mass shooting event<\/a> last December in which five people were injured.<\/p>\n\u201cIt used to be part of Fort Lauderdale, this used to be a place to come to for dining and casual drinking. It\u2019s no longer, it\u2019s become a party city, so we want to do away with the Bourbon Street attitude,\u201d Trantalis said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom barricades to extra officers on patrol, Fort Lauderdale Police announced new plans to beef up security in the Himmarshee entertainment district. NBC6’s Kim Wynne reports\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The restaurant owners tell us they\u2019re glad to see the bar hours cut back. At Pizza Craft, for example, the owner told us he\u2019s been closing his speakeasy bar at 11 p.m. just to keep the nightclub partiers out because, he said, they wrecked his restrooms and were too rowdy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ongoing shootings, stabbings, violence and criminal activity have created an environment that is unacceptable for residents, visitors, businesses, and employees,\u201d said Adam Peterson at the city commission meeting, representing a restaurant owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Representing bar owners, Ellen Bogdanoff told the commissioners the increased police presence is working, and there\u2019s no need to cut back bar hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to attack the problem, not a broad brush where you put people out of business who invested their hard-earned dollars,\u201d Bogdanoff said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ian Lowe says half of his earnings come after 2 a.m. at Fat Cats bar, catering to first responders and entertainment industry workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI firmly believe that everybody deserves a happy hour, no matter what shift you work,\u201d Lowe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He thinks an earlier last call will do nothing to prevent crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all been in these parking lots, and the loitering and the parking lot parties and bringing their own drinks from outside, none of these people come inside our businesses,\u201d Lowe explained.<\/p>\n
The issue is not yet officially settled. The city commission will have to pass it again on second reading at its next meeting in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale says enough is enough. The city commission voted to eliminate the Himmarshee Entertainment District, which is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-434279","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\/434279","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=434279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}