City To Spend $15.8m For Walkable Downtown

Sunrise, Florida to offer incentives to a private developer to "carve out a downtown."

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August 14, 2002, 6:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"City Commissioners have all agreed that Sunrise needs a pedestrian-friendly downtown where residents can walk to work, shopping and restaurants. After years of studying plans, tightening land use codes and raising permitted building heights, the Commission informally directed the City Manager to pursue an urban mixed-use project near the giant Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall."

Thanks to Sheryl Stolzenberg

FULL STORY: Sunrise offers developer $15.8 million to build a downtown

Tuesday, August 13, 2002 in Sun-Sentinel

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