2024-11-15T15:10:55-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/28166905/al-boeke-father-of-sea-ranch-dead-at-88 Nam Henderson 2011-11-20T19:00:42-05:00 >2011-11-20T21:48:53-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/i8/i8bvwivik9e36hal.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Mr. Boeke&rsquo;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.</p></em><br /><br /><p> 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.</p> <p> He developed the project while vice president of planning and development for Oceanic Properties, a division of Castle &amp; 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&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Boeke assembled a team of some of the most environmentally aware architects in the country as well as the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> More also from the LA Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-al-boeke-20111120,0,801340.story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></p>