Al Boeke "father" of Sea Ranch, dead at 88.

2011-11-20T19:00:42-05:00

Mr. Boeke’s vision paid off. In the 1960s, single-family homes at Sea Ranch sold for about $18,000; they now sell for between $500,000 and $2 million. Many are used as weekend or vacation homes.

Although he passed on November 8th, his obituary was printed in the New York Times Nov 20th, Sunday edition. Al Boeke is perhaps most famously known as the developer-architect whose vision resulted in Sea Ranch.

He developed the project while vice president of planning and development for Oceanic Properties, a division of Castle & Cooke, a real estate entity of the Dole Food Company. He was an adherent of the so-called new-town movement and for the project Mr. Boeke assembled a team of some of the most environmentally aware architects in the country as well as the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.

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Al Boeke "father" of Sea Ranch, dead at 88.