For thirty years, the mental map of downtown Delray has ended at Swinton Avenue. Everything east of that line was Atlantic, and everything west of it was a place you drove through. Summer 2026 is when that ends. Between the rolling openings at Sundy Village, a summer's worth of free midweek parking, and a handful of new restaurants filling out the blocks in between, the neighborhood residents have been living in is quietly reorganizing itself around a new corner.
If you already live here, this is less a preview than a field guide. Here is what is opening, what is happening, and how to plan a summer around it without fighting for a spot at Boston's on a Saturday.
The Sundy Village handoff
The seven-acre campus at Atlantic and Swinton has been the elephant on the corner for years. It is now a working address.