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Pompano Beach Budget Takes Shape; New Skatepark Proposed
City Hall on a sunny day. Courtesy of the City of Pompano Beach. The City of Pompano Beach held a budget workshop for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 this past month, which ran for several hours after an initial presentation from city staff. City staff recommended a balanced...
New Hotel Slated for Pompano Beach
The Pompano Beach City Commission took another step towards a new 178-foot hotel at 101 South Ocean Blvd. at a commission meeting last week. The 220-room hotel is in the early stages of development after overcoming its first hurdle of getting the site...
Pompano Beach Approves $2 Billion Downtown Investment
In a nearly five-hour special meeting of the City Commission and the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), a master developer agreement with RocaPoint Partners for downtown Pompano Beach was approved in a 4-2 vote. The agreement, decades in the making,...
Old Town Welcomes New Faces
Over 150 guests, including Pompano Beach Mayor Rex Harden and Pompano Beach City Council members, attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Old Town Square. This 10-story mixed-use apartment tower will buttress the city’s historic district that is becoming a hub for...
Pompano Beach has a New Friendship City
At its Feb. 13 Commission meeting, the City of Pompano Beach signed a resolution to make the City of Ascoli Satriano, Italy an official friendship city. A friendship city is a more informal version of a sister city. President Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated the...
Go & Flirt Spa Owner Gains Advanced Certification and Moves to New Location
By Ellen Crane Lighthouse Point, Florida – The popular skin care and nail salon, Go & Flirt Skincare, has moved to a new Lighthouse Point location, announced owner Wendy Rodrich. The new spa is conveniently located within the Salons by JC at 4750 North Federal...
A Visual Tasting From the Visit Lauderdale Food & Wine Festival
By Danielle Charbonneau This weekend foodies flocked to Fort Lauderdale for "The Grand Tasting" — a signature event of the Visit Lauderdale Food & Wine Festival. Here's a visual sampling of some of the culinary treats you you missed. But don't worry — these...
Broward Health Files Plans for an Emergency Department in Lighthouse Point
On Dec. 13, the City of Lighthouse Point’s Development Review Committee reviewed plans to transform a 1.03-acre site on Federal Highway, north of the Walmart (at 5360 N. Federal Highway), into a Broward Health freestanding emergency department (ED). As reported by the...
Mayor Swears in Jack Vaccaro as New LHP City Police Chief
Jack Vaccaro has officially been pinned and sworn in by Mayor Kyle Van Buskirk and the Lighthouse Point City Commission as the City's eighth Police Chief. On Jan. 9, a crowd of uniformed police officers, Vaccaro’s two daughters and wife, gathered at the City...
City of Deerfield Beach Launches Pilot Compost Program
One hundred houses and five businesses are now taking part in a pilot compost program in the City of Deerfield Beach through March 2025. The USDA-funded community organic and food waste recycling and compost pilot program is designed to test strategies for the...