Downtown resident Jayme Callahan, 40, embraces her twin girls, Journey and Jayme, along the Fort Lauderdale Boardwalk on Thursday, April 24, 2025. There has been a dramatic increase in downtown ...

A construction crane hovers over downtown Fort Lauderdale on April 30. Experts predict we’ll see less cranes downtown as the market slows amid the nationwide economic downturn. (Amy Beth Bennett ...

UPDATED: May 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM EDT Downtown Fort Lauderdale is growing up and up and up — literally. A construction boom that began a decade ago has dramatically changed the city’s skyline.