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Spotlight on The Residences at Midtown

Residences at Midtown

Palm Beach Gardens has grown to become a great place to live.  In recent years, the area has flourished with the addition of PGA Commons, Downtown Gardens and The Residences at Midtown.  Thinking about buying a home?  The Residences at Midtown may be the place for you.  It is an upscale community for those who want luxury without sacrificing convenience.  Granite counters, stainless steel appliances, standard crown moulding are just a few of the standard luxury amenities included.  Here you will enjoy the convenience of nearby restaurants and shoppes where many cultural events are held throughout the year.   This is cosmopolitan living with all the worldly amenities necessary for entertaining your guests and for your personal enjoyment.     A professionally designed and comfortably lavish clubhouse fully equipped with every imaginable amenity necessary, including a full kitchen, bar and media room for entertaining.  Each building is secured entry into a beautifully designed lobby leading to private residences.

The Residences at Midtown are offering a price reduction in home purchases.  One bedroom condominiums for sale start at $99,900, two bedrooms start at $124,900 and three bedrooms at $189,900.  Shop smart and always view homes sold through a developer with a Realtor®.  Your Realtor® is familiar with current offers and can negotiate the best offer for you.

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Cielo Town Homes in Palm Beach Gardens

Cielo Townhomes - Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Stainless Steel Appliances

One of the sought after communities in Palm Beach Gardens has been homes for sale and rent in Cielo.  Located in a gated community of over 150 -  two and three level town homes. Each town home is elegantly designed with granite throughout the kitchen and baths, stainless steel appliances, tile and carpet and much more.   Amenities include a clubhouse, pool and secured pedestrian path to the shops and restaurants at Donald Ross Village.  Shops include, but not limited to, a Gold’s Gym, CVS, MedExpress, Hurricane Cafe, Grande’s Bella Cucina.

Two – two level town homes are available for rent starting at $1,950/month.  Prices for town homes for sale begin at $264,000.

Call Susanne Quirk at (561) 386-0350 for more information

or

E-mail me to request to see properties available for rent or sale

Complete Specifications:

• Hurricane impact windows
• Raised panel wood cabinets
• Granite kitchen countertops
• 20′ porcelain tile on diagonal
• Large master bedroom with large walk-in closet
• Granite countertops in master bath with dual sinks
• Roman tub
• Two level town homes include a large loft area on second floor
• Covered patio with pavers
• Gated community with resort style heated pool and spa
• Secured pedestrian walkway to shopping and dining at Donald Ross Village

Susanne Quirk is a Realtor® with Cobblestone Realty specializing in residential homes in Jupiter, Juno Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Contact Susanne at (561) 386-0350, e-mail, or visit our website www.CobblestoneFL.com to learn more.

Midtown Art in the Gardens This Weekend

Just a quick mention…Midtown is having it’s third annual Art in the Gardens this weekend.  Free cultural arts event featuring 75 regional artists from Southeast Florida.

While you are there, you can support our local businesses by visiting the shops and restaurants in Midtown.  As you know from previous postings, III Forks is one of our favorite dining places.  On the more casual side, Pizza Fusion is awesome!  Enjoy.

Susanne Quirk is a Realtor® with Cobblestone Realty specializing in oceanfront and luxury homes in Juno Beach and Jupiter, Florida. Contact Susanne at (561) 386-0350, e-mail, or visit her website, The Juno Beach Realtor.

Advertise Your Business on Blogging Jupino

As a community blog we like to provide current information about the community, people and businesses in Jupiter and the surrounding areas.  We have grown tremendously since our inception just one year ago.  Blogging has been a tremendous way for us to meet new people and learn more about the area we live in.  We would like to share our success with everyone in our community by asking you to send us an article about your place of business, neighborhood or story about your favorite place in Palm Beach County.

Interesting and captivating articles will be posted on our blog for everyone to see.  We want articles that serve a purpose to our readers.  Just telling us about your business simply won’t do.  Be creative and send us your best!  Pictures are highly encouraged. 

We are fortunate to recieve high traffic volume each month from readers around the world.  This is a free service for those working or living in Jupiter and surrounding areas.

Help us to make Blogging Jupino the best community blog in Palm Beach County.

Send your articles and questions to squirk@cobblestonefl.com.  No hard copies please.  Digital format only.

Restaurant Reviews for North Palm Beach

We love to eat out with friends and family.  We dine out often and have visited many restaurants in the area.  (See our previous postings.)  Although, when I was reading the Restaurant Reviews in the Palm Beach Post, I realized there are many places I haven’t tried.  So, I’m now on a mission to try some of them.  

Since there are so many to choose from, I decided to share with you the highest rated reviews (restaurants listed are all rated A for Food and A for Service) in the Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens and Juno Beach areas.   (Some I have already visited and shared my thoughts in blue.)  Try them out for yourself and let me know what you think.  I’ll be sure to share my reviews in later postings.  

Cinematic Couture at Palm Beach Gardens Mall

The kids, grandma and I spent Saturday doing what every girls favorite past time…shopping for shoes! I make no apologies, it needed to be done! The kids each left victoriously with a pair of shoes in hand! Nothing is more satisfying than finding perfect pair of shoes.

We shopped at The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens. Over past few years, the mall has immensely improved with designer stores such as Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Chanel and more. The interior design has been updated to attract the sophisticated shoppers in the area.

