Beach Park Isle
In the fall of 1925, a headline in the Tribune announced, “Developers Plan to Create Island in Bay.” A causeway would connect Beach Park to the ultra-exclusive community of Tropical Isle. There would be only 35 lots and all homes would be palatial. Over the next six months Beach Park Development Co reported rapid progress, but by mid-1926 it had gone silent on the subject. In the early 1960s, developer Bob Jacobson purchased the land. The land project was reborn, renamed Beach Park Isle and completed. By then consumer tastes had changed, and many of the isle’s custom homes were in built in the nostalgic style we now call “Old Florida.”