Related Ross Just Bought the Campus Next Door to Broken Sound. Sunday Mornings There Haven't Changed.

Vendors at Boca Farmer's Market start setting up in Parking Lot H at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus as early as 4 a.m. The market opens at 9 a.m., closes at 1 p.m., and then everything comes down again. Co-founder Jess Del Vecchio put it plainly when she spoke with the Boca Raton Tribune this summer: "People don't realize it's like you build a city every weekend, and you break it down every weekend."

On September 11, the land under that temporary city got a new owner. Related Ross announced that it had acquired BRiC, the 124-acre former IBM campus at 5000 T-Rex Avenue. The deal covers more than 1.7 million square feet and is the company's first move into Boca Raton. For anyone who lives in Broken Sound, the biggest campus in the neighborhood has a new name behind it. Right now, the most active public use of that campus is still the Sunday market.

What the New Owner Actually Said

Related Ross is the company that built CityPlace in West Palm Beach starting in 1998. It is also behind Village Landing, a 71-acre mixed-use development in Wellington. That track record leads people to expect big plans. The press release itself is much more careful. It says the company "will continue operating BRiC as an office and technology campus while advancing a long-term vision for the property."

Chairman and CEO Stephen M. Ross framed the purchase this way:

"We want to build on what is already working here and help create the conditions for more companies, talent and ideas to thrive."

Executive Vice President Jordan Bargas said the goal is "a workplace environment with a curated mix of amenities, retail and restaurants that can evolve with the businesses here." The release names no restaurants, no retail tenants and no construction dates. It does say the Related Ross Foundation is bringing its Build Together initiative to Boca Raton and will work with local organizations to identify community priorities.

So the new owner has promised to build on what already works at BRiC. On a weekend, the clearest example of that is the market in Lot H.

The Part of BRiC That Already Works on a Sunday

Boca Farmer's Market runs every Sunday, all year, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. It sets up in BRiC Parking Lot H at 4950 Communication Avenue, and parking on site is free. The Tribune describes the lot as sitting behind Miller's Ale House, which is the easiest way to find it the first time. The sale did not interrupt the schedule. The Boca Raton Tribune's weekend guide for October 9 through 11, published October 7, lists the market for this Sunday. Neither the market nor Related Ross has announced any market-specific change since the acquisition.

The market's lineup is what keeps it from feeling like a generic produce stop. Businesses named in the Tribune's July profile include:

• Raw Milk Boca
• Matcha by Numu
• La Vida Vanilla
• Gurkan Pickles
• Doughnuttery
• Heidi Jo's GrassFed Beef Jerky
• That Green Juice
• Savor a Bit
• Mimi's Granola

The same profile also mentions food trucks, organic coffee, pastries, sourdough bread and bagels, cinnamon rolls and crumb cakes. It does not name the vendors behind them, so the coffee line and the truck you end up at will be your own discovery. The market also offers free mobility and Pilates classes. Its own social feed calls it family- and dog-friendly.

The market's current feed is promoting a fall Sunday with a first-come pumpkin giveaway, free fall photo-booth pictures, face painting, free paint kits and Halloween costumes. The post does not give a date, so check the market's channels before planning a morning around it.

How a Pickup Event Turned Into an 80-Vendor Sunday

The market grew out of a refrigerator problem. Jess and Adam Del Vecchio founded Raw Milk Boca after Jess started adding raw kefir to her morning iced coffee and then watched it disappear from local grocery shelves. She began driving to farms several hours away to buy raw kefir, raw milk, yogurt and pasture-raised eggs. Those trips became a home-delivery business across Boca Raton. When demand outgrew delivery, the couple started hosting pickup events. Those gatherings went well enough that they launched a full market.

The market's site dates the launch to April 2025. It opened with about 20 to 25 vendors and now hosts more than 80. That is roughly three to four times as many stalls in about a year and a half. According to the Tribune, attendance runs in the hundreds during summer and in the thousands during peak season.

"We build community every week," Jess Del Vecchio told the paper. The market started with a resident looking for one product. It grew to fit a corporate parking lot that sits empty on Sundays, and nothing about it needed the campus to change first.

The Campus on Weekdays

The rest of BRiC keeps office hours. The campus website calls the 1.7-million-square-foot park "open to the public." It also offers a self-guided art tour Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. The tour covers a lot of history. This is where IBM created its first personal computer, and Related Ross's release opens with that fact.

The campus also lists two coffee shops, JAVA and Marcel Brewer's, both open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The site does not say whether people who don't work on campus can buy coffee there. The fitness center is for tenants only. The ballroom and conference center can be booked for events. The BRiC website has no publication date and still refers to plans from the previous owner, CP Group. Treat these hours as listed information, not as confirmed operations under the new owner.

The tenant roster is getting more ambitious too. D-Wave Quantum chose BRiC for its new corporate headquarters and is moving from Palo Alto, California. Florida Atlantic University plans to install a D-Wave Advantage2 quantum computer and work with the company on research and career training. From Monday to Friday, BRiC is a workplace that happens to be next door to Broken Sound. On Sunday mornings, Lot H is the part of it the public actually uses.

What's Announced and What Isn't

Some of what you may have read about BRiC's future came out before the sale, under different owners. Here is where each item stands as of today:

Those 2023 entitlements set a ceiling on what could be built. They are not approvals for specific buildings. The applications on the city's April docket came from the previous ownership, and Related Ross may revise or replace them. In April 2026, the city council split in a rare tie vote on the former owners' request to remove the property's DRI designation. The city attorney questioned whether a tie legally counts as a denial.

One nearby project is moving. At 680 W. Yamato Road, next to the Tri-Rail station, construction is underway on Boca Village, an eight-story, 340-unit development by 13th Floor Investments. It will have about 29,500 square feet of street-level commercial space. No tenants or opening date have been announced. The city has approved a landscaping plan for its West Yamato frontage.

Until any of those plans firm up, Lot H is the one part of the campus with a set schedule for the public, and it is open this Sunday at 9 a.m.

When a major landholder changes hands, it raises fair questions for owners in neighboring Broken Sound, and the answers will come in stages as Related Ross files its plans. The Buchbinder Group follows those filings closely and is glad to walk you through what they could mean for your property. Request a private consultation.

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