Used IBC totes in Delray Beach, Florida

What the sources say about Delray Beach

Atlantic Avenue, State Road 806, is the main east-west route and central commercial street downtown.

Delray Medical Center (1,280 employees) and the county school district (1,123) were its largest employers in 2018-2019.

Pineapples became the area's primary crop after canneries were built in 1911; Everglades drainage later lowered the water table.

More background on Delray Beach

February, the driest month, averages 2.55 inches of rain, and the 1925 Gymnasium at Old School Square has been restored.

ZIP codes and neighbors

33444, 33445, 33483. Nearest: Boynton Beach (83,095), Boca Raton (102,238), Lake Worth Beach (44,417).

What that means for totes

Our reading: the downtown restaurant street and a hospital suggest food-service and cleaning supply use. Say what the tote held.

Coastal homes should rinse and check cages.

A city with a Japanese garden, a historic school square and a pineapple past has a mix of heritage and tourism. Our reading: a restaurant on Atlantic Avenue has little room, so measure the back door and the alley before you ask.

Before you buy in Delray Beach, measure the alley behind your building. Many downtown shops share narrow service alleys, and a tote needs a straight approach and room to turn a hand truck.

Our reading: Delray Beach's pineapple-farming past gave way to a downtown restaurant, retail and hotel economy, so restaurants and caterers are the likeliest commercial users of cleaning-concentrate or grease-related totes. Restaurants should say whether a tote held food-safe liquid and, if it held cooking oil, whether it was drained. Households with downtown lots have the same shaded-pad and screen questions as elsewhere on the coast.