December 19, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode, Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer joins the podcast to discuss the city’s rapid growth, evolving demographics, and thriving business climate. Mayor Singer shares how Boca Raton is attracting families, entrepreneurs, and innovators while working to preserve the community’s unique character and quality of life. He reflects on his personal journey into public service, the importance of civic engagement, and why he remains optimistic about the future of Boca Raton—and the enduring promise of the American dream.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
My guest today is the mayor of Boca Raton, Florida,
Scott Singer. Hi, mister mayor. So nice to have you on, Carol.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Great to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You know, I don't want to insult the other mayors
of South Florida towns. I'm friendly with the Bay Harbor
Islands Mayor Isaac Saliver, for example, But Boca Ratone is
my favorite town in South Florida, and I think you've
done a fantastic job with it. I really I think
it's a beautiful place to live, and you're now spreading
the word to other places. You've been in the news
(00:41):
a lot talking about what a great place it is
to live and work. What is motivating you to get
out there and tell the people about Boca Well.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you, Carol. I share your love of Boca Ratone.
It's my favorite city in Florida. It was growing up,
and I didn't grow up in Boca Ratone. I grew
up in Fort Lauderdale, but would spend as much time
as I could on weekends visiting fran seeing our beautiful parks,
and that inspired me. One day to live here. So
I'm now living the American dream getting to live in
Boca Ratone. I think it is an unmatched place, and
we over We're celebrating our centennial this year, so it's
(01:14):
a great opportunity to look back. A lot of people
before me planned a beautiful city, and we're trying to
just make it better for the next generation. And that
is what's motivating me to try to talk all the
good I can about Boca Ratone, especially our wonderful business climate.
We've been attracting lots of people and companies over the
decades to become a center of commerce for a city
(01:36):
of our size, where we punch above our weight. And
I've been pleased, at least with I'm not pleased as
an American to see socialist ideas taking root in some
of our nation's largest cities. But I'm trying to make
lemonade out of the lemons that says elections are and
trying to highlight why Boca Ratone is a better place
to do business and attract some high paying jobs to
our city.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I love that. So do you have any concerts? Learn
that this pitch will attract yes, people who will vote
sort of the right way, but also some people who
maybe are just going to come take advantage of the
business climate, the low taxes and all of that and
continue to vote the way that they did in those
socialists locales.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, no, and the record in Florida has demonstrated that
a that's not born out by stats at all. It's
the reverse. Seven years ago, the Democrats had an advantage statewide,
and governor desantees and economic climates and efforts by mayors
and other places have drawn businesses here and people here.
We now have one point seven more million, one point
(02:40):
seven million more Republican voters than we did six and
a half seven years ago. So the people who have
come are changing. If they're fleeing high tax jurisdictions, then
they're coming to Florida for the better business climate, that
better regulatory climate. They're voting Republican.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Migration of people is what's changing of the voter roles here.
So I don't think they're fear that people are going
to come. Plus people seeing my message, which has largely
been more in conservative media, but I'll talk to anyone
to tout the virtues of Boca Ratone. You know, tend
to have a particular mindset.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Boca has a reputation for being older. I from what
I read one recently that the actual average person who
lives in bocas in theirs, and it's actually quite a
young place. Like I think young families live in Boca,
more young families than I know, more than anywhere else
in South Florida. What is it an older or younger demographic?
(03:34):
What is Boca like?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We're definitely skewing younger. You're right, our median age is
now forty six and change. I'm over the median age now.
I wasn't when I started mayor. I wasn't when I
started as mayor seven years ago. But I'm glad to
see that we're getting younger. We've had strong growth in
our schools and demand for them. That's why I was
happy to work with the school district to get a
new school for Boca ratone that created twelve hundred more
(03:56):
student seats for public schools at the elementary in at
K three eight levels. But we're definitely getting younger. We
contrast sharply with the town of Palm Beach, where the
median ages twenty plus years older than us. Right, if
we've been trying to beat back. But the Miami metro area,
which Boca Ratone is a part, is one of the
top fifteen I think fastest growing in population for children
(04:20):
over the last x years, and that continues to be.
