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Resident urges retail recruitment to CRA district and asks that hospital replacement be limited to three stories
Summary
A resident who identified himself as Dennis Conclin urged the CRA to pursue new retail (mentioning "ollies" and H Mart) for the Gateway/CRA district and asked that any replacement for Plantation General Hospital be limited to three stories.
Dennis Conclin, a resident who gave a street address, used the public-requests portion of the meeting to urge economic development in the CRA district and to press for design limits on a planned hospital site.
Conclin said retailers appear to be moving south in a roughly 20‑mile pattern and suggested recruiting discount or neighborhood retailers to the Gateway area. He described H Martas a large-format grocery operator, citing an example store described in the record as "183,000 square feet" and noting H Mart opened its first Florida store last September, and suggested a long-vacant bridal site as a potential location.
Conclin closed by asking the CRA to limit replacement construction at Plantation General Hospital to three stories: "When you demolish the Plantation General Hospital, please keep the limit of 3 stories high for replacement construction," he said.
The chair thanked Conclin for his remarks and there were no further public requests before the commission adjourned.
The transcript records the resident's name two ways; the speaker first self-identified as "Dennis Conflin" and later the chair addressed him as "Mr. Conklin." The article uses the spelling "Dennis Conklin" in the attribution to reflect the spelling used by the chair in the meeting record.
