Warehouses Will Rise Around Bedner’s Market In Palm Beach County’s Ag Reserve

In the clash between development interests and preserving some of South Florida’s last remaining undeveloped land, Palm Beach County officials recently approved bringing warehouses and office space to part of the Agricultural Reserve. The request for the warehouses was made by Bedner Bros Farms Inc., which is behind Bedner’s Farm Fresh Market in West Boynton, a longstanding staple that provides local produce near the intersection of Lee Road and State Road 7. The planned warehouses with office space, encompassing about 180,000 square feet, would rise on two separate plots of land directly to the north and south of Bedner’s Market. The plan became contentious when some groups of people, those intent on keeping the Ag Reserve free of development, realized the request would grant an exception. The Bedners declined to comment to the South Florida Sun Sentinel about the recent plan, but Jennifer Morton, a landscape architect, represented the Bedner family at a county meeting on Aug.