This weekend marks the 14th annual Las Olas Wine and Food Festival. For those of you who have not attended before, it is certainly worthwhile. For those who will be attending again, you will notice a significant number of vacant storefronts. This situation has been getting worse over the last year. And yet there does [...]
In one of my recent postings at www.abetterftlauderdale.com, I suggested that the City investigate the possibility of recruiting an electric car manufacturer here to Ft Lauderdale and obtain electric vehicles for our inter-city needs at the same time (“A win-win-win-win for Fort Lauderdale”). Far-fetched? No. Here is one city in California (Sonoma) that will soon [...]
Since today is Earth Day, I thought I would share an idea with you on improving Fort Lauderdale. I’d also like to get your comments as I think it’s a win-win-win-win for Fort Lauderdale. I’ve contacted a couple of electric vehicle manufacturers in the US. These are small firms that develop small (2-4 people) enclosed [...]
As many of you know, the 200+ acre area that encompasses the Coral Ridge Country Club and the old American Golf course (the area roughly between Federal Highway and Bay View, & north of Oakland Park and south of Commercial) was sold a few years back to some private developers & investors for approximately $17M. [...]