The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 59

jjj illi TTn MM I) rr-m ur SECTION BOOK REVIEWS PALM BEACH POST-TIMES. SUNDAY, APRIL 1969 HOBBIES 14 PACES Breakers Plans Major Addition Beach Club rr Is Included rv. 4 jtii; I II itm I i v-tit1 (iiltiiiiC .4 i "'T" New Breakers Beach Club Will Replace Casino Building Removed Last Summer iApartment-Office Units Started By PETE CORDON Buiinrii Editor PALM BEACH The Breakers will start construction this sun.mrr on a Beach Club, an additional 18 hole golf course and club and an addition of 174 rooms to the hotel, Lawrence Lewis president of the Flagler System. has announced. It Is part of a $10 million expansion program planned by the Flagler System, owner and operator of the resort hotel.

All projects are planned for completion during the summer months, said Lewis. The Breakers Beach Club will occupy the site of the old Casino which was Immediately south of the hotel before its removal last summer. The new golf facility, to be known as the Breakers West Golf Club, will be at the southeast comer of Okeechobee Road and SK 7. The 174 rooms will be added to the hotel by extending two wings on the ocean side. The exterior design will follow exactly that of the existing building, according to Lewis.

Immediate work will start on the Breakers Beach Dub. It will retain the Mediterranean character of the hotel, and even the materials for construction will be chosen to give it the same weathered feeling now inherent in the current structure. The designer is the Jacksonville architectural firm of Kemp, Bunch and Jackson. General contractor is the Auchter Jacksonville. The main entrance will be directly across from the present golf club.

Hotel guests will reach the club along a canopied walk from the hotel's south entrance. A large dining area in the Beach Club will surround an oval, fresh-water heated swimming pool. Beamed ceilings range from 12 to 20 feet over the pool in the plans. Glass walls will allow excellent views of the ocean, and the club's sun terrace to the south. Sliding glass panels will open on the ocean-edge deck to the east and the sun terrace.

Room capacity will be 600. There will be two cocktail service areas, one for the dining room, the other for the outdoor area. Locker rooms for 500 men and women will be to the right of the foyer entrance. The locker rooms will have entrances for the sun terrace and the cabanas on the east, which open on the terrace. The terrace is so arranged that sunbathers will have an unobstructed view of the ocean.

There will also be a large salt water swimming pool here, and a wading pool for children. The entire terrace will be sheltered by a glass windbreak on the east. A cabana building will flank the entire south end. All the club buildings will be air conditioned. Lewis said the present cabana area to the south would remain, but will close during the coming summer.

The new golf facility will have a clubhouse and an 18-hole championship course surrounding a 15-acre lake. Regular play will be yards; championship play will be and 5,042 for ladies. The course architect is Willard C. Byrd and Associates of Atlanta, Ga. The club will house a cocktail lounge, locker facilities and a pro-shop.

Harold J. Calloway will be the professional. Club architect is Robert Richardson of Palm Beach, and the interior design is by Hugo in Jacksonville. In creating the new wings for the additional 174 air conditioned rooms, arrangements are being made to extend the ballroom toward the ocean. Additional guest areas will include a second cocktail lounge.

The hotel's circular dining room is to be enlarged by extending it outward, and the main kitchen is to be enlarged and completely re-equipped. Auchter is contractor for the rooms addition and Richard C. Reilly of Fort Lauderdale is the architect. ij wa'ijL 111 the rent-free use of conference rooms." Charbonnet was describing the Koger Properties patented "Kogerama" building, with a construction value of $275,000. The firm now has similar office centers in Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, San Antonio and El Paso, Texas; and Norfolk, W.

Va. It expects to start four new centers in the next 12 months, he said. The second building will be a two-story, 26,000 square foot unit valued at $525,000. It will have much of the exterior walls in glass, screened by wood, and will be elevator equipped. "I believe we originated the clover leaf design," said Charbonnet.

"It is an outcome of our experience in supplying tenants with limited space, but designing the building so we can accommodate them as their business grows." When completed and fitted, most buildings in the project of 13 buildings will be valued at about $600,000 to $700,000. Charbonnet estimates it will take eight years to complete all building on the site. Occupancy of the first building is planned for the end of this year. The Koger-Woodcock combination had its start in Jacksonville in 1895 as a general building contractor. O.

P. Woodcock, the founder died in 1953. Ira Koger, who joined the firm in 1946, is chairman of the board and Wallace F. Foundations were itarted this week for the first 60 units of a 13 million rental apartment complex and a two-building $800,000 office plex on the Hennes Tract on Congress Avenue at 1-95. The projects were first announced December 1967, with the completion of a $2.5 million land deal for 131 acres from Perini Land Development Co.

arranged by Paul L. Hennes and William D. Lipp-man of Jacksonville. It was the largest single deal ever arranged on the Perini holdings In the west of the city. Hennes estimated that when the 131-acre tract is fully developed it should have at least $50 million worth of buildings, a whopping big tax boost for the city.

The tract has a series of 12 sites. Currently under development is the first site for the Granada Apartments by Hennes, and a second site slated eventually for 13 office rental buildings operated by Koger-Wookcock Executive Centers of Jacksonville. "The first office building will be shaped like a three-leaf clover when viewed from above," said Loys Charbonnet III, vice president for Koger-Woodcock. "There will be 15,000 square feet for about 50 small businesses. "A core to the three circular sections will contain secretarial and other services available to all the tenants.

Among the services will be one of its six centers la major cities. Much of the back and side walls will be glass, protected by wood screens. See additional picture on Page F2. RENTAL OFFICES The second building In the Koger-Woodcock executive office project at Congess Avenue and 1-95 will have 26,000 square feet of rental space. It will be i imilar to this one above, located at E.

Kienast is president. Its principals include nearly a dozen leading Florida investors. Hennes Associates plans to build its first 216 apartments in sections of four courtyards, each surrounding 50 to 60 units, and having its own swimming pool and recreation dress. Cont.OnF2,Col.S ill 0 Delta Bonnets In Season By MARY SEMPEPOS Staff Writer Just because a gal is working today doesn't mean she can't parade in her Easter bonnet especially if she's a stewardess with Delta Air Lines. Some 300 of Delta's "coffe-tea-or milk "brigade will greet passengers today attired in original chapieau designs.

Some may be funny some beautiful but all of them will be decorative and bound to be a festive departure from the smart, although more conservative bats, usually worn by the stewardesses. Dubbed by Delta officials "The Fashion Show in the Sky Six Miles High," the event has been an anual one now for at least five years. Not all the girls take part, but most of the airline's 2,000 stewardesses have participated in the show at least once. There is no word whether it has ktimulated ticket sales, or merely acts as an entertainment for passengers. Marcia McClean, with Delta for four years, decided she'd like to see what she could come up with this year and maybe win one of the cash awards the airline gives for outstanding designs.

"It only took about three hours," Marcia explained between flights. ill irry I. other odds and ends purchased at a five-and-dime store in her home town. Penney is vice president and trust officer for the First National Bank in Palm Beach. SERVICE IN STYLE Charles Penney is served coffee by Delta Air Lines Stewardess Marcia McClean of Atlanta, who designed her own Easter bonnet of pink tulle, styrofoam eggs and CLOVER LEAF BUILDING Koger.

Woodcock's first building locally will resemble this patented "Kogerama" building constructed elsewhere. Three circular attached sections gives each office In the bnOdlag a view of landscaped terraces. The firm has built "Kogera-mas" in six cities, and plans to start four more in other cities in the next 12 months..