West Palm Beach interior design: a Florida portfolio built for the growth corridor

About HH Designers and our work in West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach is having the growth decade most cities plan for and never get: a downtown filling with financial firms relocated from the Northeast, Class A residential towers rising around Rosemary Square and along the waterfront, a hospitality market upgrading to meet the visitors those firms bring, and a county — Palm Beach — whose senior population makes it one of the most important healthcare markets in America. HH Designers serves it from a national platform: 21 states, more than 60 million square feet designed, $2 billion in construction documentation, and a Florida portfolio deep enough that this state is home ground rather than an away game.

The nearest proof is inside the county. Cascade Health & Rehabilitation in Delray Beach is a completed HH Designers project in Palm Beach County, and it sits within a statewide healthcare portfolio that includes Fort Lauderdale Health & Rehab at 100,000 square feet, AVIA Skilled Nursing in Leesburg, TimberRidge in Ocala, Carlton Shores in Daytona Beach, Village Place in Port Charlotte, and Ocean Crest in West Melbourne.

Beyond healthcare, we bring the sectors this corridor is actually building: community and religious institutions — where our Florida work includes Eden Gardens in Orlando and the Chabad Jewish Center of St. Petersburg, backed by more Chabad houses designed than any firm in the world — plus hospitality, multifamily, and master planning, including an ongoing master-planned community of 4,000 homes in Okeechobee, about an hour inland from West Palm Beach.

Healthcare and senior living across Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County’s senior demographics guarantee demand; its arriving residents guarantee scrutiny. Operators here compete for people who toured senior living in New York and New Jersey before relocating, and the buildings that win read as hospitality first: arrival lobbies that reassure families, dining that residents choose, therapy environments that motivate, and finishes that hold their looks under clinical cleaning protocols. Our skilled nursing, senior living, assisted living, and memory care practices run more than 27 projects deep, with Cascade in Delray Beach as the completed in-county example.

Florida’s regulatory frame — the Florida Building Code’s healthcare provisions and AHCA review and inspection standards — is built into our documentation and finalized with your Florida architect of record and contractor, the same structure behind our whole multi-state healthcare portfolio. The statewide picture is on our Florida healthcare page. For portfolio operators, the deeper value is the standard itself: one room and finish package that has already survived surveys, one FF&E specification that procures at scale, and one design partner accountable for the result from Palm Beach County to wherever the portfolio ends.

Community institutions for a growing county

Palm Beach County’s Jewish communities — West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Wellington, Boynton Beach — are growing quickly, and their institutions are building: sanctuaries, day schools, mikvahs, and community centers. HH Designers has designed more Chabad houses than any other interior design firm in the world, and our completed Florida community work — Eden Gardens and its mikvah in Orlando, the 60,000-square-foot Chabad Jewish Center of St. Petersburg — shows what that fluency delivers here. Our synagogue, mikvah, and Chabad house practices handle halachic requirements from the first schematic and produce the renderings that donor campaigns are built on. We know how a Shliach, a board, and a donor each read a floor plan, because we have sat in that meeting more times than any firm in this field.

Hospitality in a downtown finding its stride

The same migration filling West Palm Beach’s office towers is remaking its hospitality: restaurants on and around Clematis Street competing for expense-account dinners, hotels upgrading to meet corporate travel, and rooftop and waterfront venues that trade on the climate. Our hotel and restaurant practices design for sustained operation rather than opening-night photography — acoustics, service flow, and durability weighted equally with visual impact — and our Florida experience means material systems already chosen with humidity, UV, and indoor-outdoor thresholds in mind.

Alongside the dining rooms sit the event venues — wedding and banquet spaces, club rooms, and the catering back-of-house that determines whether a room can actually turn three hundred covers. We design those operations from the loading dock forward, because a beautiful ballroom with an undersized service corridor is a beautiful liability.

Multifamily along the growth corridor

From downtown West Palm Beach south through Lake Worth Beach, Boynton Beach, and Delray Beach, the corridor is adding Class A rental and condominium buildings whose residents arrived from markets where the amenity war was already won. Leasing is decided in the lobby, the pool deck, the fitness floor, and the coworking lounge — and those spaces must survive full occupancy, not just the lease-up photography. Our multifamily practice pairs amenity programming and lobby design with FF&E documentation that procures cleanly at portfolio scale.

For developers, the practical value is in the paperwork as much as the palette: amenity packages priced before lender deadlines, model-unit and common-area standards documented so the second tower matches the first, and specifications that hold up when procurement happens eighteen months after design. Multifamily is a documentation business wearing a design business’s clothes, and we are strong in both.

Master planning at community scale

The largest project in our Florida pipeline sits an hour inland: an ongoing master-planned community of 4,000 homes in Okeechobee, in design and planning now. Work at that scale — sequencing neighborhoods, programming amenities, setting a finish standard that holds across thousands of units — is the same discipline, at higher magnification, that governs every building we document. For Palm Beach County developers, it means your design partner already thinks in phases, pro formas, and procurement schedules, not just rooms. Our Boca Raton and Florida pages cover the wider market.

How we deliver in Florida

Structured discovery

Every engagement opens with an existing-conditions visit and a program written with the people who will operate the space — administrators, general managers, rabbanim, leasing directors. We define what the building must do on its hardest day, then set budget ranges against real South Florida construction costs before design begins.

Design development in the portal

Plans, palettes, and lighting develop through structured reviews and photorealistic renderings, with every approval recorded in our client portal. Material selections carry Florida’s conditions as baseline criteria: humidity performance, UV stability, and — for licensed care settings — cleanability under clinical protocols.

The Spec Book and construction

The engagement ends where every HH Designers project ends: a complete Spec Book of drawings, finish schedules, and FF&E documentation, finalized with your Florida architect of record and supported through construction and installation with site visits at the milestones that decide quality. Our completed Florida portfolio was built exactly this way, which is why the model needs no defending here.