A half-acre lot in West Palm Beach's emerging Cultural Quarter is about to become one of the city's most exclusive addresses — a 26-story tower where each of the 16 main residences claims an entire floor to itself.
Planned for 201 and 203 Arkona Court, just east of Olive Avenue and a short walk from the Norton Museum of Art, the boutique tower would total roughly 156,400 square feet of full-floor living, a private club, and a carefully orchestrated relationship with the art district rising around it. The full-floor condominiums begin on the 11th floor, each at least 6,000 square feet, with a penthouse spanning the top two levels — a one-home-per-floor rarity for West Palm Beach. Below them, on the sixth and seventh floors, sit 16 smaller guest suites for residents' visitors.
The building's social heart is a 10,500-square-foot private membership club with a kitchen, bar, pool, fitness center, and treatment rooms. At street level, a healthy market café and 2,270 square feet of retail open the base of the tower toward the neighboring sculpture park, served by 123 parking spaces.
What sets the project apart is how deliberately it orients toward art. The tower is designed around the Norton's planned Culture Park as its front door, with its principal entry, café frontage, and a landmark sculpture all facing the green, extending the museum's "dialogue between art and landscape" onto a parcel that has historically turned its back on it. The intent, as the project's team frames it, is not to imitate its cultural neighbors but to be worthy of them, giving the Culture Park's western edge a sculptural anchor and visitors arriving from the Norton, the surrounding sculpture pockets, and the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens a continuous, art-rich civic walk.
Designed by architecture firm SCB, the tower is a partnership between two heavyweight backers. Easton Street Capital — the Palm Beach firm led by Rob Frisbie Jr. and Cody Crowell, both formerly of the Frisbie Group — has joined with 1789 Capital, the investment firm led by Donald Trump Jr. and Omeed Malik.