Coconut Creek News
By LUIS F. PEREZ
August 28, 2025
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Renderings of the proposed 11-story, 300-apartment mixed-use development to replace the downtown Coral Springs Bank of America building show two buildings fronting the streets and wrapped around two parking facilities covering an entire city block. TAPinto Coral Springs obtained ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A late-night DUI crash in Coconut Creek involving a Boca Raton driver left $35k in damages to both cars.Aleksandr Moskalev, 51, was driving near 3900 West Hillsboro Boulevard around 11 p.m. on August 20 when he crashed into the back of another car, according to an arrest ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Three men caught trying to break into cars in Coconut Creek ended up leading police on a pursuit involving a police helicopter and a K-9 unit. Officers were called to the Banyan Trails neighborhood near Wiles and Lyons roads around 3:37 a.m. on August 23 after video surveillance ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The former brewmaster at Big Bear Brewing in Coral Springs, who once pitched city officials on opening a brewery in the Cornerstone development, is facing a domestic violence charge after his wife was found dead in a canal behind their home, according to police and an arrest ...
MARGATE, FL — Work crews descended on an operating room at HCA Florida Northwest Hospital last week to turn it into a new specialized space for heart valve replacements. Hospital officials have brought on two new cardiac surgeons to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacements, a minimally ...
DEERFIELD BEACH, FL — The Broward Sheriff’s Office is investigating a dirt bike crash that killed a 22-year-old man just over the Coconut Creek city limits. The sheriff’s traffic homicide detectives are investigating the crash that happened at 100 N. Powerline Road in Deerfield Beach just after ...
BOCA RATON, FL — The City of Boca Raton stands to make $3 billion from its downtown government campus redevelopment plan. The campus will generate that amount of revenue over the 99-year lease of the land to allow a developer to build on it. In today’s dollars, that equates to $350 million per ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The proposed 11-story, 300-apartment downtown Coral Springs development to replace the Bank of America Building would include retail, office, and bank space, two parking garages, a co-working area, and a sixth-floor pool for residents. That’s according to a letter submitted by ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A woman pulled from a canal in Coral Springs this week has died, according to police.Officers responded to the 9900 block of NW 15th Court at 8:52 p.m. on Monday after reports of an unconscious woman in the water.When they arrived, police found an adult female unresponsive in ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A man was seriously injured in a shooting outside a 7-Eleven in Coconut Creek on Saturday evening, police said.The shooting happened just after 7 p.m. on August 23 in a car parked outside the store at 4500 West Hillsboro Boulevard, according to Coconut Creek Police. The victim, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A 69-year-old gas station clerk who was shoved by a man stealing from the store in Coconut Creek backed out of pressing charges over fears that Immigration and Customs Enforcement might get involved.The clerk at the Marathon station, at 4811 Coconut Creek Parkway, told officers ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Florida Atlantic University will celebrate its 25th season of football this year, and new coach Zack Kittley aims to build a faster team with a stronger offense. Kittley, who worked with three-time Super Bowl champion and Kansas City Chiefs starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes for ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The lack of affordable housing in Coral Springs has city officials exploring the possibility of changing local zoning rules to allow single-family homeowners to add mother-in-law suites. As part of a discussion on affordable housing at a city commission retreat on Wednesday, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Coral Springs police responded to a bank robbery at 10:04 a.m. Monday at the Amerant Bank on University Drive, according to police. Police issued a precautionary code secure at nearby Ramblewood Elementary School as they investigated the robbery. It was lifted about an hour ...
WEST BOCA RATON, FL — Before opening Il Fiore in West Boca Raton, Chef Michael Monaco spent years in North Jersey kitchens where mobsters, celebrities, and Sinatra’s circle were as common as veal cutlets and Sunday sauce. Those encounters — sometimes humorous, sometimes tense — became part of his ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Minto Communities USA has moved its corporate headquarters to the Promenade at Coconut Creek, the company announced last week. The homebuilder opened the new office on Lyons Road with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday. The company now occupies 15,530 square feet of office ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — The renovations at Sunshine Drive Park in Coconut Creek were supposed to be done by June, but delays have caused the city to seek an extension to an agreement allowing it to use state money to help pay for the work. The city commission is expected to take up at its Thursday ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A Boca Raton veteran who had been homeless for about four years secured transitional housing with help from the city’s homeless liaison officer and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.Officer Gabriel Cox, who has served with the Boca Raton Police Services Department since 2022, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – “In the United States, we have the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, and the Bushes. When you think of Coral Springs, you have the Walshes.”With those words, Vice Mayor Shawn Cerra summed up the City Commission’s recognition of Brian Walsh Sr. and his family last week, honoring their ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A man was found sleeping on Broward College’s North Campus in Coconut Creek with a dagger-style knife inside his backpack while the school was open for classes.Police were notified on August 145 at 10:18 a.m. by campus security about a homeless man sleeping in the breezeway near ...
BOCA RATON, FL. — A spectacular big band concert that was a highlight of the 2025 Festival of the Arts will return as a free performance for the community, celebrating the city's centennial.The Centennial Celebration Concert: Through the Decades is a multimedia extravaganza that will be held at 8 ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Four Coral Springs public middle schools and two high schools that serve its students are up for discussion as Broward County Public Schools officials continue to make changes across the district to address declining enrollment. At a school board workshop scheduled for Tuesday, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Tucson man with a kidnapping warrant in Arizona and a grand theft conviction in Florida is back behind bars for assaulting his wife during an argument in Coconut Creek.The victim and her husband, John McIntyre, 60, were arguing over car keys at their home in Coconut Creek on ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A serial dine-and-dasher struck another Boca Raton restaurant this month, taking off after consuming $252 worth of food and beverages at an eatery on Restaurant Row near Town Center at Boca Raton, according to a Boca Raton police report.At about 10 p.m. on Aug. 13, police received ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The Chai Center Chabad in Coral Springs announced this week that construction of its expanded facility will be finished by the middle of November.The project, years in the making, will give the Jewish congregation in The Shoppes at Heron Lakes a larger sanctuary, a new ark, and ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek led the way in the years-long fight to try and stop the expansion of the Monarch Hill Landfill, and this week it led the way in ceding that battle, clearing the path for the landfill’s owner to move forward. On Monday, the city’s elected leaders agreed to end their ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A 32-year-old Coconut Creek man, who fled after being involved in a two-car crash, didn’t get far and police charged him with driving under the influence. When police arrived at the crash site on the 4700 block of Sample Road at around 1:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, a witness told police ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Nordstrom Rack will open its newest South Florida location in Coral Springs on Sept. 18 at Pine Ridge Square plaza.The store will occupy the 31,000-square-foot space at 4631 University Drive that was previously home to Bed Bath & Beyond. Nordstrom Rack, the off-price ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A 48-year-old Coral Springs man hurled a concrete landscaping paver at a vehicle carrying his ex and their five children, an incident that also led investigators to uncover a prior shooting inside the home.Nealando Richards’ ex arrived outside his home on Aug. 12 to pick up ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A Miami man who was stalking his ex-girlfriend recently fled as police and Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies searched for him throughout four cities, including Coconut Creek, as he tried to get away and caused several accidents along the way. He rear-ended two cars on Aug. 11 on ...