Article: Boca Raton wants to boost downtown with another pedestrian plaza: 'Spine' would link Royal Palm Place, Mizner.

Byline: Luis F. Perez

Aug. 5--Boca Raton So this is what more than $100 million in public spending gets you for a downtown.

It's Friday night and a clock tower in Mizner Park just around the corner from Starbucks strikes 8. The plaza that opened in 1991 -- amid a swirl of lawsuits, bitter public battles and tens of millions of dollars in public and private spending -- starts breathing night-life air.

Since the late 1980s, city leaders have borrowed about $70 million for Mizner and spent another $34 million on downtown infrastructure and beautification.

Now their ambitions include paving the way for a developer to build a new plaza, ...

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