We're attracting families, we're attracting job creators, We're attracting people
of all ages.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So my favorite restaurant in South Florida is in Boca.
It's Alikat. Do you have a favorite restaurant? Are you
allowed to have a favorite restaurant?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Has made I have a lot of favorite restaurants. Baker
Alikat is Eric Baker.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He's the best.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's a great friend. I love. You know, there are
some Boca mainstays New York prime for Italian I love Preso.
You know, Max's and Meisterer Park has been an icon
there in our downtown shopping center. There's Trotteria Romano, There's
Loff's Fish House. There's so many. I've been to all
of those forgive my friends well good. The great thing
about Boca is we've got hundreds of great choices, and
(05:03):
you know, one of the things that draws people here
when you want a high quality steakhouse, We've got more
than a dozen. I like meet Market two. I mean
I could name them on and on, and for anyone
I haven't named, I beg your pardon. I could just
go on and take up the entire podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Actually, that's we should do that. We should do a
separate podcast, unjust the restaurants. Did you always want to
be in politics, like as a as a child, where
you like, I'm going to be mayor of book or
retone someday.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Absolutely not. That was not something I planned. I ran
for student council many times growing up as a kid,
just because I thought I wanted to be involved and
where did you try to make good decisions? I grew
up in Fort Lauderdale, for let it down right. I
lost seven straight student council elections from third grade to
ninth grade. Finally got elected, and I've had more success
since there. But I started my career as a lawyer
(05:48):
in New York, commercial litigator to big firm, wasn't involved
in governmental law. I thought maybe one day I would
approach governmental law, luring is, you know, for the government.
Didn't end up doing that, had some governmental clients in
my private practice. But really motivated me is when I
moved back to South Florida to Boca Ratone. My son
was only then a year old. I looked at him
(06:09):
and thought, hmm, I'm trying to build my practice here
in Boca Ratone, build a business. When I was growing up,
I didn't feel I had those opportunities, so I, like
most of my friends, left South Florida. I'd come back
in my thirties. Others had too, and I thought, what
are we doing to create jobs in Boca Ratone? Made
me think what's our city doing? So went to city
council meeting and the mayor then was talking about some
(06:31):
efforts to bring younger people here and bring jobs into
a few more meetings, and thought, maybe I can contribute.
So did a lot of diligence, talked to lots of people,
decided to run, ran one and again decided to run
for mayor. And here I am five elections later, looking
at concluding our term. But it was really just an
opportunity to create better opportunities for our children, and now
(06:51):
I have two.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I love that. I often asked people what their plan
be in life would have been? Would you have stayed
a lawyer? Would you have done something else?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think this is the plan b I didn't plan's.
I didn't plan to get into public service. I didn't
plan to become mayor. It's more just being ready for
opportunities when they come and finding the moment. We don't know.
I have no idea what's going to happen. No one
does the next five, ten, fifteen years. So it's trying
to find opportunities to find something fulfilling where you can.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So, speaking of the future, you're term limited out as mayor.
What comes next? Mayor Singer.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
A lot of people have been talking to me about
continuing to be involved in public service, and I'm considering
opportunities to serve. I love public service. It has been
very fulfilling. It's been rewarding for me to be able
to improve the lives of a number of people in
Boca Ratone, create new things, whether it's partnering for a
new school district, harder to get a bright line high
speed rail station, trying to market our city now to
(07:51):
create more jobs and more opportunities and fulfill what I
originally got me running involved, to try to streamline government,
make it more accessible, continuing to look at a variety
of options. Meanwhile, I'm focused on making the most of
what I can the next four months plus is Mayor Boca.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Had a real influx of people in the last you know,
five or so years. How has that been. Has that
been a difficult change for you? Is it is a
city changing?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No, I think we've adhered to our character. South Florida's
seen pretty strong growth, but Florida Boca Raton's growth has
been pretty modest. We're a relatively built out city, not
a lot of vacant tracks, mostly single, single family neighborhoods.
