Stiles Corp. has announced plans for a 172-home lakefront development on one of Boca Raton's last major vacant residential tracts. It will be the first residential project in Boca Raton for the Fort Lauderdale-based company, which has completed a number of commercial projects in the city.

"We've built a tremendous amount of product in Boca over the past 25 years, but this is our first residential project," said Denny O'Shea, president of Stiles Development Co. "We want it to be a signature project."

The unnamed development will rise on 23 acres on Broken Sound Boulevard, just south of Yamato Road. It's the same site that Delray Beach-based Office Depot Inc. once planned to use to build a new world headquarters. The site has since been rezoned to residential. Local residents may also remember the location as the site of the old Boca Raton dog park.

City council to get update on new federal courthouse

LAS CRUCES — Chip Pierpont, General Services Administration project manager, will present a status report to the Las Cruces City Council at its Monday meeting on plans to build a federal courthouse.

The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall, 200 N. Church St.

An $80 million contract to complete design and begin construction of the 230,000-square-foot courthouse was awarded two weeks ago to White Construction Co. of Austin, Texas. Construction of the five-story building is expected to begin in January.

The new courthouse should take three years to complete.

Earlier this year, a mutual agreement between the council and Pierpont was reached where quarterly updates would be presented to the council. In June, Pierpont told the council that cosmetic appearances on the outside of the courthouse might have to be changed or scaled back because of rising construction costs.