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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.
In 1983, Atlantic Boulevard was extended west of NW 31st Avenue and SR 814 was rerouted onto the new segment of Atlantic Boulevard. The north–south section along NW 31 Avenue was redesignated State Road 849 by Florida Department of Transportation , and Hammondville Road became Coconut Creek Parkway and was redesignated SR 912. [ 24 ]
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.
Soon SR 845 reaches Cypress Creek Road (County Road 840, CR 840), which connects to exit 33. The route passes west of Pompano Park Racetrack in Pompano Park. Crossing into Pompano Beach, SR 845 crosses SR 814 (Atlantic Boulevard). Continuing north, SR 845 crosses into Deerfield Beach and reaches a junction with SR 834 (Sample Road).
The mall opened as Pompano Outlet Mall in 1986, and was put into foreclosure only two years after it opened. By 1989 the original outlet mall had closed entirely save for a movie theater. After a failed attempt to reopen it in 1990 under the name Broward Crossing, it was purchased by Shooster Properties and reopened in 1991 as a flea market mall.
Area codes 954 and 754 are the telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Broward County, Florida.Notable cities in the numbering plan area are Fort Lauderdale, Plantation, Hollywood, Parkland, Sunrise, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach, Davie, Weston, Dania Beach, Oakland Park and Pembroke Pines.
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]
An aerial view of the road. Florida State Road 869 (SR 869) is a 24-mile-long (39 km) state road located in western and northern Broward County, acting as a de facto bypass of Fort Lauderdale as well as the northern coastal and southern parts of the county extending north from a junction of I-75 (), I-595 in Sunrise to Coral Springs where it heads eastward towards Florida's Turnpike and ...