BC- The new “urbanism”…”Pocket Parks”….Las Olas has one…
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‘The Las Olas Co., owner of the Riverside Hotel, asked the city for an extra three years to act on the hotel expansion, and a city vote on that is coming. The company already had shuttered thriving businesses on the block — including Cafe Europa, Objects d’Art, and O’Hara’s Jazz & Blues Cafe — and in February tore them down.
The vacant properties just east of the Riverside Hotel, stretching to Eighth Avenue, created an unsightly gap on the city’s posh shopping boulevard. But the lot was sodded and lightly landscaped this past weekend.
It won’t be an official park because it’s privately owned and intended for development. But it might be used for weddings and other events.
City Manager George Gretsas said he urged the company to “activate” the space.’
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-042909-lasolas-vacancy,0,1901992.story
