Boca Raton

Boca Raton is a vibrant community full of golf and tennis, boating on the Intracoastal Waterway, and two miles of world-class, white-sand beaches. The restaurant scene rivals that of cities 10 times its size, and there’s a Rodeo Drive’s worth of luxury tucked into what might pass for a bedroom community anywhere else in the Miami suburbs. Like many South Florida cities, Boca Raton came to be through the vision of real estate developers, but Boca was lucky because town founder Addison Mizner was an architect. He had established a reputation with New York society and carried it to Palm Beach, then set his eyes on farmland to the south and printed fancy brochures to lure in residents. Though Mizner’s vision was unrealized for the most part, his aesthetic mindset has shaped the town ever since. Nearly a hundred years later, Boca is more brochure-worthy than Mizner could have imagined.