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Sunrise Boulevard is a 15.6 miles (25.1 km) long east–west highway serving central Broward County mostly designated State Road 838 (SR 838). The road begins at an interchange with the Sawgrass Expressway in Sunrise and continues east to North Ocean Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, next to Hugh Taylor Birch State Park. [3]
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, unlike many cities in the United States, has an official program for recognizing official neighborhoods. Under the Neighborhood Organization Recognition Program, [ 1 ] over 60 distinct neighborhoods have received official recognition from the city.
Fort Lauderdale (/ ˈ l ɔː d ər d eɪ l / LAW-dər-dayl) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles (48 km) north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean.It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, [7] making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida.
In January 1985, thirteen sites were considered for a proposed Broward County Convention Center. One of the leading sites was a 25-acre (1,100,000 sq ft; 100,000 m 2) parcel that included a 15-acre (650,000 sq ft; 61,000 m 2) trailer park near Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport at U.S. 1 and Northwest 10th Street.
Commercial Boulevard is a 15.2-mile-long (24.5 km) [1] highway serving northern Broward County, Florida, mostly designated as State Road 870 (SR 870).The road extends from its western terminus in Sunrise at SR 869, the Sawgrass Expressway, and serves as a major commercial route through Oakland Park, and Fort Lauderdale, intersecting Florida's Turnpike, U.S. Route 441 (US 441), Interstate 95 (I ...
Frank and Ivy Stranahan, founding pioneers of Fort Lauderdale and the first residents of Las Olas Boulevard. Their trading post Stranahan House is located between the boulevard and New River. Ivy established the first public school in Ft. Lauderdale and later donated the land which would eventually become Stranahan High School. [7]
Through annexation, Sunrise eventually expanded to its current boundaries—encompassing more than 18 square miles, reaching the Everglades and dropping south of I-595/State Road 84. The City is situated approximately six miles west of Fort Lauderdale, and is adjoined by the communities of Weston, Davie, Tamarac, Lauderhill, and Plantation.
Lauderdale Lakes is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market [16] and the seventeenth largest television market [17] in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Miami Herald, and their Spanish-language counterparts El Sentinel and El ...