This month The Gardens Mall has a fascinating exhibit, Cinematic Couture, of costumes used in recent films. There they have 40 costumes on display from movies such as:

The exhibit will be on display through April 28. Visit Gardensmall.com.

Palm Beach Gardens Restaurants Win Florida Trend’s Golden Spoon Award

Two of our local restaurants were crowned winners of Florida Trend’s Top 20 Best New Restaurants. Both located in Palm Beach Gardens, III Forks at Midtown PGA and Amazonia Brazillian Grill in Legacy Place were both listed as restaurants worth checking out. See our review of III Forks. We haven’t returned there, but we have heard nothing but great reviews from friends and acquaintances. Check out Palm Beach Post critic, Charles Passey’s review of Amazonia.

We haven’t visited Amazonia yet, but feel free to leave your own review in our comments section. We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Celebrate Halloween at PGA Commons

PGA Commons is celebrating Halloween today at 4:00 p.m.

Spooky schedule:

4-6 p.m. – Trick-or-treating for youngsters at participating stores and restaurants

5-7 p.m. – Family-style dinner specials at Oakwood Grill, Spoto’s Oyster Bar and Vic & Angelos

7 p.m. – Pet Costume Parade

Be safe and Happy Halloween!

Proposed School Boundary Changes Loom Over Jupiter Families

Written by Susanne Quirk

Palm Beach County has experienced considerable growth in the past few years.  As a result, boundary changes occur to reduce overcrowding in the schools.  The changes have stirred a lot of emotions with Jupiter residents, causing county officials and residents to lash out at each other due to the latest pending changes that will effect students at Lighthouse Elementary and Beacon Cove Intermediate.

It is a known fact that when families are searching for a new home, one main consideration is the school their children will attend.  Parents are willing to pay more money to live in a neighborhood within an “A” rated school. zones  The calls at Cobblestone Realty start coming in a couple of months before the end of each school year and throughout the summer with parents desperately looking for a place to live in specific “A-rated” communities so their children can attend the best schools.

Those efforts are often destroyed when the school board imposes boundary changes and, understandably, some very angry parents begin to emerge.  Currently, parents in North Palm Beach Heights and the Bluffs are fighting to keep their children at Lighthouse Elementary and Beacon Cove.  The 03-X Palm Beach Gardens Area (Mirosol) changes are detailed in the studies provided on the ABC calendar.

Parents affected by the proposal are urged to attend the upcoming meetings and let your voice be heard.  Two future meetings to attend include:

Proposed boundary change for 03-X Mirosal Elementary
Monday, October 29, 2007
Independence Middle School
6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria
4001 Greenway Drive
Jupiter, Florida 33458
(561) 799-7500

Advisory Committee Meeting
November 1, 2007
6:30-9:00 p.m.
FHESC Boardroom

Check the ABC Calendar for meeting details.

Having gone though the recent changes effecting the Jupiter High School/William T. Dwyer boundaries, we strongly urge that you stay on top of the meetings, plan your strategies and contact your public officials often to voice your concerns. The Palm Beach County School Board carries the ultimate decision regrading boundary changes.  

Dining Out In Palm Beach Gardens

Written by Susanne Quirk

We went to III Forks Saturday night.  It’s the new steakhouse in the Midtown section on PGA Boulevard.  Joe knows that I am a huge steak eater.  (I grew up on steak and potatoes and as my hubby and close friends have found, I consistently order the same thing no matter where we eat – filet mignon and I’d like it Oscar’d please!)  So, he thought it would be only fitting to treat me to a steak since it was our anniversary…what a great guy.

The restaurant is tucked in with a few other businesses now open in the new Midtown district.  Valet parking is provided.  The restaurant is your typical old style steakhouse – dark mahogany paneling, low lights and the staff is dressed in black and white. 

Upon entering the restaurant, you get a view of the walk-in wine cellar which is both big and impressive.  Our table was not ready so we squeezed our way through the crowd to get to the bar for a drink.  The bar area was very spacious with plenty of bar tables for casual dining.  There is also a piano for live entertainment.

On the positive side, the restaurant is beautiful and is drawing a large crowd.  The menu is not completely a la carte.  Your entree comes with a vegetable and potatoes.  Salad is extra.  Included with the entree are fresh tomatoes and spring onions and presented to you on a platter.

We tried to take into consideration that the establishment is new and the staff is still learning.  However, by the end of the evening, we could clearly see that the customer service needed some work.  The hostess  handed us the menu before we were seated.   It took some time for the waiter to greet us.  He didn’t seem to be receptive to our polite, but constructive criticism when we noted that the lobster bisque was cold and as Joe put it, “coagulated.”  There was a long wait between courses but the waiter was quick to get back to the table to see the size of the tip that Joe left.

For the price, I would expect the experience to be a little more memorable in terms of entree, dessert and service.  It wasn’t outstanding but it was good.  I wouldn’t be opposed to trying it again if friends or family were interested in eating there.

We make it a point to “rank order” the various Steak House’s in the area and I think we will “pencil in” our ranking of III Forks only because of the “newness” of the restaurant but rest assured, they did not knock off our number one spot.  

I promised Joe that I would not disclose the name of our best steak house just yet. 

Tell us your favorite Steak House.  We would love to try it.