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Community

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By Brian Hero

ver the past 20 plus years, Fort Lauderdale has have a huge impact on the real estate market with the need
developed into a dynamic city with a thriving for additional housing. It will have a negative impact in
Oeconomic center attracting businesses from around terms of traffic and congestion, especially along the
the US as well as from other countries. Fort Lauderdale’s 17th Street corridor bordering Harbor Beach and Harbor
economy which primarily relied on tourism and the yachting Inlet residential communities. Change will happen and, as
industry has evolved into a more broad-based economy to always, residents will have to adapt to the new normal.
include the finan-cial and technology industries. This change A $35 million bypass road is being planned through Port
has been driven by design and by the de-sire to become a Everglades to follow the original route through the Port used
world class city and a major trading partner with the prior to 9/11, when vehicles regularly traveled through the
Caribbean and Latin America. Port to get to the beaches. The bypass road will allow
northbound beach traffic on Federal Highway and traffic
These economic changes are bringing more people into the
coming from State Road 84 to avoid the congest-ed section
local area to live, work and play. Population growth will

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