Palm Beach County plans to join Florida’s Phase 2 reopening on September 8, following the Labor Day holiday weekend.
According to The Palm Beach Post, the proposed Phase 2 approach is broken down into multiple steps.
The Palm Beach Post lists them below as:
- “Step 1: Reopen indoor entertainment venues, most at 50% capacity, such as bowling alleys, trampoline centers, escape rooms, movie theaters, playhouses, skating centers and others. Full outdoors capacity for restaurants. Tentative date: Sept. 8
- Step 2: Reopen brick-and-mortar schools. The date will be determined by the school district, but county officials say this should not occur until three or four weeks after Step 1.
- Step 3: Reopen concert halls, auditoriums, bingo parlors and comedy clubs at 50% capacity. Tentative date: Oct. 19.
- Step 4: Allow venues from Step 1 to add capacity to 75% (but 66% for playhouses). Tentative date: Nov. 2.
- Step 5: Reopen bars, arcades, strip clubs, billiard halls, smoking lounges and nightclubs. Date to be determined by approval of governor.”
The county has remained in Phase 1 since May 11 due to the growing case numbers for COVID-19 but are now moving further into reopening as these metrics are changing.
These dates are tentative as they have the ability to be changed still due to any changes in COVID-19 case numbers or concerning statistics.
The full Phase 2 reopening plan can be read here: https://www.scribd.com/document/474317098/Phase-2-reopening-plan-for-Palm-Beach-County#from_embed