{"id":332946,"date":"2026-07-08T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332946\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:17:15","slug":"fort-lauderdale-chooses-developer-plan-for-new-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332946\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale chooses developer plan for new city hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Fort Lauderdale has decided to move forward with FTL City Hall Partners, a developer group, to design and build its new City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s old City Hall was badly damaged during historic flooding in April of 2023 and later demolished.<\/p>\n<p>In April of this year, the city delayed its agreement with the developer to research alternative options.<\/p>\n<p>That included two office buildings that could have been retrofitted to accommodate City Hall, and the federal courthouse building downtown. The courthouse is set to be replaced by a new one later this year.<\/p>\n<p>But after reviewing its options the city decided to go back to its original plan with FTL City Hall Partners. The deal will have the city pay roughly $475 million over the next 30 years to finance its new home.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/government-politics\/2026-04-21\/fort-lauderdale-delays-city-hall-agreement-will-explore-other-options\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale delays city hall agreement, will explore other options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a News In Brief report. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WLRN News<\/a> for in-depth reporting from South Florida and Florida news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Fort Lauderdale has decided to move forward with FTL City Hall Partners, a developer group,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-332946","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\/332946","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=332946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}