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Magistrate gives 56 days for permits or demolition at Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel; prospective buyer says sale imminent
Summary
The magistrate found the North Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel to be an unsafe structure and ordered the respondent to apply for rehabilitation or demolition permits within 56 days or face city-authorized demolition; a broker for a potential buyer said his client expects to close the sale next week and plans repairs.
The special magistrate hearing on April 16, 2026 included a prolonged unsafe-structure case for the North Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel (case BE25110158). The city described structural deterioration and multiple open violations and recommended a short compliance window; the magistrate ordered the respondent 56 days to either apply for permits to rehabilitate the building or obtain a demolition permit, and authorized the city to proceed with demolition if neither step is taken.
Inspector Searian Anescu presented photographs and inspection findings showing degraded wood, missing closures and other conditions the city said made the building "unsafe and…
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