{"id":293284,"date":"2026-06-02T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:16:06","slug":"developer-of-galleria-mall-megaproject-shrugs-off-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293284\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer of Galleria mall megaproject shrugs off critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-based developer behind the sprawling, nine-tower redevelopment of Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Galleria mall says he\u2019s excited about the project, but he has one major complaint: It\u2019s taking too long.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Galbut, whose real estate collective purchased the dying shopping mall last year, discussed his plans for the mall and presented never-before-seen renderings of the redevelopment while speaking on a panel at a real estate conference Thursday afternoon in Hollywood. A slideshow presentation quickly flipped through images of a shiny new Macy\u2019s store, tall glass towers and verdant landscaping for the crowd of real estate moguls and insiders at the Bisnow Broward State of the Market event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article315898288.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami-based developer behind the sprawling, nine-tower redevelopment of Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Galleria mall says he\u2019s excited about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,28,249,251,250,114,266,109],"class_list":["post-293284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293284","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=293284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}