the sizzling market.
It was lawsuits galore last week in the Palm Beach County real estate world with wealthy business people doing what wealthy business people do when there’s a disagreement ― hire attorneys.
Actually, not everyone is supercalifragilistic rich in the swirl of lawsuit news. The owners of the Kitchen restaurant live in a normal house in a middle- to upper-income area of West Palm Beach and just want to keep their restaurant where it’s been for the past 10 years.
Developers have other ideas.
The long-planned Transit Village is battling to break ground to offer some affordable housing and traffic relief to downtown West Palm Beach.
And the owners of The Square (I hope they know everyone still calls it CityPlace) are scrapping with tenant L.A. Fitness about what defines a place where people go to sweat and burn off calories so they can eat and drink more at El Camino’s happy hour. It’s hard to beat $3 tacos and $6 margaritas.
Let them eat coconut cake! (at the Kitchen)
![Aliza Byrne and Chef Matthew Byrne own and operate Kitchen restaurant in West Palm Beach. [Photo by LILA PHOTO]](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/gcdn/presto/2020/10/07/NPPP/164ce292-0d51-47aa-a738-979ebc03c60c-KitchenAlizaMatthewLILA.JPG?width=660&height=440&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Gentrification has been a big part of the story in West Palm Beach post-pandemic and that goes for residential and commercial real estate. The Kitchen, which opened a decade ago in an aging plaza south of downtown, wants to keep its anchor location at 319 Belvedere Road, but Frisbie Group wants to raze the plaza to build a mixed-use development.
The spot is a prime area for development as the…
