The Metropolis of Pompano Seaside unveiled two potential grasp builders for over 75 acres of  property owned by the Metropolis and the Pompano Seaside Neighborhood Redevelopment Company at a public discussion board final week. The builders, Associated City Improvement Group and RocaPoint Companions unveiled their competing plans for the parcels earlier than a packed auditorium within the Pompano Seaside Cultural Heart. 

The displays showcased their visions for a brand new downtown Pompano that may match snuggly between Atlantic and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevards. “Not many cities get to construct a downtown from scratch,” stated Nguyen Tran, Pompano Seaside CRA Director, on the discussion board. 

For greater than three a long time, the Metropolis has assembled parcels of land in what’s going to turn into the brand new downtown Pompano. “That is really a historic day for the Metropolis of Pompano Seaside,” stated Mayor Rex Hardin. 

The plots vary in measurement from .2 to eight.35 acres and don’t all join, making growing the land a inventive problem to which each companies have an answer. 

Lately, downtown growth has been a background consideration for many main infrastructure initiatives in Pompano Seaside. The Metropolis has invested closely in infrastructure within the proposed space to permit for higher-density vertical growth. “Infrastructure is an enormous, huge a part of with the ability to do vertical growth,” stated Albert Milo, Jr., President Associated City Improvement Group

Each firms remarked on the impression of public funding from the Metropolis, which has enhanced the enchantment of Pompano for personal investments.

Negotiating groups from the Metropolis will meet with representatives from the competing companies within the coming months. They’ll decide which agency greatest fulfills a number of overlapping elements and make a suggestion. 

On the discussion board, the tone of the general public enter sharply contrasted with the upbeat temper of the town commissioners, who had been all current. Residents expressed issues that their neighborhood would turn into unrecognizable and that there wouldn’t be a spot for them sooner or later. Nonetheless, Hardin declared that single-family housing within the surrounding neighborhoods is “sacrosanct.”  

Extra alternatives for public enter are deliberate, however not scheduled as of press time.