Boynton
Landscape Co. has come to the rescue of the remaining palm trees lining Worth
Avenue slated to be removed as part of the ongoing streetscape renovation.
Noel
DelValle, business development manager at the West Palm Beach landscape
contractor, said the firm will take 16 of 20 Christmas palms planted along the
south side of the 300 block Saturday morning.
They
are to be installed on the grounds of the 09.11.01 Memorial Plaza, located at
Palm Beach Gardens Fire-Rescue Department Fire Station No. 3, 5161 Northlake
Blvd. in Palm Beach Gardens. The memorial park is slated for dedication Sept.
11.
The
Christmas palms, which had been offered to anyone willing to pay for their
removal and transport by Burkhardt Construction, the contractor for the Worth
Avenue renovation project, would otherwise have been shipped off to the dump.
“We
are very pleased to see these trees find a home,” said Dennis Haynes,
Burkhardt’s vice president.
DelValle
got in touch with Urban Design Kilday Studios, the West Palm Beach firm
providing site planning and landscape design services for the Sept. 11 memorial
project, with the offer of the trees.
“We
have worked with Urban Design Kilday Studios on previous projects,” he said. “We
would like to place as many of the remaining Worth Avenue trees with nonprofit
organizations, instead of seeing them pulped.”
“We
will use at least 20 trees,” said Anne Booth, Urban Design Kilday Studios
principal.
They
are to be used as part of artist Mark Fuller’s design, which features a portion
of the steel structure from the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center,
destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
DelValle
is eager to place trees with other nonprofit organizations. He estimates that 30
more trees along the south side of the 200 block of Worth Avenue will need to be
removed.
Those
interested in adopting trees with the assistance of Boynton Landscape should
contact DelValle by phone at 722-1776 or by e-mail at
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