Meet Jon Pearlman, the NIMBY organizer who took down Terra and Frisbie’s One Boca proposal

Jon Pearlman rode the coattails of the grassroots NIMBY movement that took down Terra and Frisbie Group’s One Boca proposal all the way to a city council seat.  Pearlman is the founder of Save Boca, the Boca Raton-based organization that led the campaign against Terra and Frisbie’s proposed redevelopment of the city’s government campus.  The months-long fight culminated in the March 10 election that voted down One Boca, and elected Pearlman and two other Save Boca-backed candidates, Michelle Grau and Stacy Sipple, in a landslide win that dramatically shifted the city council to an anti-development majority.  It was a battle […]

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