Boca has a different city manager as of midnight, the police headquarters question is headed for your March ballot with a smaller number on it, and sixty apartments are about to replace an office parking lot.

Let's get into it.

James L. Zervis, the deputy city manager and CFO, picked up the city manager's powers at 12 a.m. today under the city charter, with Mark Sohaney stepping back from active service ahead of his November 11 resignation.

Sohaney stays on in an advisory role until November 11, then starts at the University of Maryland Global Campus on November 30.

A permanent appointment was not on Tuesday night's agenda, so the word interim is doing a lot of work here.

Thirteen months in the chair, and the parking still is not fixed.

Source: The Boca Raton Tribune

Ballot language for up to $125 million in general obligation bonds to replace the 40-year-old police headquarters went back to the council Tuesday night, aimed at the March 9, 2027 city election.

About $93 a year on a home with $475,000 of taxable value, against the $123.74 version Boca voted down in March.

The current station is 35,000 square feet and holds 331 people. It was built in 1986 for 145.

They cut sixty five million off the ask. Now they find out if that was the problem.

Source: The Coastal Star

The Bertani at Broken Sound went to the council Tuesday night for its final vote, eight stories and 60 units on the parking lot of two 1984 office buildings, after the planning board approved it unanimously on October 15.

Six of the 60 are affordable rentals, locked in for 30 years after the building opens.

Residents get a second floor spa, a pool, a club room and a golf simulator on 11 acres backing onto the Old Course, at 5901 and 6001 NW Broken Sound Parkway. A 2,700 square foot restaurant or retail building goes up with it.

A golf simulator, on a golf course. Boca is nothing if not thorough.

Source: Boca Daily News

Her Health Summit takes over The Studio at Mizner Park from 1:00pm, eight hours on hormones, longevity and emotional wellbeing with Cynthia L. Elliott keynoting and Dr. Michelle Weiner, Paige Kornblue and Laura Waldorf Reiss on the bill. Tickets run $40.25 to $135.23 and it is still open. See who is speaking.
The Studio at Mizner Park, 201 W Plaza Real, Boca Raton.

Burtons Grill runs Wine Wednesday all day, every bottle on the list at half price with no dinner attached, and the kitchen is open 11:30am to 10:00pm. Nobody writes up Wednesday out this way, which is part of the appeal. See the deal.
Burtons Grill & Bar, 5580 N Military Trail, Boca Raton. 561-465-2036.

Networking Night with The Social Arcade runs its Halloween edition at Quest Workspaces from 6:00 to 8:30pm, and every ticket comes with a drink, one mini game and three group games, a raffle and costume prizes. It is $17.85 and nobody under eighteen is in the room. Grab a ticket.
Quest Workspaces, 1200 N Federal Hwy Ste 300, Boca Raton.

The Pre-Halloween Happy Hour for Singles runs 5:30 to 8:30pm at THRōW Social, free, ages 30 to 45, with a live DJ and giant Jenga and Connect Four instead of forced introductions. The venue's own happy hour runs 4:00 to 7:00pm, so turn up early. Claim a free spot.
THRōW Social, 29 SE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. 800-561-0755.

Wear the costume. You will feel worse if you are the only one who did not.

Readers just handed the seed. top honors in the Observer's 2026 dining awards, which went up on Monday, and the downtown room has 997 Google reviews behind it. Doors at 7:00am Wednesday, last pour 5:00pm.

The autumn board gets torn down and rebuilt every season, so the pumpkin spice matcha and the apple pie chai under caramel cold foam are gone the day the season is.

The Pumpkin Spice Matcha is $6.95, the Iced Apple Pie Chai the same, and the Bagel Bomb in pralines and cream is $7.25. There are two of these in Boca and this is the original.
the seed. Coffee + Juice Bar, 199 W Palmetto Park Rd E, Boca Raton. 561-430-5640.

Order the matcha now. November is not going to wait for you.

Staci Dial spent about fifteen years cooking on private yachts before she opened Namaste Nail Sanctuary, and readers just voted it runner-up for mani-pedi in the 2026 Readers' Choice. Google has it at 4.7 from 98.

Every chair has its own meditation audio and the room is kept dark and phone-free, so you walk out of a manicure genuinely rested.

Open 10:00am to 7:00pm Wednesday. 3D nail art is $65, a Russian hard gel set with extensions is $115, Gel-X is $79, and chrome or cat eye is $15 on top.
Namaste Nail Sanctuary & Day Spa, 5250 Town Center Circle Ste 127, Boca Raton. 561-299-5439.

Book the 3D art, then hand over the phone.

Monica McMahon has been running Get Fit Retreats since 2022, 113 events and 543 people through them, and her sunrise class on the sand goes every Wednesday, 7:00 to 8:00am.

You are done, salted and back in the car before the rest of Boca has found its keys.

It is $17.85, there are still spots, and it runs through December 30. Sunrise on Wednesday is 7:26am, so you will watch it come up out of the water mid-class.
South Beach Park, N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

Set the alarm. You get to be smug all day.

René Ruiz was born in Cuba, took a Miami fashion design degree in 1990 and then apprenticed across Europe learning couture technique. He sits on the Miami Dade College Fashion Institute advisory board, his creative director Luis Escudero trained in Paris, and the store holds 4.9 from 229.

Saks and Neiman Marcus both carry the label, and this is the only standalone Rene Ruiz store in south Palm Beach County.

Open 10:00am to 5:00pm Wednesday. A lace halter column midi is $249.99, a strapless crepe cocktail is $445 and a square-neck crepe A-line gown is $1,895.
Rene Ruiz Collection, 2200 Glades Rd Ste 506, Boca Raton. 561-931-3065.

Buy it first. Find the wedding later.

Designer's Mark has been working out of a plaza in Logger's Run for more than twenty-five years, and it is an official Romo showcase, which is the British fabric house most of the pretty rooms around here are quietly built from. Houzz gave it Best of Houzz for service and rates it 5.0 from 8.

Being a showcase means the full Romo books are on the table in front of you, so you are feeling the weave instead of guessing at it off a screen.

Open 10:00am to 5:00pm Wednesday. They quote by the project rather than publishing a list, so go in with your measurements and the room in your head.
Designer's Mark, 10018 Spanish Isles Blvd Ste A8, Boca Raton. 561-961-4149.

Take a cushion you already own. It makes the whole thing faster.

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Her Health Summit opens the doors at one in Mizner Park, with Cynthia Elliott keynoting and four more women on the bill. Burtons pours all day, the costume night at Quest runs six to half eight, and if you would rather drive, the free singles mixer up in Delray starts at half five.

Order the matcha before November takes it, book the 3D nail art and hand the phone over, set an alarm for the sand, try the dress on before you have anywhere to wear it, and go put your hands on the fabric out west.

The Good in Boca Team