Delray Marketplace Parking Update

–Update: I just spoke with Jason Samreny who was described by the person who referred him to me as VP of leasing for the plaza. He indicated that they are adding 202 “temporary” parking spaces and they should be ready by December 1st. That would be a roughly 18% increase. The word temporary is something the county applies to them. From the way he said it, it sounded like they might actually be permanent.
Regarding a long-term solution to the parking problem he declined to comment other than to say they’re working on it. I asked specifically about a parking structure and he said he couldn’t comment. I also asked about the multi-unit residential buildings (i.e. apartments or condos) that are in the plans filed with the county. He said he couldn’t say anything about that either.
He did make a point to thank us for our patronage and positive comments about the theater, restaurants and stores. We hope that the additional parking is sufficient.
–See bottom for plan document showing buildings in proposed parking area.–

We took a look at the new parking area being added to Delray Marketplace yesterday. This is on the north side of the Frank Theatre, close to Lyons Road.
In the photo at top you can see the back side of the theater on the left and the area they’re working on. There is a lot of room but it’s impossible to tell how many spaces this will add. It’s our impression that the plaza currently has less than 1100 spaces (Mr. Samreny says it’s a bit over 1100, though we saw a number in documents indicating 1050).
According to a county document from January, this space north of the theater was intended for multifamily residential buildings. See picture at bottom. It’s unclear how much of the space will go to that as opposed to parking.
The picture below shows a close up of the work we saw yesterday.

Finally, here is a view from the west side of the area looking toward Lyons.

We at West Boca News are fans of a Delray Marketplace but the parking remains a disappointment.
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Update: We found a plan document that’s fairly recent, showing that much of this area will be occupied by residential buildings. See image below: