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Pompano Beach is a Tri-Rail commuter rail station in Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. With 109,000 passengers in the first six months of 2011, it is the 10th-busiest Tri-Rail station. [ 1 ] In 2015, the station had about 800 weekday riders.
The final transfer of air park property occurred in 1981 when 10 acres (40,000 m 2) in the southwestern section of the air park property were purchased by the Pompano Elks Club. These transfers account for the current total 650 acres (2.6 km 2) of the air park. Pompano Beach Air Park is owned by the City of Pompano Beach.
State Road 849 lies entirely within the city limits of Pompano Beach, Florida. In addition, a campus of Broward Community College is situated 0.5-mile (0.80 km) to the west of the northern terminus of SR 849; and motorists can also use the Turnpike, SR 849, and SR 814 eastward to go to Pompano Beach Airpark.
The 13-mile-long (21 km) divided highway extends from the Sawgrass Expressway in Coral Springs to State Road A1A in Pompano Beach. It serves as the latitudinal baseline for the street grid for the city of Pompano Beach. The portion of the boulevard west of U.S. Route 441 is locally maintained as County Road 814.
During a period of high growth, the company opened a 278,000-square foot manufacturing and distribution center in Pompano Beach, Florida in 1961 to meet increasing product demand. Ten years later company’s production of grommets and washers, eyelets, snap fasteners, attaching machines and finishing operations from Brooklyn, New York to a new ...
Tequesta Indians lived in the area. [12]The city's name is derived from the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast. [13]There had been scattered settlers in the area since at least the mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheen and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. [3]
Blanche Ely High School is a high school located in Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida. The school is named for Blanche Ely, former principal and social activist. [2] In addition to Pompano Beach, Ely serves a portion of Deerfield Beach and a portion of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. [3] [4] [5]
Pompano Beach Service Plaza and Operations Center: Coconut Creek–Pompano Beach city line: 66.432: 106.912 — 66: SR 814 (Atlantic Boulevard) Northbound exit and southbound entrance; opened 1994: 67.577: 108.755: 24: 67: Coconut Creek Parkway (CR 912 west) / M.L. King Boulevard – Broward Community College