05/04/2026
Bringing 3031 South Ocean Boulevard to life 🌴
Our newly approved plans (as of mid‑April 2026) move 3031 South Ocean from vision to reality, and this post looks at the precedents and landscape strategy shaping the design.
Architecturally, we’re looking back to Palm Beach and beyond: Lido Cap Villa and Cap Ferrat, Casa de Leona, Addison Mizner’s work along Lake Worth, and even the lakeside villas of Lake Como in Italy. These places share a few key traits—layered facades, shifting building heights, and intimate green courts that reach all the way to the water’s edge.
You’ll see that logic in our street elevation: a gently curving building line, changing heights in the street wall, and pockets of planting that break up the massing and frame views. The north side addresses the bridge on the left; the south side reads the bridge on the right, so the building becomes a calm, classical backdrop to movement along the causeway.
Landscape is central to the project. We’re working with new mangrove plantings along the water, in collaboration with MANG Consulting Services, to stabilize the edge and restore native ecology. HMWhite’s drawings explore how Spanish‑influenced hardscape and advanced site‑drainage technology allow non‑permeable surfaces to support lush planting without compromising performance.
For brokers, builders, and anyone who cares about the details: this is a waterfront building designed from the landscape out—where architecture, planting, and infrastructure are all working together to create long‑lasting value on one of Palm Beach’s most sensitive shorelines.
