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.

Reunion Builder Gives Away Weber Grill & Cash

Joe and Megan Selkey of Westminster are interested in moving to the master-planned community of Reunion. They toured the community and model homes during the Parade of Homes event, running July 29 through September 4, and stopped by Berkeley Homes, a Colorado-based home builder, at Southlawn Park. "Berkeley's homes are beautiful and definitely at the top of our consideration list," Selkey said. "Berkeley was holding a promotion at the time so we decided to register, never thinking we'd actually win." The promotion encouraged homebuyers to register at Berkeley's model homes to win a Weber Genesis Platinum Gas Grill and $500 cash. "We rarely win anything so we were pleasantly surprised when a Berkeley Homes representative called us," Selkey said. "A full-sized Weber grill is certainly a wonderful upgrade from the tiny grill we have now and the $500 is an even better perk.