We've introduced some mixed use housing, including some affordable housing,
to help workers and companies attract employees here, but we
(08:38):
kept the density low. We're unlike Miami and Fort Lauderdale,
where they have forty to fifty and story buildings and
taller right. Our height limits are one hundred and forty
feet in our downtown. The rest of the city seven stories,
and we have few buildings that fit that. We're mostly
single family neighborhoods. We have seen growth in suburban areas
outside of Boca Ratone as pomach He has had more
(09:01):
communities pop up. The challenge for us is that we
have more traffic on our roads and we don't have
any of the tax revenue. But despite that, we still
maintain the lowest property tax revenue of any full service city.
And it's probably because we have such a strong business
s base, so SETI and measured growth and even with
our efforts to reach out to businesses and other climates,
New York included really focused on the job creators class
(09:25):
a office space. We don't expect to accommodate everyone who's
going to want to flee New York and socialist ideas,
we can try to attract some more jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Are you getting a lot of calls from New York?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We have, and we've continued our outreach even before the
June primary. We've had consistent outreach to New York, San Francisco, Chicago,
other markets over the years. Seen success. It's hard to
quantify that, but we're still having conversations. Got another feedback
yesterday from an email I sent about someone interested in
moving here, maybe a little later that I want, but
(09:55):
we're going to try to get people here as quickly
as we can to harness the talent you have here
and provide more opportunities for our young students. And are
people here already.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. A question I asked
all of my guests is what are you most proud
of in your life.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'm proud of a lot of things, but I think
it's I'm most proud of our children. Our kids are
teens or just young teens, and I'm grateful every day
for my wife, Bella and for them. They're turning into
wonderful people, and I'd like to think I had some
hand in that.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Sure, others count.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think they do, and I'm probably being a little modest.
I try to be as active as I can, but
when I see them doing well or doing good things,
I feel prideful, and I think I should. I'm proud
of a lot of things we've accomplished as a city.
I think we've changed a climate and try to make
the city work more efficiently, work better for residents, be
(10:53):
welcoming to businesses, and really achieve great success. And I'm
focused on the next century for our city. As we've
completed ours Hennial this year and had a lot of accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I love it. I'll be watching to see what Boca
does really interesting to see where the city goes for
the next one hundred years. Give us a five year
out prediction. It could be about anything, could be about Boca,
could be about the country music, art, whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Sure, let me start with Boca Ratone. I think we're
going to continue to excel. I think we've got opportunities
and including what we're working on downtown, which is a
new public private partnership to revitalize an area by the
bright Line station. The voters will have a chance to
vote on that in March if we can reach a deal.
But I think that's going to spur more conversations and
more opportunities for new job creation, new amenities, places that
(11:40):
residents will want to go. Regardless of that individual effort,
I see throughout the city, more job growth, more opportunities
for the talent we have. We've got great universities in
Boca Ratone, including Florida Atlantic University, which was just rated
a Tier one research university. That's going to continue to
bride opportunities for students here, attract more talent and fuel
(12:02):
our innovation and job creation. Innovation has been in the
core of Boca Ratone's DNA. The IBM personal computer was
invented in Boca Ratone nineteen eighty one, and even though
IBM left, we still have had tech companies and fintech
medtech now a up in Boca Raton is part of
our core. I think that's going to continue to sell,
and I think more globally, I think Florida is going
(12:23):
to continue to be a beacon for people who want
a better quality of life, and so hopefully we'll see
that as too in Boca Ratone.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I fully agree that Florida and Boca will continue to
be that beacon. Anybody listening to this, you can come
as long as you're voting right. That's my message too.
I know the mayor doesn't have to say it. I'll
say it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah. Can I just add something mentally? Please? You know.
I think I've seen some great successes, unimaginable achievements, even
in foreign policy and domestic policy by the Trump administration,
and I think we may have a new era under
his leadership of solving world crises. When you have six,
seven to eight world leaders nominating the President for the
(13:05):
Nobel Peace Prize, it speaks volumes, and that's an all
in less than one year. The press didn't give enough
attention to what happened at the Security Council two days ago,
where you've got a thirteen to oh vote in the
Security Council on what may be the most sweeping plan
to bring peace to the Middle East and to end
the fighting, end the militarism and the terrorist whole on
(13:26):
Gaza and bring relief for Gazen residents by taking out Hamas.
