87°F
Water temperature at NOAA buoy 41122, offshore of Fort Lauderdale
Preview issue · Week of September 14, 2026
A weekly record of what happens on this stretch of sand
In this issue
Published Mondays
01 The flag and the water today The lifeguards' report and NOAA's tide 02 This weekend and the season 66 dated listings 03 Where to eat and drink 90 places, sorted not ranked 04 The parks, with their hours 46 in the city, 7 on the ocean side 05 What is going up 6 towers rising 06 Every building on the corridor 91 on the record
From the city calendar
Coming up
Tue, Sep 15
Culture Celebrations
Pompano Beach Cultural Center
Tue, Sep 15, 6:00 pm
Ballet and Jazz - Ages 6 - 9
The Hive Black Box Theater
Tue, Sep 15, 7:00 pm
Tween/Teen Modern Dance
The Hive Black Box Theater
Wed, Sep 16, 7:00 pm
Intermediate Hip-Hop
The Hive Black Box Theater
Sat, Sep 19, 10:00 am
Fire Station Open House
Pompano Beach Fire Station #61
Mon, Sep 21, 6:00 pm
KDV Pickleball League
Sgt. Kip Jacoby Park
Mon, Sep 21, 6:00 pm
New E. Pat Larkins Center Community Engagement Sessions
E. Pat Larkins Community Center
Sat, Sep 26, 10:00 am
Rooted & Resilient
Ali Cultural Center
The next 8 dated listings on the city calendar, each dated from its own page. All 66 still to come, by month and by season, are on what's on.
The record
Every oceanfront building, on the record
91 buildings between Hillsboro Beach and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, with the specifications we can stand behind and a visible pending mark on the 227 we cannot yet.
The corridor, north to south, in storeys
The beach report
What the water is doing
Tides, temperature and the light, for Sep 14, 2026. Read from NOAA when this page was built, not measured by us.
0.3 ft
Significant wave height at that buoy, which is the average of the highest third
81°F
Air temperature at the same buoy
7:06 am
Sunrise at the pier, computed for its latitude
7:26 pm
Sunset at the pier, the same calculation
Tides at Hillsboro Inlet
Predicted, not observed. NOAA computes these in advance from the harmonics of the station, so a wind that holds the water in will beat the table.
Tide Time Height
Low 4:55 am 0.2 ft
High 11:11 am 3.3 ft
Low 5:20 pm 0.7 ft
High 11:17 pm 3.1 ft
Tide predictions from NOAA CO-OPS station 8722862 at Hillsboro Inlet. Conditions observed by NOAA NDBC buoy 41122 off Fort Lauderdale, most recently at Sep 14, 8:00 am. Fetched Sep 14, 8:23 am. Sunrise and sunset are computed for the pier.
Read by section
01 02 03 04
Eat and Drink
90 places rated by Google, 20 happy hours with their evidence
What's On
66 dated listings from the city calendar, this weekend first
The Beach
The flag today, the tide, the pier, and 46 parks with their hours
Living Here
6 towers going up, and the record of the corridor they are rising on
Eat and drink
90 places to eat and drink, sorted and not ranked
Every restaurant, bar, cafe and ice cream counter Google answered for between Hillsboro Beach and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, with Google's rating and review count beside each. Nobody here has eaten at all of them yet, so the reader sorts and the reader decides.
20 carry a happy hour claim with its evidence: 1 where two independent sources agree, 12 where one source, 7 where sources disagree. A time with one source behind it says so.
What's changing
What is going up
6 towers rising on a beach that mostly stopped building before 1980. Who is building each one, when it delivers, and what stood there before, with every figure marked pending until a source confirms it. Marder Group holds a listing in 2 of these buildings, and the row says which.
Solemar Completed Completed 2023 Vacant beach property when Related bought it in 2011 for about $6.2 million, held for nearly a decade through the recession, and launched only after Sabbia Beach nearby sold out. Marder Group holds a listing in this building. Casamar Completed Completed 2025 Beach Villas Condominiums, a three storey building of 48 homes from 1979, on a lot zoned for 105 feet until the city raised the limit to 232 in 2021. Marder Group holds a listing in this building. Rosewood Residences Hillsboro Beach Topped out Delivery 2027 Land once owned by homebuilder John Kennelly, bought out of bankruptcy by Dezer Development in 2016 for $28.5 million and by Related in 2020 for $30 million, vacant by 2024, and rezoned only after residents took the town to court over the height. Waldorf Astoria Residences Pompano Beach Topped out Delivery 2027 A vacant lot on the county record since at least 2010, bought by the Motwani family in 2011 together with the site across the road that became the Alliance apartments, and approved for 92 condominiums in 2015. Armani/Casa Residences Pompano Beach Announced Delivery pending A 0.6 acre lot that a company led by Tomas Sinisterra bought in 2015 for $3.2 million, and which sat on the city's 2023 agenda under an earlier project name, Ocean Park. Ocean 580 Announced Delivery pending The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Pompano Beach Under construction Delivery pending Vacant land running from the ocean to the Intracoastal, bought by Lionheart Capital in 2013, approved for a taller two tower scheme in 2018, and sold to Fortune International in 2020 for $27.5 million. W Pompano Beach Hotel and Residences Announced Delivery pending A privately owned lot at the end of Atlantic Boulevard that the city has used for about 230 public parking spaces, where two earlier condominium schemes, WCI's OceanSide from 2005 and Chetrit Group's Oceanside Pompano Beach approved in 2016, were never built.
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