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Las Olas Boulevard is a major east-west thoroughfare in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States that runs from SW 1st Avenue in the Central Business District to Florida State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale Beach. The name "Las Olas" means "The Waves" in Spanish. The road once carried the designations of State Road A1A Alt. and State Road 842.
It is in the former club district in downtown Fort Lauderdale. There are two main streets that run through the district, Las Olas Boulevard and Himmarshee Street. The riverwalk was first proposed in 1926. After a 1986 bond issue, it started being developed and the first section was completed in 1990. [2]
Its location at the corner of Las Olas Boulevard places it on one end of the Fort Lauderdale strip. It is well-known for being the host of multiple surfing and boogie boarding championships in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a boogie-boarding competition won by Jason Goodman in 1988 was the signature event during this time period.
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FORT LAUDERDALE — Picture, for a moment, Las Olas Boulevard without a median lined with the black olive trees that have been there for decades, shading all the cars that drive by. Under a long ...
Beginning in 1986, with the passage of a bond issue, the city of Fort Lauderdale began an aggressive effort to connect the city's arts and entertainment district, the historic downtown area, and the Las Olas shopping and beach district, and to shake its long-standing reputation as a cultural wasteland and college-student party town.
100 Las Olas - 499/152 46 2020 Residential / Hotel 2 Icon Las Olas 455 / 139 42 2017 Residential / Apartment [1] 3 Las Olas River House: 452 / 138 42 2004 Residential [2] 4 Las Olas Grand - 420 / 128 38 2005 Residential [3] 5 110 Tower: 410 / 125 30 1988 Commercial. Formerly known as AutoNation Tower [4] 6 Bank of America Tower: 407 / 124 23 ...
Las Olas Riverfront: Fort Lauderdale: Las Olas Shops: Fort Lauderdale: Lauderhill Mall [7] Lauderhill: Legacy Place [8] Palm Beach Gardens: Lincoln Road Mall: City Center, Miami Beach: Loehmann's Fashion Island: Aventura: The Mall at 163rd Street: North Miami Beach: The Mall at Wellington Green: Wellington: Metrofare Shops & Cafe: Government ...