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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]
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The Galleria was originally the Sunrise Center, an open-air shopping mall constructed in 1954, but was demolished except for the Jordan Marsh store (reopened as South Florida's first Dillard's in 1993; Dillard's stores later opened at Pembroke Lakes Mall in 1995 and The Mall at Wellington Green in 2001), and rebuilt as an enclosed mall. [1]
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.
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 ...
Broward Boulevard is an 11.766 miles (18.936 km) [1] [2] long major east–west thoroughfare through Broward County, Florida, mostly designated State Road 842 (SR 842).The western terminus is an intersection with Commodore Drive in Plantation, and it continues east to U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Fort Lauderdale.
Miramar is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market [72] and the seventeenth largest television market [73] 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 Nuevo ...
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.