And this multinational force may have the first real opportunity
to do that. So that's remarkable if.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, if President Trump can continue on those foreign policy successes,
we'll have peace and a scale that we have not
seen and that will I think lead to other domestic successes.
And so I think, you know, in the next five years,
it's hard to predict how successful it would be, just
because we've had so many successes on foreign policy because
of President Trump and the administration justice past year.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, those wins I think I feel like aren't getting
enough attention. I hope that that changes in the new year.
I think things are just kind of busy right now.
But he really has had some spectacular successes that I
don't think even his haters can deny. So yeah, I
have loved this conversation, mister Mayor. I always enjoy talking
(14:19):
to you when when I see you leave us here
with your best tip for my listeners on how they
can improve their lives.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I think a lot of life comes down to outlook.
Maybe I'm feeling optimistic today, even though you know there
are moments of pessimism. Every day isn't a blessing. Every
days an opportunity to do something great, and even every
day is an opportunity to reflect on what you're doing.
And there are times I push myself. I'm a perfectionist,
but maybe talking to you and your enthusiasm, your positivity
is rubbing off Carol. But I'm feeling optimistic, and I
(14:50):
think it's important to have hope. What scares me for
our nation is we're seeing a lot of anger, a
lot of vitriol, and I think there are institutional force
is that benefit from people being angry. There's clipbait may
make people more angry. I think it's important that young
people not get disaffected because the American dream is there
for everyone and we need to make it more realizable
(15:13):
and attainable. But capitalism America have been the two biggest
providers of uplift, wealth, success, opportunity in the history of
humanity and we're focused on that now. And there are
forces that would say, you know, even in our country,
that want to change our frameworks. I think we need
to defend American ideals. I think we need to support
(15:35):
allies across the world who defend American ideals and Western
ideals of prosperity, individual liberty, freedom, opportunity. They're all tied together,
and so I think keep your optimism because that is
what makes America great. That's how we can make our
communities great, working together despite obstacles to find better paths forward.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I love that, you know. I love America, I love Florida.
I think what you're doing is really fantastic. He is
Mayor Scott Singer. Check out his city book Ortone. Come visit,
take me out to dinner at ally Kat. Thank you,
Mayor Singer.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So nice to have you on anytime. My pleasure. Carol,
thank you,
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
My guest today is the mayor of Boca Raton, Florida,
Scott Singer. Hi, mister mayor. So nice to have you on, Carol.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Great to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You know, I don't want to insult the other mayors
of South Florida towns. I'm friendly with the Bay Harbor
Islands Mayor Isaac Saliver, for example, But Boca Ratone is
my favorite town in South Florida, and I think you've
done a fantastic job with it. I really I think
it's a beautiful place to live, and you're now spreading
the word to other places. You've been in the news
(00:41):
a lot talking about what a great place it is
to live and work. What is motivating you to get
out there and tell the people about Boca Well.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you, Carol. I share your love of Boca Ratone.
It's my favorite city in Florida. It was growing up,
and I didn't grow up in Boca Ratone. I grew
up in Fort Lauderdale, but would spend as much time
as I could on weekends visiting fran seeing our beautiful parks,
and that inspired me. One day to live here. So
I'm now living the American dream getting to live in
Boca Ratone. I think it is an unmatched place, and
we over We're celebrating our centennial this year, so it's
(01:14):
a great opportunity to look back. A lot of people
before me planned a beautiful city, and we're trying to
just make it better for the next generation. And that
is what's motivating me to try to talk all the
good I can about Boca Ratone, especially our wonderful business climate.
We've been attracting lots of people and companies over the
decades to become a center of commerce for a city
(01:36):
of our size, where we punch above our weight. And
I've been pleased, at least with I'm not pleased as
an American to see socialist ideas taking root in some
of our nation's largest cities. But I'm trying to make
lemonade out of the lemons that says elections are and
trying to highlight why Boca Ratone is a better place
to do business and attract some high paying jobs to
our city.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I love that. So do you have any concerts? Learn
that this pitch will attract yes, people who will vote
sort of the right way, but also some people who
maybe are just going to come take advantage of the
business climate, the low taxes and all of that and
continue to vote the way that they did in those
socialists locales.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, no, and the record in Florida has demonstrated that
a that's not born out by stats at all. It's
the reverse. Seven years ago, the Democrats had an advantage statewide,
and governor desantees and economic climates and efforts by mayors
and other places have drawn businesses here and people here.
