A few weeks ago, on a night the club is still talking about, members gathered on Cloister's front drive for what The Boca Raton called A Toast to 100 Years: an all-ice champagne bar, a projection show washing over the building's facade, fireworks over the water. Then came the Centennial Gala itself, with a spinning birthday cake nearly 14 feet tall, ice sculptures unveiling each course, and the East Coast's first indoor drone show, 75 units synchronized over more than 3,000 fireworks bursts. If you live in one of the enclaves around the resort, you likely heard the finale from your own patio.
Here is the part that would surprise anyone reading the centennial press releases without living next door: the rooms that hosted that celebration are now closed. Not for repairs. For a full renovation that was announced the same month the party season began, and that will keep the club's biggest event spaces dark through the rest of the year.
That sequencing, party first, then the shutdown, tells you something the glossy centennial recaps don't say outright. The Boca Raton didn't wait for its makeover to throw its hundredth birthday party. It threw the party in the old rooms, then sent them into construction. If you're a member or a homeowner in the neighborhoods built around this club, that's the detail that actually changes how you plan the rest of your year here.
What's Actually Closed, and Since When
The renovation was announced on April 23, 2026: a redesign of Cloister's 297 guest rooms and 28 suites, led by the design collective Curioso, running alongside a refresh of Mizner Center, the resort's 80,000-square-foot event complex, led by Rockwell Group, the firm that previously designed The Boca Raton's Tower hotel and its Game Room.
Mizner Center is where the club's biggest gatherings happen, and it's the piece that matters most if you're a resident-member rather than an overnight guest. The refresh touches the Grand Ballroom, the Royal Palm Ballroom, the Addison Ballroom, the Estate Ballroom, the Verandas, and the outdoor Spanish Terrace. Work began this summer. The club has said reopening comes this fall, without naming a specific date, which is worth flagging if you're the kind of member who books a room a season ahead.
Cloister itself is the one piece of good news in the timeline: the resort has said the hotel will remain operational throughout the phased project, so the redesign of its guest rooms and suites isn't taking the building offline. It's specifically the event spaces inside Mizner Center that are dark right now, in early September, with members and neighbors waiting on a fall date that hasn't been pinned down yet.
The Pattern, If You've Been Watching This Club For A While
This isn't the club's first phase of construction in recent memory, and the sequencing has a rhythm if you look at what came before it.
| Phase | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| $375 million transformation | Beach Club reimagination, Tower reimagination, launch of Harborside Pool Club, roughly 20 new dining concepts | Completed, with Beach Club's phase unveiled in January 2025 |
| Cloister guest room redesign | 297 rooms, 28 suites, led by Curioso | Underway, phased, hotel remains operational |
| Mizner Center refresh | Grand, Royal Palm, Addison, and Estate ballrooms, the Verandas, the Spanish Terrace, led by Rockwell Group | Closed since this summer, targeted for fall reopening |
The prior $375 million push rebuilt the parts of the club most visitors interact with first: the beach, the pools, the restaurants. This current phase is smaller in dollar terms but more disruptive for members specifically, because it's aimed at the rooms where private events, galas, and member functions actually happen. A renovated Beach Club doesn't change your ability to book a private dinner. A closed Grand Ballroom does.
What's Still Running While the Ballrooms Sit Empty
The centennial calendar didn't stop when the construction crews moved in. It just relocated to the parts of the property that don't need Mizner Center.
The Cloister Inn Museum opened in December 2025, built in partnership with the Boca Raton Historical Society, with a newly commissioned portrait of Addison Mizner by Palm Beach artist Serge Strosberg and a self-guided audio tour through the resort's earliest years. None of that requires a ballroom.
The Racquet Club, with its tennis and newer pickleball courts, is hosting twice-yearly 1926-era wood racquet clinics, and the golf side has its own centennial tribute in the Silver Scot Invitational, honoring Tommy Armour, the club's first Director of Golf in 1926, with vintage equipment and period attire encouraged on select holes.
Music and performance found other rooms this year rather than the affected ballrooms. The Palm Beach Opera staged an evening of 1920s-era arias outdoors in the Spa Palmera Garden, and the Palm Beach Symphony has contributed its own candlelit performance to the centennial calendar. Neither act needed the Verandas or the Spanish Terrace to happen.
On the dining side, the centennial shows up in smaller, ongoing details: a Shafer "Century" Cabernet Sauvignon poured across member dining venues, and coconut macaroons at Maison Rose, done in commemorative packaging as a nod to what was reportedly Addison Mizner's favorite treat. If you want a piece of the hundredth year without waiting for a ballroom to reopen, this is closer to how you'd actually get it this month: a museum visit, a round of golf, a glass of wine, not a gala invitation.
If You're Planning Something at the Club This Fall
For residents who use the club for private events, the practical read is straightforward. The resort has committed to a fall reopening for Mizner Center's ballrooms and the Verandas, but hasn't published an exact date as of this writing. If you're weighing a fall wedding, milestone dinner, or member function that depends on the Grand Ballroom or the Addison Ballroom, the honest answer right now is to ask the club directly for a confirmed date before you build a guest list around it. Booking in the meantime for the Spa Palmera Garden or another outdoor space sidesteps the uncertainty entirely, and based on how the club has been running its own centennial programming this year, that's clearly still an option in active use.
The Season Between the Two Parties
There's a version of this centennial story that reads like a straight celebration: a hundred years, a gala, a museum, a book from Assouline chronicling it all. That's the version every press release and travel outlet has already told.
The version that actually matters if your home sits inside these gates is quieter. Right now, in early September, you're living through the gap between two eras of this club: the one that just closed its biggest rooms, and the one that reopens them sometime this fall with a Rockwell Group refresh nobody outside the design world would have predicted for a hundred-year-old Mediterranean Revival property. The wood racquet clinic, the museum tour, the glass of Shafer at dinner, those are how you stay inside the centennial while the rooms built for celebrating it finish their own turn at being a hundred years old.
If you're weighing what a home in one of these enclaves actually means day to day, that's the real answer: proximity to a club that renovates in public, on a schedule it tells its members about in advance, and that keeps finding smaller rooms to celebrate in while the big ones are closed.
If you'd like a resident's-eye view of any of the neighborhoods surrounding The Boca Raton, or you're weighing what club access actually adds to a home in this part of the city, Pink Palm Group can walk you through it. Schedule a private consultation and we'll tell you what we'd tell our own neighbors.
