Traffic Alert for Tuesday April 10th in Hollywood & Hallandale Beach area - President Obama will be at The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa at 3 pm

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:00 PM

Obama Victory Fund 2012 - Dinner with President Barack Obama at The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa 

3555 South Ocean Drive, Hollywood, FL 33019

Above, looking north on the Intracoastal Waterway from next to the Hallandale Beach Walmart. Tallest buildings are, left-to-right/north-to-south, on the east side of State Road A1A: Trump Hollywood,  The Ocean Palms, Diplomat Oceanfront Residences and The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa. April 8, 2012 photo by South Beach Hoosier.

Trust me, you don't want to be stuck in one of the RK Plaza strip center parking lots on Hallandale Beach Blvd. because of Secret Service/FHP/HBPD & HPD traffic shutdown for the motorcade for Vice President Biden like I was last year, trapped over near the Post Office for about a half-hour after mailing something to the nieces up in Maryland.

I thought Biden was supposed to be in Coral Gables or Miami Beach, but no...

Of course, when you live in the Washington, D.C. area, and don't have nearly the same gawker effect on pedestrians or drivers,  the motorcades seem to move a lot faster, esp. the ones at night leaving The White House up 17th Street, N.W. or from the State Department.

It took long enough, but The European Club developement in Hallandale Beach has officially gone down the drain; #hallandalebeach

Like most residents of Hallandale Beach and environs over the past few years, especially thosewho were heading towards the beach or who live along State Road A1A, I've been wondering  
for a very long time when this was going to be official over at the festering eyesore at 2101 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. 
Now!

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South Florida Business Journal

May 12, 2009

Foreclosure looms for European Club

by Brian Bandell

M.A.M.C., once one of South Florida’s largest hard-money lenders, has filed a foreclosure action against the planned European Club, a mixed-use project in Halladale Beach.

See rest of story at:

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2009/05/11/daily30.html

Below, some recent photos of The European Club property that I shot on April 15th and 28th.

Looking northeast from in front of The European Club, The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa and Trump Hollywood in the background, in Hollywood, quite rightly mock The European Club's puniness and lack of growth!

"You call yourself a 29-story tower? Why you are nothing but a garbage-strewn eyesore of a lot with a garbage dumpster that hasn't been dumped since last year. And your fence advertising your project has been falling down since last year.

Where is your pride?"

Yes, that interior monologue is what was always in my brain every time I've walked, ridden or driven by this spot over the past few years, which was formerly a bank, whose parking lot was perhaps most noteworthy for being a popular dumping ground for shopping carts from stores all over Hallandale Beach Blvd.

In case you're curious to see what it was once promised to be, this property is described on page 7 of the city's Current Development Activity in the City of Hallandale Beach list, last updated in July 2008:

http://www.hallandalebeachfl.gov/DocumentView.asp?DID=727

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All photos below by South Beach Hoosier

April 15, 2009

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April 28th, 2009