We now have one point seven more million, one point
(02:40):
seven million more Republican voters than we did six and
a half seven years ago. So the people who have
come are changing. If they're fleeing high tax jurisdictions, then
they're coming to Florida for the better business climate, that
better regulatory climate. They're voting Republican.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Migration of people is what's changing of the voter roles here.
So I don't think they're fear that people are going
to come. Plus people seeing my message, which has largely
been more in conservative media, but I'll talk to anyone
to tout the virtues of Boca Ratone. You know, tend
to have a particular mindset.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Boca has a reputation for being older. I from what
I read one recently that the actual average person who
lives in bocas in theirs, and it's actually quite a
young place. Like I think young families live in Boca,
more young families than I know, more than anywhere else
in South Florida. What is it an older or younger demographic?
(03:34):
What is Boca like?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
We're definitely skewing younger. You're right, our median age is
now forty six and change. I'm over the median age now.
I wasn't when I started mayor. I wasn't when I
started as mayor seven years ago. But I'm glad to
see that we're getting younger. We've had strong growth in
our schools and demand for them. That's why I was
happy to work with the school district to get a
new school for Boca ratone that created twelve hundred more
(03:56):
student seats for public schools at the elementary in at
K three eight levels. But we're definitely getting younger. We
contrast sharply with the town of Palm Beach, where the
median ages twenty plus years older than us. Right, if
we've been trying to beat back. But the Miami metro area,
which Boca Ratone is a part, is one of the
top fifteen I think fastest growing in population for children
(04:20):
over the last x years, and that continues to be.
We're attracting families, we're attracting job creators, We're attracting people
of all ages.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So my favorite restaurant in South Florida is in Boca.
It's Alikat. Do you have a favorite restaurant? Are you
allowed to have a favorite restaurant?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Has made I have a lot of favorite restaurants. Baker
Alikat is Eric Baker.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He's the best.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's a great friend. I love. You know, there are
some Boca mainstays New York prime for Italian I love Preso.
You know, Max's and Meisterer Park has been an icon
there in our downtown shopping center. There's Trotteria Romano, There's
Loff's Fish House. There's so many. I've been to all
of those forgive my friends well good. The great thing
about Boca is we've got hundreds of great choices, and
(05:03):
you know, one of the things that draws people here
when you want a high quality steakhouse, We've got more
than a dozen. I like meet Market two. I mean
I could name them on and on, and for anyone
I haven't named, I beg your pardon. I could just
go on and take up the entire podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Actually, that's we should do that. We should do a
separate podcast, unjust the restaurants. Did you always want to
be in politics, like as a as a child, where
you like, I'm going to be mayor of book or
retone someday.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Absolutely not. That was not something I planned. I ran
for student council many times growing up as a kid,
just because I thought I wanted to be involved and
where did you try to make good decisions? I grew
up in Fort Lauderdale, for let it down right. I
lost seven straight student council elections from third grade to
ninth grade. Finally got elected, and I've had more success
since there. But I started my career as a lawyer
(05:48):
in New York, commercial litigator to big firm, wasn't involved
in governmental law. I thought maybe one day I would
approach governmental law, luring is, you know, for the government.
Didn't end up doing that, had some governmental clients in
my private practice. But really motivated me is when I
moved back to South Florida to Boca Ratone. My son
was only then a year old. I looked at him
(06:09):
and thought, hmm, I'm trying to build my practice here
in Boca Ratone, build a business. When I was growing up,
I didn't feel I had those opportunities, so I, like
most of my friends, left South Florida. I'd come back
in my thirties. Others had too, and I thought, what
are we doing to create jobs in Boca Ratone? Made
me think what's our city doing? So went to city
council meeting and the mayor then was talking about some
(06:31):
efforts to bring younger people here and bring jobs into
a few more meetings, and thought, maybe I can contribute.
