West Palm's 1-year-old mixed-use village is proving to be a worthy competitor.
West Palm Beach's CityPlace, the 55-acre, $550-million instant injection of Italian art and architecture ingeniously and painstakingly woven into a model mixed-use village of New Urbanism, celebrated its first anniversary last month. The townhouses - 51 of them priced over $300,000 sold out in 10 days - condos and rental apartments, many over retail space, have filled up, and the anchors of Macy's, Barnes & Noble, Williams Sonoma, F.A.O. Schwarz and the magnet of a 20screen Muvico complex ar