Coral Springs Top Stories
By LEON FOOKSMAN
July 25, 2024
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A new coffee shop planning to open in Coconut Creek has dropped those plans. Foxtail Coffee Co. is no longer planning to open at 6750 State Road 7, according to Yvonne Lopez, a spokeswoman for the city of Coconut Creek. The chain had filed building permits with the city to ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Sharkey’s Bar & Grill in Coral Springs is expanding to make room for growing crowds, coming for live music and dining. The owner, Richard “Richie” Kushner, said he plans to add another 1,200-square-feet to the 4,900-square-foot restaurant and live music venue by the ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Coral Springs has seen a nearly 60 percent jump in auto thefts since last year, which has the city police chief warning residents to take precautions. “Many of these thefts can be prevented by removing key fobs from your vehicles,” Chief Bradley McKeone wrote in a July 1 ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – On its website, the restaurant bills itself as the No. 1 in Italian and Brazilian cuisine, specializing in traditional foods of northern Italy and the street fare of Brazil. And it’s coming to Coconut Creek. Fornello Italian Cuisine is set to open in the Winston Park Center ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Plans for the Welcome Center at the new North Springs Preserve are moving forward. The $1.5 million center will be located next to the 150-acre public preserve now under construction on the former Heron Bay golf course that straddles Coral Springs and Parkland. It will ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A softball field at Cypress Park in Coral Springs may soon be renamed. The city’s Naming Rights Committee will review a request to rename Field 1 at Cypress Park to “Friedman Field.” Randy Friedman, who recently retired after 29 years with the Youth Softball Association of ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The developer of the planned City Village project in Coral Springs has submitted new plans for building on a portion of the property on the northwest corner of Sample Road and University Drive. Amera Corporation said Monday that it has submitted plans to the city of Coral ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Along the fence encircling Coral Springs Community Garden are flowers, bushes and vines that help produce life to vegetables, plants, and other greenery grown in the garden. They are part of the butterfly garden -- a kind of garden within a garden that attracts butterflies ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Florida Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, who represents Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, and Parkland, is holding a town hall meeting on Tuesday to address community questions and concerns regarding major construction projects on Florida’s Turnpike, Sawgrass Expressway, Sample Road, and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Donde Yubra is a hidden gem for those eager to explore the underrated depths of Colombian cuisine in Coral Springs. This restaurant, formerly known as El Colombiano, has transformed in the past 18 months under new ownership in the Coral Palm Plaza. The new name and a recent ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A Fort Lauderdale woman was arrested after allegedly threatening to “shoot everyone” on a Broward County Transit bus that was driving through Coral Springs earlier this month, a police report said. On July 6, Renisha Thomas, 32, was on a Broward County Transit Bus when she ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The new ELLA café opened Saturday at Pine Ridge Square shopping center in Coral Springs. The café offers coffee, sandwiches, salads, and pastries in a “relaxing, home-like atmosphere,” said Mark Lopez, the company’s director of operations. “It’s a place for family and a ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A 37-year-old Coral Springs man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl in his car during a break at his job in Coconut Creek, according to a police report. Coconut Creek police arrested Daniel Latorre on July 10, three days after the girl accused him of ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - With the Olympic Games approaching, the Northwest Regional Library in Coral Springs is hosting a free Olympic Fencing demonstration on Saturday. The event will include demonstrations involving the three fencing blades used in Olympic fencing - the foil, épée, and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A fire badly damaged an apartment on Friday morning in Coral Springs. Firefighters responded shortly after 9 a.m. to the Victoria Square apartment complex, just south of Walgreens at the intersection of Sample Road and Coral Ridge Drive, said Mike Moser, deputy chief of the ...
PARKLAND, FL – Earlier this year, Drew and Janet Bartoszek took over a nursery in the middle of Parkland, and brought in thousands of trees, bushes, and plants to sell to the public. It was an expansion of the couple’s Gardening Angel Nursery business which they had started two decades earlier ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A 41-year-old man from Coral Springs was recently arrested for allegedly beating another man whose wife he was having an affair with – a fight that landed both men in the hospital. According to a police report, the fight happened on July 4 when the suspect, Timothy Disharoon, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Springs police have made an arrest in the killing of 28-year-old Kinolee Gardner – a homeless man found shot dead in front of a business on Wiles Road on July 2. Police announced Tuesday the arrest of 25-year-old Christian Isaiah Davis in Uniontown, Pa., which is ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Coral Springs elected leaders are considering a budget for the next fiscal year that includes a request for 16 new positions, including four traffic accident investigators. This comes as city police Chief Bradley McKeone recently posted an online message touting the drop in ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Developers of the massive MainStreet at Coconut Creek project are looking for approval for eight commercial buildings on the property. The city of Coconut Creek’s Planning and Zoning Board will review on Wednesday plans for constructing the buildings to house restaurants, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - During the new school year, drivers speeding through Coconut Creek school zones could start seeing fines mailed to them after they’ve been caught by a new speed-detection system. Last week, the city’s five-member commission unanimously passed a local law that will allow for ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Dumpling King, known for its North Miami Beach and Pembroke Pines locations, has opened a new restaurant in the Ramblewood Shopping Center, next to Wings Plus, in Coral Springs. This relaxed Chinese eatery operates with counter ordering, but the food is served at the table by ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Following a fatal crash involving a 6-year-old in May, Coral Springs has asked Broward County and state transportation officials to review the safety of the intersection where the crash took place. City officials said they have requested a review of the left turn signal ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – It’s an unsightly spot in a plaza serving many working-class residents in the Sample Road-Riverside Drive corridor in Coral Springs. There, outside a shuttered business on the western edge of Riverside Plaza is a flow of homeless people, often seen sleeping or sitting around ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Springs has two historic landmarks with Florida Heritage Site markers - the Coral Springs Historic Covered Bridge and the Museum of Coral Springs History building. In a city that just celebrated its 61st birthday, could there be more historic landmarks? That’s ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek leaders have approved a nearly six-figure contract to redo the city’s website, and defended their decision. “First off, I guess we're in a world now where over the past few years, we have multiple people that chime in through social media on contracts, on ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - The foundation creating a memorial to the students and staff lost in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting six years ago is looking for public input to choose the design. The Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation has narrowed the proposed designs down to three ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Step inside Cookiehead Bakery in Coral Springs, and you enter a place of delicious treats and captivating stories – a “magical experience,” which is the brainchild of bakery veteran Gary Schwartzberg. The sweet scent of cookies, nitro iced coffee, and milkshakes fills the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - The new owner of a major car dealership in Coconut Creek wants to expand, nearly quadrupling the size of its sales building and more than doubling its service garage. Last year, the Tampa Bay-based Morgan Auto Group bought the Al Hendrickson Toyota dealership at 5201 W.
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - The former Bru’s Room restaurant in Coral Springs, which shut its doors earlier this year, will be demolished. A spokeswoman for the city of Coral Springs confirmed that the building at Atlantic Crossings Shopping Center at 1000 University Drive is slated for ...