NW 4 Avenue closes overnight for sewer manhole repairs
A sewer repair closes NW 4 Avenue overnight, a downtown City Hall site plan is in review, CRA parcels are on the agenda, and two food openings are moving.
NW 4 Avenue closes overnight for sewer manhole repairs
The city notice lists a full closure from 9 p.m. May 28 to 5 a.m. May 29.
The city has posted a full overnight closure on NW 4 Avenue while crews repair a sewer manhole. According to the public notice, Pompano Beach and Maxx Environmental are performing maintenance repairs on NW 4 Avenue between NW 3 Street and NW 4 Street from Thursday, May 28 at 9 p.m. to Friday, May 29 at 5 a.m.
The closure is narrow but total: NW 4 Avenue is closed during the scheduled work hours so crews can safely complete the repair. The city says Maintenance of Traffic measures will guide drivers and pedestrians, and it is encouraging motorists to avoid NW 4 Avenue during the work window and use alternate routes.
There is also a second utility note on the same page for the southeast side of town. Pompano Beach lists stormwater construction along SE 4th Court, between SE 1st Terrace and SE 2nd Avenue, from May 26 through May 28. That project requires temporary lane closures, and the city warns drivers to use caution and expect possible delays through the work zone.
A downtown City Hall site plan is in front of Planning and Zoning
The May 27 agenda listed LN-874 Downtown Pompano City Hall as a major site plan.
A downtown City Hall plan is moving through the public review pipeline. The May 27 Planning and Zoning Board agenda listed LN-874 Downtown Pompano City Hall as a Major Site Plan at the northwest corner of North Dixie Highway and West Atlantic Boulevard.
The owners listed are the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and the City of Pompano Beach. The agenda identifies the land use designation as DPTOC, Downtown Pompano Transit Oriented Corridor, and the zoning district as TO-DPOD, Transit Oriented Downtown Pompano Beach Overlay District.
The same agenda also listed two other major site plans: Festival South on NW 33 Street and a Shell Building at 2100 W. Atlantic Blvd. This is agenda-stage language, not a final approval notice, so the clean read is that these projects were up for board consideration. Residents tracking the next steps can use the city meetings page for upcoming agendas.
CRA agenda puts housing parcels, a beachfront grant and security contracts in one frame
The May 19 agenda listed affordable-housing parcels, a $150,000 grant item and two FPI Security agreements.
The Community Redevelopment Agency's May 19 agenda bundled several items that touch housing, storefront improvements and district services.
The housing item came from the Office of Housing and Urban Improvement, which asked the CRA to convey three CRA-owned parcels to the city for affordable housing. The parcels are listed at 801 NW 18th Ave., 801 NW 18th Ave. rear and 785 NW 18th Ave. Staff wrote that OHUI built and sold four income-restricted single-family homes directly north of the CRA lots in 2025 and has no remaining vacant lots to build new homes for income-restricted buyers. The agenda also says three unsolicited proposals came in after a notice of intent to dispose of the property.
The same agenda listed a Strategic Investment Program grant agreement with LFT IRREV TR tied to 110 North Ocean Boulevard. The fiscal impact is listed at $150,000, and the improvements are connected to 116, 118 and 120 N Ocean Blvd. Two security items were also on the agenda: unarmed roving security guard agreements with FPI Security Services for the Northwest CRA District at $353,808 and the East CRA District at $157,248. The agenda lists the items for consideration; it does not, by itself, record final passage.
A new 'Lead with Love' mural is up at Kelly's Chemicals
The Cey Adams mural is the fifth piece in a nine-mural Broward collaboration.
Pompano has a new public-art marker downtown. The Community Foundation of Broward and Business for the Arts Broward debuted a "Lead with Love" mural by artist Cey Adams at Kelly's Chemicals, 135 NE 1st Ave.
The item, posted by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance on May 26 and dated Pompano Beach on May 21, says this is the fifth mural in a nine-mural collaboration between the Community Foundation, Business for the Arts Broward and Adams. The project runs from fall 2024 to 2027 and is built around love-themed murals meant to create landmarks across Broward communities.
The city hosted a dedication and ribbon-cutting for the Pompano mural on May 1. The broader series already includes murals in Fort Lauderdale, Plantation and Dania Beach, which makes the Kelly's Chemicals wall part of a countywide public-art trail rather than a one-off building treatment.
Two food openings are in motion, but neither is open yet
Don Pan has permit filings; NY Pizza Place is targeting late June or early July.
Two restaurant names are worth putting on the local radar, with different levels of certainty.
Don Pan, a Venezuelan bakery and restaurant, filed DBPR permit applications under Powerline Bread LLC for 1000 S. Powerline Road, Suite 3A, according to What Now Miami's April 29 report. The report describes Don Pan as a restaurant with Venezuelan cuisine and bakery items, including breads, pastries, hot dishes, sandwiches, arepas and empanadas. No opening date has been announced, so this is a permit-stage opening to watch, not a dinner plan.
NY Pizza Place is farther along in the public details. Business Debut reported April 3 that the company is expanding with a fifth location at 330 S Federal Hwy, targeting late June or early July, according to owner Elyshia Allen. The report says the Pompano restaurant will be one of the company's first standalone buildings, with a covered patio, landscaping, a mural, about 12 bar-style seats inside and about 24 patio seats. The company's own locations page also lists Deerfield Beach and Pompano Beach as opening soon.
June's arts calendar has two strong anchors
Remember the Times runs June 12-13, and Soulful Sundays resumes June 14.
Pompano Beach Arts has two June dates that are better handled early than last-minute. Remember the Times runs June 12 and 13 at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, with 7 p.m. showtimes both Friday and Saturday and tickets listed at $39 and up.
The show is built as a tribute to Black American sitcoms from the 1970s through the 2000s, including Good Times, The Jeffersons, A Different World and Living Single, and the listing says it blends live music, theater, dance, poetry and film.
Then Soulful Sundays returns to the Ali Cultural Arts Center on June 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. The June lineup lists The Larry Dogg Band, and the event page says tickets are $10, with limited tickets available online and no tickets sold at the door. The same page is explicit that there are no May performances and the series resumes in June.