AKOYA, A NEW LUXURY HIGH RISE COMPLEX COMING TO BOCA WEST

New Boca West Country Club complex, Akoya, scheduled to open in the fall of 2015, will be nine stories high and have 120 private residences. This complex will be the first luxury high-rise to be built in the area in over 25 years.  

Boca West is the #1 private residential country club in the United States, Since 1997 a Platinum Club of America 5-Star Private Club, since 2013 recognized as a Distinguished Emerald Club by BoardRoom Magazine. Two and three bedroom units with den and office options will range from 2676 to 4780 sq ft.  Ceilings are 9’6” high. Outdoor terraces will be expansive and floor-to-ceiling windows will be featured with fairway and lake views.  Prices will range from $1.2MM to over $2MM. All ages welcome.

Staff will include valet, front desk staff and concierge providing “white glove services”, manned gate and Security Patrol. Adding to Boca West’s 300,000+ sq ft of amenities will be a resort-style swimming pool, lavish Grand Room and 24-hour fitness center. Lease OK with 2 pets allowed.

Amenities at Boca West include four golf courses designed by Pete Dye, Arnold Palmer and Jim Fazio, with a 4-acre short game area and a 50-tee driving range.  Golf clinics and lessons are available year around.

There are 31 Har-Tru tennis courts, a world-class spa and aquatics center, salon and six restaurants. Fully stocked golf and tennis pro shops are featured. Boca West was named 2013 USTA Outstanding Facility. Social activities include arts and cultural venues, theatre productions, day trips and cruises.  Classes and lectures will be offered along with organized card games and singles mixers. 


Along with the new luxury condo Akoya development, Boca West Country Club will announce a $50 million, 140,000-square-foot addition to its clubhouse in the near future.
 

The architects who built One Thousand Ocean, GarciaStromberg have designed Akoya. Interiors will be by award-winning Steve G., well known worldwide for fashionable metropolitan styles.  Club Membership fee of $70,000 (one time) and annual dues will be mandatory. 

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Next  Luncheon Meeting: Monday Mar 3, 2014

BOGARTS, 3200 Airport Road, Boca Raton

Gershon Baskin, Ph.D., Author of The Secret Negotiations

Gershon Baskin, Ph.D., was the initiator and the person responsible for the secret back channel between Israel and the Hamas that successfully negotiated the release of Israeli abducted soldier Gilead Schalit.  His book on the secret negotiations was published in Hebrew in June 2013 (לשחרר את גלעד) and in English in October 2013 (The Negotiator – Freeing Gilad Schalit from Hamas – Toby Press)

 From 1988 – 2011, Dr. Baskin was the Israeli Co-Director and founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) – a joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think and “do”-tank located in Jerusalem.   Since January 2012 he is the Co-Chairman of IPCRI’s Board of Directors. He initiated the founding of IPCRI in 1988 following ten years of work in the field of Jewish-Arab relations within Israel, in Interns for Peace where he lived for two years in the Israeli-Palestinian village of Kufr Qara, the Ministry of Education and as Executive Director of the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence (established by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister’s Office at Baskin’s initiative).  

During the Premiership of the late Yitzhak Rabin, he served as an advisor on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to a secret team of intelligence officers established by Mr. Rabin. Dr. Baskin was a member of the Jerusalem Experts Committee established by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office during the Final Status Negotiations in 2000-2001. 

Dr. Baskin holds a Ph.D. in International Affairs from University of Greenwich.  His dissertation was on Sovereignty and Territory in the Future of Jerusalem, parts of which were published as a book Jerusalem of Peace.  

He is a member of the steering committee of the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum, a member of the Board of ALLMEP – the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a member of the Editorial Board of the Palestinian Israeli Journal, and a member of the Board of One Voice. Dr. Baskin is also a member of the Israeli Council for Peace and Security. He was a founding chairman of the progressive Synagogue Kehilat Kol Haneshama in Jerusalem where he served as Chairman for three years. 

He has a regular column in the Jerusalem Post Newspaper and was for two years a radio host on All for Peace Radio.  Dr. Baskin has now also begun writing a bi-weekly opinion piece on the Palestinian new web site Ma’an News.  Dr. Baskin has been awarded the Histadrut Prize for Peace in 1996, the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute Peace Prize in 2004, the Tribute of Honor and Courage from the World Movement for Democracy in 2004 and the Search for Common Ground Journalist Award for Middle East Journalism in 2005 and 2007 as well as the Ordine Della Stella Della Solidarieta Italiana. Dr. Baskin speaks Hebrew, English and Arabic. 

Since January 2012 Dr. Baskin is working to develop renewable energy projects around the Middle East focusing on Palestine and Egypt.  He is also a consultant to the USAID supported TRADE PROJECT run by Deloitte Consulting aimed at reducing the costs of Palestinian trade in the West Bank and Gaza. 

11:30-1 PM, Monday, March 3rd at Bogarts, 3200 Airport Road, Boca Raton

Members: $25 in advance; $35 at the door - Guests: $35 in advance, $45 at the door.

 register at www.goldcoasttigerbayclub.com