Lake Clarke Shores takes its name from John Newton Clarke, a Lake Worth grocer who claimed land here in 1897 and briefly tried his hand at growing pineapples before that industry collapsed in the 1910s. The town wasn’t formally settled until the 1930s and didn’t incorporate until 1957, largely to avoid being annexed by West Palm Beach, and today it remains a quiet, mostly residential community built around the lake it’s named for, with most commercial activity confined to Forest Hill Boulevard.

Elbaz Construction’s work in bedroom communities like Lake Clarke Shores tends to focus on updating homes built in that mid-century wave for how families actually live now — opened-up kitchens, added bathrooms, and additions that give a growing household more room without overwhelming a modest lot. We treat a project like this with the same attention to detail as a much larger one, because the homeowners living with the results deserve exactly that.