For years, Fort Lauderdale’s Cypress Creek Road corridor has been a revolving door of major commercial activity, with big name companies setting up shop, only to leave within a short time. Now, the city’s Planning and Zoning Board has thrown its support behind sweeping code changes aimed at creating a greater sense of community and purpose.
Those changes, proponents say, would open the door to a so-called Uptown Urban Village encompassing 353 acres.
The idea — which has been five years in the making through a public-private partnership called Envision Uptown — includes leveraging transportation assets such as Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, the Cypress Creek Tri-Rail station, as well as Interstate 95.
The corridor currently enjoys an economic resurgence with the presence of Hotwire Communications, Trividia Health, Microsoft, Zimmerman Advertising, and the soon-to-be-completed Cypress Creek Medical Pavilion. All have joined the longtime resident software company Citrix Systems, which has a prominent place in the corridor, to employ thousands of people. Their presence is reminiscent of the 1980s, when companies such as Harris, Bendix, Allied Signal and other technology companies had operations there.
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