Development would include a new city hall, fire station,, rental apartments, office, retail and hotel.

Development is catching up with Dania Beach, a once-sleepy city between Fort Lauderdale to the north and Miami to the south. Antique shops and mom-and-pop restaurants have been joined in recent years by a new casino and the under-construction $800M mixed-use project Dania Pointe. Coming soon: a total redevelopment of the city center. 

Dania Beach, Broward’s oldest city, is seeing new life as a South Florida attraction — envisioning a sweeping downtown makeover project that could bring hundreds of new apartments next to many planned new stores, parks and work spaces.

The offering provides “an open canvas to developers for a multi-year phased development plan with a goal to jumpstart and stimulate redevelopment in the city’s Urban Core,” the city states.