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Terrell Forney<\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0July 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM<\/p>\n
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale\u2019s plan to bring a new City Hall to the community is moving forward, with commissioners getting a look at the financial impact of the three proposed sites.<\/p>\n
City Manager Rickelle Williams said there is some good news for taxpayers.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo deliver the project, we have now reduced about $50 million the cost to bring that project to life,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
The initial $267 million price tag has been reduced to about $217 million.<\/p>\n
The proposal includes remodeling an existing office building at the 101 Tower site on Northeast First Street and Third Avenue or converting the pre-existing federal courthouse across the street into City Hall.<\/p>\n
A third option is a high-rise office site at 1 East Broward in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
The lower cost was made possible in part by reduced developer and design fees and restructuring the terms of the project\u2019s overall payment schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to ensure we could outline a roadmap no matter what outcome and no matter what decision by the city commission would be revealed to us,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
The old City Hall has been out of use for the past few years after sustaining extensive flood damage during record rainfall.<\/p>\n
No matter which of the three options the City Commission ultimately approves, the new City Hall will incorporate key core principles, including being cost-effective, innovative and setting a standard for history and the arts.<\/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:\u00a0July 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale\u2019s plan to bring a new City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-327824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327824","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=327824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}