In the 21st century, it has come of age as a booming, revitalized business and vacation magnet, one of the fastest-growing in America in fact, Fort Lauderdale and other Broward communities, already largely awash in suburban tracts and strip-mall sprawl, continue to grow so fast that parts of them are threatening to turn into 'condo canyons' to match its increasingly high-rise downtown.
Since the 1990s, though, spring-break madness has largely become a thing of the past in Fort Lauderdale and popular surrounding parts of Broward County, as changing tastes and municipal and business efforts both expanded and raised the level of offerings.
