It鈥檚 been nearly 54 years since a passenger train stopped in downtown Boca Raton, when in July 1968, the final Florida East Coast Railway pulled out of a decades-old station at 747 South Dixie Highway on its way to Jacksonville.
But on Tuesday, less than a mile to the north and a few minutes past 10 a.m., Brightline company executives, local politicians, business people and construction workers cheered as they broke ground on a new Brightline station.
The station symbolically ushers in a revival of passenger rail travel which is now the scene of fancy new hotels, condo towers and offices for newly arrived businesses.
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