So did a lot of diligence, talked to lots of people,
decided to run, ran one and again decided to run
for mayor. And here I am five elections later, looking
at concluding our term. But it was really just an
opportunity to create better opportunities for our children, and now
(06:51):
I have two.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I love that. I often asked people what their plan
be in life would have been? Would you have stayed
a lawyer? Would you have done something else?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I think this is the plan b I didn't plan's.
I didn't plan to get into public service. I didn't
plan to become mayor. It's more just being ready for
opportunities when they come and finding the moment. We don't know.
I have no idea what's going to happen. No one
does the next five, ten, fifteen years. So it's trying
to find opportunities to find something fulfilling where you can.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So, speaking of the future, you're term limited out as mayor.
What comes next? Mayor Singer.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
A lot of people have been talking to me about
continuing to be involved in public service, and I'm considering
opportunities to serve. I love public service. It has been
very fulfilling. It's been rewarding for me to be able
to improve the lives of a number of people in
Boca Ratone, create new things, whether it's partnering for a
new school district, harder to get a bright line high
speed rail station, trying to market our city now to
(07:51):
create more jobs and more opportunities and fulfill what I
originally got me running involved, to try to streamline government,
make it more accessible, continuing to look at a variety
of options. Meanwhile, I'm focused on making the most of
what I can the next four months plus is Mayor Boca.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Had a real influx of people in the last you know,
five or so years. How has that been. Has that
been a difficult change for you? Is it is a
city changing?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No, I think we've adhered to our character. South Florida's
seen pretty strong growth, but Florida Boca Raton's growth has
been pretty modest. We're a relatively built out city, not
a lot of vacant tracks, mostly single, single family neighborhoods.
We've introduced some mixed use housing, including some affordable housing,
to help workers and companies attract employees here, but we
(08:38):
kept the density low. We're unlike Miami and Fort Lauderdale,
where they have forty to fifty and story buildings and
taller right. Our height limits are one hundred and forty
feet in our downtown. The rest of the city seven stories,
and we have few buildings that fit that. We're mostly
single family neighborhoods. We have seen growth in suburban areas
outside of Boca Ratone as pomach He has had more
(09:01):
communities pop up. The challenge for us is that we
have more traffic on our roads and we don't have
any of the tax revenue. But despite that, we still
maintain the lowest property tax revenue of any full service city.
And it's probably because we have such a strong business
s base, so SETI and measured growth and even with
our efforts to reach out to businesses and other climates,
New York included really focused on the job creators class
(09:25):
a office space. We don't expect to accommodate everyone who's
going to want to flee New York and socialist ideas,
we can try to attract some more jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Are you getting a lot of calls from New York?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We have, and we've continued our outreach even before the
June primary. We've had consistent outreach to New York, San Francisco, Chicago,
other markets over the years. Seen success. It's hard to
quantify that, but we're still having conversations. Got another feedback
yesterday from an email I sent about someone interested in
moving here, maybe a little later that I want, but
(09:55):
we're going to try to get people here as quickly
as we can to harness the talent you have here
and provide more opportunities for our young students. And are
people here already.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. A question I asked
all of my guests is what are you most proud
of in your life.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'm proud of a lot of things, but I think
it's I'm most proud of our children. Our kids are
teens or just young teens, and I'm grateful every day
for my wife, Bella and for them. They're turning into
wonderful people, and I'd like to think I had some
hand in that.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Sure, others count.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think they do, and I'm probably being a little modest.
I try to be as active as I can, but
when I see them doing well or doing good things,
I feel prideful, and I think I should. I'm proud
of a lot of things we've accomplished as a city.
I think we've changed a climate and try to make
the city work more efficiently, work better for residents, be
(10:53):
welcoming to businesses, and really achieve great success. And I'm
focused on the next century for our city. As we've
completed ours Hennial this year and had a lot of accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I love it. I'll be watching to see what Boca
does really interesting to see where the city goes for
the next one hundred years. Give us a five year
out prediction. It could be about anything, could be about Boca,
could be about the country music, art, whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Sure, let me start with Boca Ratone. I think we're
going to continue to excel. I think we've got opportunities
and including what we're working on downtown, which is a
new public private partnership to revitalize an area by the
bright Line station. The voters will have a chance to
vote on that in March if we can reach a deal.
But I think that's going to spur more conversations and
more opportunities for new job creation, new amenities, places that
(11:40):
residents will want to go. Regardless of that individual effort,
I see throughout the city, more job growth, more opportunities
for the talent we have. We've got great universities in
Boca Ratone, including Florida Atlantic University, which was just rated
a Tier one research university. That's going to continue to
bride opportunities for students here, attract more talent and fuel
(12:02):
our innovation and job creation. Innovation has been in the
core of Boca Ratone's DNA. The IBM personal computer was
invented in Boca Ratone nineteen eighty one, and even though
IBM left, we still have had tech companies and fintech
medtech now a up in Boca Raton is part of
our core. I think that's going to continue to sell,
and I think more globally, I think Florida is going
(12:23):
to continue to be a beacon for people who want
a better quality of life, and so hopefully we'll see
that as too in Boca Ratone.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I fully agree that Florida and Boca will continue to
be that beacon. Anybody listening to this, you can come
as long as you're voting right. That's my message too.
I know the mayor doesn't have to say it. I'll
say it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah. Can I just add something mentally? Please? You know.
I think I've seen some great successes, unimaginable achievements, even
in foreign policy and domestic policy by the Trump administration,
and I think we may have a new era under
his leadership of solving world crises. When you have six,
seven to eight world leaders nominating the President for the
(13:05):
Nobel Peace Prize, it speaks volumes, and that's an all
in less than one year. The press didn't give enough
attention to what happened at the Security Council two days ago,
where you've got a thirteen to oh vote in the
Security Council on what may be the most sweeping plan
to bring peace to the Middle East and to end
the fighting, end the militarism and the terrorist whole on
(13:26):
Gaza and bring relief for Gazen residents by taking out Hamas.
And this multinational force may have the first real opportunity
to do that. So that's remarkable if.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, if President Trump can continue on those foreign policy successes,
we'll have peace and a scale that we have not
seen and that will I think lead to other domestic successes.
And so I think, you know, in the next five years,
it's hard to predict how successful it would be, just
because we've had so many successes on foreign policy because
of President Trump and the administration justice past year.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, those wins I think I feel like aren't getting
enough attention. I hope that that changes in the new year.
I think things are just kind of busy right now.
But he really has had some spectacular successes that I
don't think even his haters can deny. So yeah, I
have loved this conversation, mister Mayor. I always enjoy talking
(14:19):
to you when when I see you leave us here
with your best tip for my listeners on how they
can improve their lives.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I think a lot of life comes down to outlook.
Maybe I'm feeling optimistic today, even though you know there
are moments of pessimism. Every day isn't a blessing. Every
days an opportunity to do something great, and even every
day is an opportunity to reflect on what you're doing.
And there are times I push myself. I'm a perfectionist,
but maybe talking to you and your enthusiasm, your positivity
is rubbing off Carol. But I'm feeling optimistic, and I
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think it's important to have hope. What scares me for
our nation is we're seeing a lot of anger, a
lot of vitriol, and I think there are institutional force
is that benefit from people being angry. There's clipbait may
make people more angry. I think it's important that young
people not get disaffected because the American dream is there
for everyone and we need to make it more realizable
(15:13):
and attainable. But capitalism America have been the two biggest
providers of uplift, wealth, success, opportunity in the history of
humanity and we're focused on that now. And there are
forces that would say, you know, even in our country,
that want to change our frameworks. I think we need
to defend American ideals. I think we need to support
(15:35):
allies across the world who defend American ideals and Western
ideals of prosperity, individual liberty, freedom, opportunity. They're all tied together,
and so I think keep your optimism because that is
what makes America great. That's how we can make our
communities great, working together despite obstacles to find better paths forward.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I love that, you know. I love America, I love Florida.
I think what you're doing is really fantastic. He is
Mayor Scott Singer. Check out his city book Ortone. Come visit,
take me out to dinner at ally Kat. Thank you,
Mayor Singer.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So nice to have you on anytime. My pleasure. Carol,
thank you,
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