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Terrell Forney<\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0March 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM<\/p>\n
Commissioners in Fort Lauderdale discuss upgrades to International Swimming Hall of Fame <\/p>\n
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The International Swimming Hall of Fame on Fort Lauderdale Beach has been a landmark site for decades, drawing nautical enthusiasts from near and far.<\/p>\n
But the property is on the verge of a $220 million facelift that will reshape a portion of the central beach area.<\/p>\n
Renderings show what a revamped Hall of Fame would look like for the west building, a six-story structure and a nearly 204,000-square foot multi-purpose building and family friendly aquarium. <\/p>\n
City commissioners are expected to vote on the plans Tuesday evening in what\u2019s being called a private-public partnership.<\/p>\n
The Hall of Fame sits on city-owned land, but it\u2019s run by an LLC called HOFP, or Hall of Fame Partners.<\/p>\n
The idea to transform the current site has been in the works for roughly six years and would be done in four phases.<\/p>\n
If and when it\u2019s complete, the new International Swimming Hall of Fame will also house a restaurant, a large event space and a 24,000 square foot museum.<\/p>\n
There will be large open pedestrian walkways along the waterfront as well. <\/p>\n
The iconic diving board, one of the world\u2019s tallest at nine stories, would remain in place, securing its future at the popular tourist attraction. <\/p>\n
Plans for the east building will come before the commission later this year.<\/p>\n
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Terrell Forney<\/p>\n
Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM Commissioners in Fort Lauderdale discuss upgrades to International Swimming Hall of Fame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-177040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}