The Quarterdeck restaurant chain has signed a 10-year lease to open a location on Dania Beach’s pier, according to the Sun Sentinel. The proposal, which was approved yesterday by Dania Beach city commissioners, paves the way for the restaurant to open its doors by the end of the summer. [more]

From left: Villa Teresa, Royal Palm Villas and Emerald Plaza
A Fort Lauderdale-based investor has sold three properties in Broward County, according to Gregory Matus, regional manager/vice president at the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. The properties included the 38-unit Villa Teresa Apartments in Wilton Manors, Royal Palm Apartments in Lauderdale Lakes and Emerald Plaza, a mixed-use property in Dania Beach. — Alexander Britell [more]

After fighting for more than three decades to prevent an expansion of the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, homeowners in adjacent Dania Beach say they’re ready to throw in the towel. But first they want Broward County to buy their homes at a fair price, claiming that the new runway would decimate their property values and make it difficult to find buyers. In this video from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, residents aired their grievances with Kent George, aviation director of Broward County.

Foreclosures, dried-up financing and simple bad timing means countless
South Florida construction projects now sit unfinished and all but
abandoned. In the subtropical climate, the wood develops mold and
degrades and the metal rusts. Mike Enos figures he can wrap up this problem, no matter the size of the mess. Fast Wrap, a franchise operation based in Reno, Nev., describes its
work as asset protection. Think shrink-wrapping on a massive scale. Now
trying to get a foothold in South Florida, Fast Wrap claims to
physically protect everything from furniture to cars to boats — and
even houses and industrial buildings. It has 11 franchises, and
recently opened one in Dania Beach, conveniently close to a slew of
foreclosed homes in the tri-county area. [more]

Commercial real estate firm Fairchild Partners has completed a $1
million renovation of Airport Commerce Park, an 80,000 square-foot
office complex near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Jose Juncadella, founder and principal of Miami-based Fairchild
Partners, said the company will also build a 10,000-square foot office
building on the site and complete it by the second quarter of 2010. It
will be designed according to the US Green Building Council’s LEED
standards. The complex would be one of the first to gain certification
in Dania Beach.
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