{"id":253628,"date":"2026-05-01T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253628\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:56:13","slug":"what-to-expect-from-fort-lauderdales-new-water-district-aquariums-art-and-rooftop-dining-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253628\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect from Fort Lauderdale\u2019s new \u2018Water District\u2019: aquariums, art and rooftop dining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Miami Herald;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Miami Herald\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92470c90-34ef-11eb-bd77-23f1e090d6ce.png\"\/><\/a>Thu, April 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"854\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777622173_542_d8980b1505e4ac7d74b63e89fd9015ef.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center, including a 27-meter dive tower, is shown on Friday, March 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p> (Amy Beth Bennett\/South Florida Sun Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p>The peninsula that\u2019s home to both the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center now has a catchy new name: The Water District.<\/p>\n<p>The rebranding dovetails with the ongoing $220 million redesign of the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The reimagined waterfront destination is set to open in late 2028 at 501 Seabreeze Blvd., also home to the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center and its famous dive tower.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/04\/28\/what-to-expect-from-fort-lauderdales-new-water-district-aquariums-art-and-rooftop-dining\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SunSentinel.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">SunSentinel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, April 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM UTC The Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center, including a 27-meter dive tower,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[109345,249,251,250,27917,109340],"class_list":["post-253628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-aquatic-center","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-international-swimming-hall-of-fame","tag-water-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253628","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=253628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}