Luxury resale gets a West Palm storefront

Florida is refunding sales tax on impact-resistant windows, doors, and garage doors. Purchases made between July 1, 2026, and June 30, 2029 can qualify. The catch is the paperwork. You pay the tax at the register, then file to get the money back. There is no discount at the point of sale. Your home has to be a site-built dwelling with a homestead exemption and a just value of $700,000 or less. One owner, one property, and the refund caps at $500. Claims are accepted through September 30, 2029, with the required forms and receipts attached.

A 350,000-square-foot development is taking shape near the Brightline station. The coverage came with a blunt line: West Palm Beach's skyline will never look the same. Building density around the train follows an obvious logic. Put people where the platform is, and the station stops being a novelty for tourists. For residents, the near-term reality is less romantic. It means construction fencing, closed sidewalks, and detours on streets you drive out of habit. The finished version usually photographs well. The years before that are the part nobody puts in the announcement.

WPTV brings its Let's Hear It meetups to West Palm Beach and Port St. Lucie on August 19 and 20. The focus this round is education. The format is simple: station staff show up, residents talk, and the newsroom listens for what it has been missing. Whether any of it becomes coverage is up to them. But school questions land hardest in August, when families are sorting out new schedules and new frustrations. If you have one, this is a room where someone hears it in person. That beats typing it into a comment section nobody reads.

Palm Beach County and a developer group led by Miami's BH Group settled their lawsuit last week. The dispute was over what the county's land at the Transit Village site is actually worth. The site sits at Banyan Boulevard and Tamarind Avenue downtown. With the legal fight closed, the project moves ahead: nearly 1,000 apartments across three towers, plus a fourth building. That is a lot of housing landing on a few downtown blocks. It reshapes the traffic, the sidewalks, and the skyline on that corner. Nobody living nearby needs a rendering to picture the cranes.

Saturday afternoon, Hive To Bloom runs a flower arrangement class built around pollinators. It opens with a talk on the role bees and other pollinators play, then moves to the hands-on part. Everyone builds a seasonal floral arrangement. It sounds slight until you are two stems in and completely absorbed, which is rather the point. Tickets are on Eventbrite, and the afternoon is billed around bees, blooms, and summer. Good pick if your Saturday needs one anchor. Better pick if you have been meaning to do something with your hands that is not a phone.

The Kravis Center has relied on volunteer ushers for 34 years. They are the people who take your ticket, point you toward your seat, and keep a full house moving without anyone noticing the work. WPTV spent time with the crew and laid out how to join them. If you go to shows anyway, the trade is not subtle. You give up your evenings and you get to be in the room. It is one of the few volunteer shifts in town that ends with live music. Thirty-four years is a long run for anything held together by goodwill.