If you drive out of Cloisters toward Clint Moore Road or swing past the Yamato Road gate on your way to dinner, you have been driving past a quiet transformation for longer than you might realize. Most of it has stayed invisible, tucked behind press releases and zoning filings. But two pieces of it are not invisible anymore. One you can eat at this week. One you can book a court at this weekend.
Here is the thing worth knowing before the rest of the story catches up to you: the old IBM campus that borders Broken Sound along Yamato Road just changed owners, and the developer who bought it already has a track record for turning office parks into something closer to a town center. That alone would be worth a mention. What makes it worth your actual attention is that one of the amenities from that larger plan opened months before the sale closed, and it is already running seven days a week a few minutes from your front gate.
Three Updates That Are Actually One Story
Treated separately, these look like routine local news: a Mediterranean cafe opened on Clint Moore Road, a pickleball facility opened inside a nearby office campus, and that same campus sold to a new owner. Treated together, they describe a corridor that is filling in around Broken Sound faster than the headlines suggest, on both sides of the neighborhood's two gated entrances on Yamato Road and Clint Moore Road.
The retail side has been building quietly for a couple of years. The bigger structural change, the one that will shape what this corridor looks like five years from now, just became official on September 10, 2026, when Related Ross announced its acquisition of the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, known locally as BRiC, with financing from Ares Real Estate. That is three days before this was written. If you have not heard about it yet, you are about to be the first person at your next dinner party who has.
What's Already Open at the Reserve Shopping Center
Start with the part you can actually taste. The Reserve Shopping Center at 9858 Clint Moore Road, one of the retail nodes closest to Broken Sound's Clint Moore gate, now anchors Cafe Landwer, a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern concept with roots that trace back to a cafe Moshe Landwer opened in 1919. The Boca Raton location opened in the summer of 2025 and has settled into a steady breakfast-through-dinner rhythm since, drawing enough traffic that weekend brunch tables fill up before you would expect. The menu leans into shakshuka in half a dozen variations, alongside the kind of mezze spread that makes a table of four order too much on purpose.
In the same plaza sits Villa Rosano, an Italian kitchen that gives residents a proper pasta dinner option without driving all the way to Mizner Park.
None of this is dramatic on its own. What it tells you is that the Clint Moore corridor closest to Broken Sound's gate has quietly become a real dining option for people who live inside those gates, rather than a stretch of road you only pass through on the way somewhere else.
The Courts That Opened Before the Big Plan Did
Now the part that is easy to miss because it happened inside an office park most residents associate with commuting, not recreation. Boca Raton Innovation Campus sits along Yamato Road near Military Trail, close enough to Broken Sound's Old Course that Wikipedia's own entry on Yamato Road lists the two as neighbors on the same stretch of road. For most of its recent history, BRiC has been exactly what its old IBM lineage suggests: a research and office campus, 1.7 million square feet of it, where the original IBM Personal Computer was designed in 1981.
That is changing. The Palms Indoor Pickleball is already open inside BRiC, seven courts, family-owned, built by the same team behind Orangetheory Fitness and Restore Hyper Wellness. It runs open play, leagues, clinics, and a Pilates and recovery lounge, and it is not a future rendering. It is a place you can drive to this week. The club is hosting a Palms Social Night on September 18, combining pickleball, Pilates, live music, food, and drinks, which lands just days from now.
This matters because most of what has been written about BRiC's future, the museum, the 140-room hotel, the 1,000 new residences, the conference center, describes a buildout that earlier projections placed as far out as 2028 to 2030. The pickleball courts are the one piece of that vision that arrived early. If you were waiting for a signal that the "someday" plan for that campus was actually starting to become a "this season" plan, that signal already showed up, and it did not wait for anyone's announcement.
The Sale That Just Closed
Here is where the timeline gets interesting. CP Group, which has owned BRiC since 2018 after paying roughly $170 million for it, spent the past several years pouring about $100 million into the property. That work culminated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 8, 2026, celebrating a new main entrance and lobby, an on-site wellness center operated by Boca Raton Regional Hospital, two coffee concepts, a revitalized dining and banquet hall, and a new 1,100-space parking garage. Palm Beach County Commissioner Marci Woodward attended. CP Group called it the completion of the campus's repositioning.
Eight months later, CP Group sold it.
Related Ross, the West Palm Beach-based firm led by Stephen Ross, closed on the purchase this month with financing from Ares Real Estate. In the company's own announcement, Ross said the property "changed the course of technology once before for the region," framing the acquisition as the next chapter for a campus with a genuine claim to South Florida tech history. Related Ross has spent nearly three decades building out West Palm Beach, starting with CityPlace in 1998, the mixed-use development that became the template for turning a single large property into a walkable district with retail, dining, and residences layered on top of each other. The firm has described its plans for BRiC in similarly broad terms, a mixed-use destination built on top of zoning approvals CP Group had already secured for what has been called a micro city.
For Broken Sound residents, the practical read is this: the corridor just finished one wave of investment and immediately absorbed the start of a bigger one. The $100 million renovation that wrapped in January was not the end state. It was CP Group making the property attractive enough to sell. Related Ross is the buyer with the balance sheet and the track record to build the next layer, and the pickleball courts already open inside BRiC are the first physical evidence of what that next layer might look like up close.
What to Watch This Season
Nothing here requires a decision from you. There is no permit deadline, no HOA vote, no reason to do anything differently on your next trip down Clint Moore Road. But if you have found yourself wondering why that stretch of Yamato Road feels busier than it used to, or why a pickleball club now sits inside what you always thought of as an office park, the answer is that Broken Sound's immediate neighborhood is in the early stages of becoming something more layered than it has been in decades. The retail side, Cafe Landwer and Villa Rosano among them, has already arrived. The bigger structural change, the one backed by a firm with more than $10 billion in planned investment across Palm Beach County and a CityPlace pedigree behind it, is just getting its financing in place.
Worth keeping an eye on over the next year or two: what Related Ross actually builds where CP Group left off, whether the retail and dining pieces of that zoning approval start construction, and whether more of BRiC's promised amenities follow the pickleball courts' lead by opening ahead of the flashier announcements.
If you are the kind of resident who likes knowing what is changing around you before it shows up in a mailer, this is that update. Anne De Marzo and the De Marzo Luxury Group track these shifts along Broken Sound's edges as a matter of course, not because every change means a transaction, but because understanding the neighborhood well enough to notice a pickleball court before it makes the local news is the same skill that matters when a friend, a neighbor, or a family member eventually asks what is actually happening around here. If that describes you, or someone you know weighing a move into Broken Sound, request a Private Tour & Community Introduction and we will walk you through it in person.
