Then we can move forward with how we’re going to get a new City Hall built.” Let’s just condemn the building, knock it down. “We’re going to have to demolish City Hall. “We could have access to this within 30 days,” Herbst said. He suggested moving to a temporary home at 1515 West Cypress Creek Road, where a mostly unoccupied three-story Kaplan University Learning Center was move-in ready with ample space. “We clearly can’t stay in the building and operate at $175,000 a day.” “We’d be better off moving to another building,” he added. Spending millions on a building that city leaders had already planned to replace “is out of the question,” the mayor said. “What a disaster,” Mayor Dean Trantalis said as soon as the video ended. If kept open, it would require mold mitigation throughout, a costly venture. Fort Lauderdale City Hall, shown on Wednesday, has been closed since a record-breaking storm dumped 26 inches of rain on the city on April 12.ĭuring Tuesday afternoon’s commission conference meeting, Chavarria played a short video showing the damage to the building.
