The Royal Palm Beach office of the Palm Beach County Tax Collector closed on Friday, Feb. 11, and the agency began operations on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at its new service center in the City of Westlake at 16440 Town Center Parkway, about nine miles west of the previous location.
The site was by purchased by the Tax Collector’s Office and is within an area off of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road that includes several county services. It is near Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue Station 22, which opened in early 2020, and also the future home of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office District 18 substation, set to move to Westlake from its current location at 299 Civic Center Way in Royal Palm Beach near the old tax collector’s office.
Palm Beach County Tax Collector Anne Gannon said that after more than a year of construction, and installation of about 22 miles of cables, she was thrilled to open the new Westlake service center.
“All our partners did an amazing job bringing this new 23,735-square-foot, state-of-the-art service center to the growing western communities of our county,” Gannon said.
Gannon’s office manages property tax collection, as well as motor vehicle registration and driver’s license renewal, and local business tax and tourist development tax collection.
The agency’s six offices also manage boating and sailing registration and offer digital fingerprinting for state licensure, hunting and fishing licenses, as well as copies of Florida birth certificates. They also sell SunPass transponders and offer subscriptions to new Palm Beach County business listings.
The Tax Collector’s Office was the largest occupant at the county’s Midwestern Communities Service Center in Royal Palm Beach.
Palm Beach County Director of Facilities Development Isami Ayala-Collazo said in an e-mail to County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay that the RPB building currently houses several operations that are not slated to move in the immediate future, including the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office, the Palm Beach Clerk & Comptroller’s Office and the PBSO.
“With the tax collector’s office vacating the space as a result of the move to Westlake, we are in the process of reallocating existing spaces amongst current occupants,” Ayala-Collazo explained, adding that the tax collector’s office is still coordinating with movers.
She noted that Gannon’s office was the main driver of visitor influx at that site, and changes in visitor volume would be significant.
Learn more about the office at www.pbctax.com.
