Every day we pull Fort Lauderdale permits and map signal activity across all 31 Broward municipalities — surfacing assemblages, entitlements, and capital movement before they become news.
Curated by a journalist with 20+ years covering Florida. Broward first. The rest of the state next.
47 active signals · $361M in tracked development value
Interactive. Filter by category. Drill into any permit. 154,751 records · 31 Broward municipalities.
Open Interactive Signal MapCoordinated waterfront parcel acquisitions suggest institutional assemblage before any public listing. Three signals, one buyer pattern.
Read BriefThe south parcel crosses from planning to execution — first infrastructure permit filed after years of speculation. What it means for the basin.
Read BriefA multifamily project enters formal approvals on the Federal corridor — density signal, parking waivers, and what the surrounding three blocks already told us.
Read BriefDemolition permits at the Gore Building mark a pivotal step in the long-delayed government center redevelopment. We traced the filings, the contractor, and three adjacent parcels quietly assembled over 18 months.
Read the full dispatchBroward is one of the fastest-building counties in the Southeast — 2 million residents, 31 municipalities, and a pipeline that moves faster than the news cycle covering it.
Our average signal surfaces weeks before local news coverage. Demolition permits, tenant build-outs, and quiet parcel acquisitions don't make headlines — until they do. We read them first.
One weekly brief. Permit-level development intelligence for Fort Lauderdale and Broward — curated by a veteran journalist, delivered every Friday morning.
Since launch, Florida Signal has identified early development activity across Fort Lauderdale using permit-level intelligence — revealing patterns before they become visible in traditional coverage.
Each entry was surfaced through public records analysis, cross-referenced across LauderBuild, BCPA filings, and municipal permit systems, then verified by a journalist before publication.
Quiet land acquisition pattern across contiguous waterfront parcels — likely institutional buyer with long-term hold strategy.
Multifamily project moves into the formal approval pipeline — density, parking, and surrounding parcel activity all in motion.
Marks the shift from long-term planning into execution after years of speculation — and signals movement in surrounding basin parcels.
Tenant build-out permits surface ahead of public leasing announcements — early read on occupancy momentum in downtown towers.
Growing cluster of infill activity indicates coordinated development across adjacent parcels — a pattern worth watching.
Multi-site permitting patterns point to phased institutional expansion — infrastructure first, announcements later.
A key step in the redevelopment of the government center — long discussed and now physically in motion.
Ground-floor tenant signals at a prestige Las Olas address, surfaced through build-out permits weeks ahead of leasing announcements.
Full execution phase confirmed across a coordinated permit sequence — one of the larger storage footprints entering active build this cycle.
Maintenance and envelope-work cycles signal sustained capital commitment to older oceanfront buildings along the strip.
Movement from site-plan approvals to unit-level construction permits — a measurable step forward in a long-watched corridor.
High-end residential redevelopment — demolition through new-construction permits filed against a single waterfront parcel.
Every brief is built from three intersecting data streams, verified against public records, and filtered through the skepticism of a working journalist.
Building, demolition, tenant build-out, and infrastructure filings pulled daily from LauderBuild, BCPA, and municipal systems across Broward.
Parcel ownership, assemblage patterns, rezoning filings, and entitlement motion — cross-referenced against the permit feed to find coordinated activity.
Permit valuations, contractor filings, and project sequencing — used to estimate tracked value and identify which signals are backed by real capital commitment.
Public records alone prove nothing. Scores are never inflated. The intelligence value is in what hasn't happened yet — not what's already underway.
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