Follow the Green Brick Road: "Oz" Coming to Broward

My first thought --

Where the hell am I supposed to park when I go to concerts?

Dan.

Don't think.

Prepare to be assimilated.

The Borg are coming...

(Alan Cohen)

I could wile away the hours
Conferr' with the flowers
Consultin' with the ra
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchi'
If I only had a brain

I'd unravelany riddle
For any indiv'le
In trouble or in pain

(Dr Augusta)

With the retail and all that jazz
You could be another Chaz
Complete with his raz a ma taz

(Alan Cohen)

Oh I would tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think somemore

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
Myheart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a derry
If I onlyhad a brain

Dan -- a high rise parking tower. In the artist's rendering I believe it's the seventh tower from the left.

Pulp, your wit is amazing! You just made my evening! LOL

Damn, I was hoping this was about the Beecher and Keller 'Oz'.

So we can assume this will include affordable housing so the barristers and concierges and park refuse workers who will make up the bulk of the employment can also stroll to work?

While Sunrise commissioners and the zillionaire Cohen happily contemplate their Land of Oz, municipal code enforcement people swept the city today for signs and banners suspended from the fronts of independent small businesses in strip malls. The proprietors deploy these signs as the chief means of attracting customers. They don't have the cash to do much else on the marketing front, seeing how local property taxes soared by 40 to 50 percent, and they were forced to post thousands in non-refundable utility deposits as a price for opening their doors in the first place. So there they sit --milked dry by a local government for exhorbitant fees and taxes, and handcuffed by code enforcers who rip down signs "because it looks like a jungle out there." Forget about the First Amendment right to free speech and the Sisyphean struggle to break even or, heaven forbid, eke out a small profit. It's the aesthetics that count the most in the City of Sunrise. We all trust that Mr. Cohen will get the variances and waivers he needs to build his enclave economy on the edge of the Everglades. After all, it will be aesthetically pleasing. One can only hope that the gasping, soon-to-be displaced business owners of central Sunrise get a fair shot at the pool of 13,000 jobs he projects for the Land of Oz.

You can tell they had just come from the poppy field when this was written: It mentions picking up a newspaper from a newsstand, as though there will be one of either in the near future.

What alarms me is that they are proposing to build a theatre "3 times the size" of the Broward Center. Where are they getting their audience from? The Broward Center does well enough with its national tours, but Broward County has never been able to sustain large regional theatres.

The largest local venture, the Stage Door Theatre, cut costs by dumping their union contract. The most successful venture, Mosaic Theatre in Plantation, rents a high school black-box with about a hundred seats. Smaller projects are scattered along the eastern corridor.

Did someone do a feasibility study on this project they forgot to share?

I suspect the developers are blowing a lot of smoke up someone's nether regions.

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