A pair of Fort Lauderdale men accused of swindling $1 million out of prospective homebuyers for a Davie luxury townhome development they had no way of building may have tried to pull off a similar scheme in Miramar, police said.
Planners in the 1950s wanted to replace large swaths of central Washington with freeways. Canceling those plans saved the city not just from the freeways themselves, but also from an equally stunning plan to demolish thousands more blocks alongside said freeways and “renew” them with a suburban landscape of strip malls, office campuses, and apartment towers.