Glass Repair & Replacement in Boynton Beach, FL

Boynton Beach split its history right down the Intracoastal. The town incorporated in 1920, and when its oceanfront section broke away in 1931 it briefly used the name Boynton Beach before renaming itself Ocean Ridge in 1939. The original mainland Town of Boynton took the Boynton Beach name for itself in 1941, and that mainland side, west of the Intracoastal, is the city here today. Its established, inland neighborhoods carry a lot of that older housing stock, single-family homes from the mid-century decades with original aluminum-frame jalousie and awning windows that were never built to any wind-borne debris standard because that code didn't exist yet. Leisureville, one of the city's long-established neighborhoods, is a good example: big lots, a real mix of ranch homes and later remodels, and window ages that are all over the map depending on which owner touched the house last. Downtown is going through a real rebuild right now, with the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency pushing new residential and mixed-use construction toward the water, and the coastal high-rises that have gone up along that stretch, buildings like Marina Village from 2006 and Casa Costa from 2010, sit right on the Intracoastal a couple blocks from downtown with the kind of impact-rated glazing that's standard in anything built that recent.

West of downtown, the city looks nothing like that older core. Communities like the Valencia developments built by GL Homes starting in the late 1990s and running through the early 2000s, guard-gated 55-and-over neighborhoods sitting near and south of Hypoluxo Road, are a different build era from the older inland neighborhoods closer to downtown, and it shows in the glass: newer aluminum and impact-rated products out west as a matter of when they were built, older single-pane and non-impact glazing in a lot of the established homes closer to the water.

Boynton Harbor Marina is the fact that sets this city apart from every other one on this list. The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency bought the marina in March 2006 specifically to keep it a public, working waterfront rather than let it go private, and it's one of the few municipally owned commercial marinas left anywhere in Florida. Nineteen water-activity businesses and three restaurants run out of that public marina property today, which makes the glass and storefront work along that stretch a mix of public marina infrastructure and private commercial tenants I don't deal with anywhere else in the county, because no other city on this list owns its own working marina.