Longboat Key Hilton renovations planned

The Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort is getting a complete makeover and additional beds.

The Key's town staff met recently with Andy Berger, vice president of operations of the Delray Beach-based Ocean Properties Ltd., which owns the Longboat Key Hilton, attorney John Patterson and architect John Wurst, of the Coral Gables firm, Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates, to discuss how to proceed with the plan.

“Ocean Properties has decided to go forward as rapidly as possible,” Patterson told The Longboat Observer. “We're hoping for commencement of construction in May 2013. That's the end result we have to get to.”