Plantation, Florida For other uses of Plantation, Florida, see Plantation, Florida .
Plantation, Florida City of Plantation Plantation Historical Museum Plantation Historical Museum Official seal of Plantation, Florida Plantation is a town/city in Broward County, Florida, United States.
The city's name comes from the before owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company. Plantation suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005.
The high school in There's Something About Mary is actually Plantation City Hall, positioned at 400 NW 73rd Avenue and NW 5th Street. Rolling Hills Golf Course, recently retitled Grande Oaks, was the site of the famous Caddyshack pool scene. Plantation is positioned at 26 7 28 N 80 14 58 W (26.124354, 80.249503). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.80 square miles (59 km2), of which 21.74 square miles (56 km2) is territory and 0.19 square miles (0 km2) (0.87%) is water.
Plantation is positioned in central Broward County.
DHL's World Headquarters for the Americas is positioned in Plantation.
The Esperanto language institute command posts are positioned in Plantation.
Avianca operates a Fort Lauderdale-area revenue office at 262 South University Drive in Plantation. Goodwin Biotechnology is headquartered in Plantation.
The town/city of Plantation is also home to many great mental community professionals, life coaches and Psychologists Plantation was home to two malls, situated athwart the street from one another: the Westfield Broward Mall (south of Broward Boulevard), and the Fashion Mall (north of Broward Boulevard).
The vacant former mall was in line to be put up for auction in 2010, but the auction was cancelled after the property owner paid a court judgement. The estimated $350 million universal is a primary part of Plantation Midtown, an 850-acre (3.4 km2) urban center that is expected to help turn Plantation into a county-wide destination.
Plantation has embraced mixed-use in its master plan for the Midtown area.
2010 Enumeration Plantation Broward County Florida Plantation is served by Broward County Public Schools.
Plantation High school South Plantation High School Plantation middle schools Bair Middle School (serves parts of Plantation) Plantation Middle School Plantation Elementary School Plantation Park Elementary School Sawgrass Elementary School (serves parts of Plantation) Plantation is part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth biggest radio market and the seventeenth biggest tv market in the United States.
Plantation also prints a quarterly news magazine, the Plantation Quarterly. Peters purchases 10,000 acres (40 km2) for $25 per acre; territory had been owned by the Everglades Plantation Company (origin of the city's name); Broward Boulevard is a two-lane road.
1949 Plantation Women's Club founded; Plantation Homeowners organization established by Dr.
1950 Population reaches 200; Plantation Golf Club built.
Gage appointed first Mayor on April 30; Plantation incorporated as a city; first City Council meeting on May 11; Broward Boulevard grows to a four-lane street; populace reaches 475.
On Sunrise Blvd; City of Plantation Volunteer Fire Dept.
1961 The Plantation Library is established with Mrs.
1969 Motorola opens facility in Plantation.
1973 Plantation City Hall opens and Deicke Auditorium dedicated.
1974 Plantation Historical Society established by Genevieve Veltri, Dorothy O'Hare, Lois Brickhouse, and Marilyn King.
1975 Frank Veltri propel Mayor for first time; American Express moves Southern Region Operations Center to Plantation.
1980 The Plantation Historical Museum is founded; populace 48,653.
1981 Plantation Library is retitled the Helen B.
Hoffman Plantation Library.
1982 The populace reaches 50,000; town/city budget reaches $12 million.
1985 Plantation Historical Museum built.
1988 Fountains Shopping Mall opens (450,000 sq ft); Fashion Mall at Plantation opens (660,000 sq ft).
1990 The populace reaches 65,000; town/city budget reaches $64 million; Central Park Elementary School opens.
1993 Kemper National Services opens operations in Plantation.
1996 Olympic Torch Run weaves through Plantation.
1999 Rae Carole Armstrong propel as Mayor of Plantation; 11,500-square-foot (1,070 m2) Volunteer Park Community Center dedicated.
2000 Population 84,500 and 55 diverse cultures; Presidential election delayed; Plantation Elementary moves to new school site; ground broken for Jim Ward Community Center.
2005 Hurricane Wilma hits Plantation on Monday, October 24, 2005 causing momentous damage.
2008 Plantation titled one of the nation's 100 Best Communities for Young People by America's Promise Alliance. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Florida rules on the auction sale of the Plantation Fashion Mall.
"History Misspells Itself In Plantation Seal's Latin Motto".
"Out of the Wilderness, This City: Plantation's History".
City of Plantation.
"Plantation Psychotherapist Counseling Relationships Life Coach".
"Psychologist Plantation Teen, Family, Marriage Counseling Testing".
"Plantation's Fashion Mall set for auction".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"MLA Data Center Results for Plantation, FL".
City of Plantation official website
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