Downtown Redevelopment
As part of my everyday practice, my firm advises commercial real estate lenders, financial institutions, professional developers and investors. Thus, I am very familiar with the elements that comprise successful development, and wholeheartedly support our city's redevelopment effort.
I am proud to be involved in the recent progress by the city's Community Redevelopment Agency. During recent community wide CRA-sponsored meetings, we have contributed to providing a blue print for positive change that will set the course for planned development and redevelopment in our city. As result, we have a new wonderful public library, a new parking garage and we are finally cleaning up Federal Highway with new landscaping, bus benches, trash receptacles and other landscape and hardscape features. We have also finally managed to remove aging and dangerous eye sores such as the Pirates Inn and the Dania Beach Hotel.
The city should continue this trend by reaching out to highly qualified professional developers to cooperatively explore development opportunities and do what is necessary to expand the local commercial tax base for the benefit of the residents and business owners. One of the key components to our citys success is quality redevelopment using "smart growth" principles.
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Prime redevelopment opportunity in the Dania Beach downtown corridor.
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