{"id":208731,"date":"2026-03-27T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:26:06","slug":"art-and-retail-district-set-to-make-fort-lauderdale-cool-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208731\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and retail district set to \u2018make Fort Lauderdale cool again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vintage store next to a matcha cafe next to a romance bookstore across the street from a brewery next to a pilates studio. Crisp white walls decorated in murals you\u2019d expect to find in Wynwood. A shiny skyline in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>For the trend-seeking 20-something-year-olds of Fort Lauderdale, Thrive Art District, a commerce and arts hub near downtown, may be their new oasis.<\/p>\n<p>What was once two city blocks of dingy industrial warehouses is now an alluring complex of stores, cafes, artist studios and event space meant to attract Fort Lauderdale\u2019s burgeoning population of young professionals and South Floridians willing to drive from Miami and West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article315078401.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vintage store next to a matcha cafe next to a romance bookstore across the street from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,28,249,251,250,114,266,109,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-208731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-social","16":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208731","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=208731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}