{"id":260881,"date":"2026-05-06T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260881\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:38:07","slug":"too-big-for-las-olas-tell-us-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260881\/","title":{"rendered":"Too big for Las Olas? Tell us \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone loves Las Olas, Fort Lauderdale\u2019s signature street. So everyone surely has an opinion about the high-end, five-story luxury watch store proposed for 1117 E. Las Olas Blvd., complete with champagne bar, bridal studio and shiny new Rolexes.<\/p>\n

As our Susannah Bryan reports<\/a>, critics say this store is way too large for its location, along the Himmarshee Canal. They say it\u2019s 88 feet tall, or eight stories (the developer says 74 feet).<\/p>\n

City leaders who must vote on this project need to hear from you. So tell us. Write to letters@sunsentinel.com<\/a>. Pro or con, we will publish the best letters. The Fort Lauderdale City Commission is scheduled to vote on the project May 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone loves Las Olas, Fort Lauderdale\u2019s signature street. So everyone surely has an opinion about the high-end, five-story…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2853,249,251,250,114,482,109],"class_list":["post-260881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-editorials","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-opinion","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260881","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=260881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}