by Marie Puleo, Pompano Beach Reporter POMPANO BEACH REDEVELOPMENT: The Pompano Beach Planning and Zoning Board, at its meeting on Wednesday night, approved in a 5:2 vote the site plan for Atlantic One, a mixed-use (residential and commercial) project on a 4.97-acre collection of parcels located south of East Atlantic ...

by Marie Puleo, Pompano Beach News Reporter The Pompano Beach City Commission, at its meeting last night, voted unanimously to name the newly reconstructed Pompano Beach fishing pier “The Fisher Family Pier,” in honor of the contributions made by former Mayor Lamar Fisher, now a Broward County Commissioner, as well ...

by Marie Puleo, Pompano Beach Reporter The Pompano Beach City Commission, at its meeting last Tuesday, passed a resolution to appropriate $9.6 million from the City’s Building Permit Fund for the construction of a proposed new Pompano Beach City Hall that would be the anchor of the Innovation District, an ...

Another person was hit and killed on the Pompano Beach train tracks today. Accidents are becoming an almost weekly event in Northern Broward.  A man was crossing the track at around noon today when an Amtrak Train hit him near West Sample Road and Dixie Highway. Local 10 has more ...

ATLANTIC BLVD. BRIDGE OPENING: The redesigned Atlantic Blvd. Bridge in Pompano Beach was officially opened tonight (June 26, 2019). Mayor Rex Hardin and other city officials oversaw the grand opening and christening ceremony. The $5 Million construction and renovation project was funded by the City’s Community Redevelopment Agency (Pompano Beach ...

Pompano! Magazine takes a comprehensive look at the major Pompano Beach construction and redevelopment projects just completed, currently underway or soon to begin. (Part 2) by Jeff Levine, Pompano Beach News Columnist POMPANO BEACH CONSTRUCTION: Last week, we decided to take a look at the various Pompano Beach construction and ...

by Marie Puleo, Pompano Beach News Reporter The Pompano Beach City Commission, at its meeting last night, voted unanimously to name the newly reconstructed Pompano Beach fishing pier “The Fisher Family Pier,” in honor of the contributions made by former Mayor Lamar Fisher, now a Broward County Commissioner, as well ...

By Marie Puleo, Pompano Beach News Reporter POMPANO BEACH 9-11 MEMORIAL: A monument honoring the 343 first responders who died saving lives in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 was installed last week in Founders Park, in front of the Pompano Beach Historical Society building, located at 217 ...

LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA BUGFEST: One of the area's most anticipated annual events --  Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Bugfest by the Sea -- kicks off lobster hunting mini season with multiple fun events. There are two Florida lobster hunting seasons when divers can legally catch lobster --  the two day mini season and the eight-month regular ...

POMPANO BEACH RESTAURANT VIOLATIONS:   As we report on a regular basis, the state continuously monitor food establishments throughout the state, including Pompano Beach restaurants, for cleanliness and other sanitary and health related issues.  It is rare that a restaurant get no violations.  Every so often,  restaurants get a temporary closure.  ...