"It shouldn’t take that long to put some asphalt on a parking lot."
Pickleball by day and concerts by night.
Fort Lauderdale’s popular Holiday Park just about has it all as far as parks go. But it’s still missing one key amenity: A big 1,000-space parking garage. And that’s a problem, city officials say.
The 93-acre park is bringing in big crowds these days, thanks to the Florida Panthers’ new Baptist Health IcePlex along with The Parker and War Memorial Auditorium. But people in search of parking wind up heading to unpaved grassy lots that turn mucky and slippery when it rains.
If Fort Lauderdale were to build the parking garage, it would take at least four years and cost more than $37 million, city officials say.
But there might be another option.
Read more at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel