Community Profiles

The Village of Palm Springs
The village of Palm Springs spans across a 2.0 square miles area and is home to 12,351 inhabitants. Palm Springs was founded in 1957. The Christ Community Church can be visited for Sunday service. Two elementary schools, Palm Springs Elementary and Clifford O. Taylor Kirklane Elementary; and two private schools, Palm Springs Christian School and St. Luke's Catholic School, are located in the area of Palm Springs. For its youth Palm Springs offers a winter, a spring, and a summer Youth Vacation Camp. Music, dancing, oil painting, and sports classes are available for preschool kids, youth, teenagers, and adults. For recreation purposes Sago Park, Village Center Play Area and the Athletic Complex are open and ready to enjoy.

Since the early 1960s the village of Palm Springs has supported a public library. The library is dedicated to providing Palm Springs residents the best possible library service. It strives to provide cultural, educational, economic, and recreational benefits through its collection and services.

Palm Springs Town Hall, 101 Davis Rd., Lake Worth, FL 33461
Phone: (561) 641-1273
For information call (561)-965-4010 or visit the homepage at www.villageofpalmsprings.org.

Lake Clarke Shores
Founded in the late 1940's, Lake Clarke Shores was incorporated in 1957. Pineapples promised big business in South Florida. John Clarke, son of a Palm Beach pioneer, had the money to buy five acres of land just south of the present Hillcrest Cemetery on Parker Avenue. There he planted pineapples and built a packinghouse to prepare the fruit for shipping to northern cities. An agricultural blight and Henry Flagler's railroad destroyed South Florida's pineapple farms. When the railroad extended to Key West, Cuban "pinas" could be loaded and shipped to northern markets more economically.

Today 3,600 inhabitants are living on one square mile in Lake Clarke Shores. The Emmanuel Baptist Church, the New Life Alliance Church, and the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints are offering their services. For information on schools call Palm Beach County School district at (561) 434-8100. For leisure time activities Lake Clarke Shores offers the Town Hall Park and Playground, the Heart Trail and exercise stations, the Pine Tree Park, a boat ramp, tennis courts, a garden club and a town pavilion, which can be rented for multiple occasions.

As a full-service municipality, the Town of Lake Clarke Shores provides police service, garbage and trash collection. The majority of the town's industry is made up of educational, health and social services with 24 %, followed by professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services with 16 %. 13 % of the industry belongs to the category finance, insurance, real estate; and another 13 % belong to rental and leasing. The retail sector is represented by 9 %.

For information call the Town Hall at (561) 964-1515 or visit the homepage at www.townoflakeclarkeshores.com.

The City of Atlantis
The City of Atlantis is located in Palm Beach County Florida. This 834-acre development was formerly known as Mulberry Farms and owned by former State Senator Philip D. Lewis, who formed the Mission Company to raise Brahman cattle. Having been granted its charter June 19, 1959, the first Council for the City was appointed. Early development in 1960 and 1961 included the Atlantis Inn and Golf Clubhouse, along with the first 18-hole golf course. Today Atlantis is home to the Atlantis Country Club and the Atlantis Golf Club. The permanent population of Atlantis is 2,005. A residents survey investigated factors that were most important to respondents in their decision to live in Atlantis. The top three reasons for choosing Atlantis were appearance (72.8 %), security (69.8%) and location (68.9%)*. This is why 43 % of the total land area is devoted to recreation and permanent open space. The police department has a very straightforward mission statement: to affirmatively promote, preserve and deliver a feeling of security, safety and quality service to the members of our community.

The primary commercial industry in Atlantis is the JFK Medical Center and the surrounding doctor's offices. JFK Medical Center was named again as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals.

Starlight Cove Community Elementary School, Tradewinds Middle School, and Santaluces High School are the three schools in Atlantis.
The City of Atlantis Utilities provides customers with the convenience of autopay for their utility bills. By providing the bank information, the city will automatically deduct the utilities payment from the bank account.

More information and various forms are available on the city's homepage at www.atlantisfla.org.

The City of Greenacres
The City of Greenacres was incorporated in 1926 and reincorporated in 1947. In Greenacres 29,883 inhabitants are living on 5.2 square miles. Residents take great pride in its sense of community, its improved neighborhood parks, impressive landscaped medians and landscaping programs. Parks to visit are Bowman, Burrowing Owl Park, Empire Park, Gladiator Park, Community Park, Heather Estate, Ira Van Bullock Park, Ramblewood Park, Rambo Park, Veteran's Memorial Park and Freedom Park. For the eleventh year, the City was named a Tree City USA and Growth Award recipient.
Many innovative programs continue to make the City stand out as "A Good Place to Live, Work and Play".

Sports, Computer, Finance and Spanish classes are available for adults and youth. There are five elementary schools, one middle and one high school within the city limits. So nobody feels left out, Senior Services are also offered. To entertain the kids a Kool Kids and LASER Camp take place every year. A child care program runs year round to assist with homework, and to interest the children in a drama or photo club, baseball, kickball or reading.
Greenacres cares a lot about its teenagers, giving them a perspective by providing supervised fun on Friday and Saturday evenings, including X-Box video games, billiards, table tennis, foosball, cooking, dancing, and homework assistance.

To educate the residents and business owners of Greenacres about the structure and activities of the Department of Public Safety the City established a Citizen Education Program. Every year the City of Greenacres has a variety of community events and programs that bring people together, e.g. the Great American Cleanup.

John I. Leonard, 4701 10th Ave., N., Greenacres, FL 33463, Phone: (561) 641-1200
Greenacres, 405 Jackson Ave., Greenacres, FL 33463, Phone: (561) 641-1287

More information and various forms are available on the city's homepage at www.ci.greenacres.fl.us