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• Regional Employers/ Staffing Agencies
• Youth Services
• FIU SBDC
• Prospera
• Community Fund of North Miami Dade (OLCDC)
• Miami Bayside Foundation
• SCORE
• South Florida Anchor Alliance
• Entrepreneurs
• Tech Industry
• Funders and Professional Networks
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1.1 SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES
• Diversity training and programs will be provided.
• Employers have access to new training programs that focus on
their needs.
• Allow small businesses and individuals to receive assistance
evaluating their business for adapting or pursuing ideas for
establishing a new business or reinventing a current business.
• Increase the availability of innovation skills for dislocated
workers with key elements of future job skills.
• Workforce training programs are aligned with business and
industry needs and are developed, funded, and provided
through close collaboration between businesses, educators, and
government.
• Out-of-state trained, certified, and licensed workers, including
skilled workers and professionals, move to the region,
augmenting an already large pool of well-trained workers.
• Training in the trades is consistent across the region.
• Provide innovative solutions and digital technologies that will
help resource constrained governments and regulators address
capacity challenges and improve regulatory capacity, service
delivery, and crisis management.
• Augment and enhance support services in the areas of job
training, childcare, success coaching, education, social services,
and assist with work-related needs to transition low income,
structurally unemployed individuals to living wage jobs and
career pathways.
• Advance equity by assisting resident entrepreneurs from lowwealth communities in launching sustainable businesses that
will generate and build generational and community-based
wealth.
• Advance equity by assisting resident entrepreneurs from lowwealth communities in launching sustainable businesses that
will generate and build generational and community-based
wealth
• Create new technologies, recruit new companies, generate
scaling of early stage and young startup companies that will
bring job creation.
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Focus Area 2: Create Vibrant and Connected Places to Increase the Overall
Quality of Life
2.1 ALIGNED PROJECTS
1. Flagler Village Complete Streets Improvements – Fort
Lauderdale DDA
2. Reimagining Huizenga Park – Fort Lauderdale DDA
3. Riverwalk Seawall Improvements – Fort Lauderdale DDA
4. Smart Cities Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labs – Levan
Center NSU
APPENDIX
Life
Focus Area 2: Create Vibrant and Connected Places to Increase the
Overall Quality of Life
2.1 PROJECT OUTCOMES
• The project will provide multimodal connectivity to the
Brightline Station to a future regional commuter rail system
with Downtown Fort Lauderdale and Flagler Village at the
geographic center.
• With a multi-generational appeal, the park will incorporate
core themes centered around art, resilience, and wellness.
Cities need engaging and activated parks and outdoor spaces
to support health and wellness, improve environmental
resiliency, and enhance social and creative connections.
• As sea levels rise, improving the seawall along the Riverwalk
Linear Park is essential to preserving a regional public space
of significance and notable cultural amenities.
• The project will localize smart cities technology currently
only available in California. The project will also create new
opportunities to develop and implement new programs (i.e.,
degrees, certifications, short-courses, seminars, workshops)
with the focus on AI smart cities planning leading to
company formation, recruitment of new companies, retaining
of skilled talent.
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2.1 POSSIBLE ACTION PARTNERS
• City of Fort Lauderdale
• Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Brightline
• Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale
• NSU Art Museum
• Broward College
• Florida Atlantic University
• Broward County
2.1 SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES
• Provide multimodal connectivity
• Create an interconnected system of transit and transportation
opportunities that are easily accessible to all residents.
• Increased working relationship with transportation agencies
and local governments
• Coordinate economic development efforts with regional
current and proposed infrastructure projects.
• Coordinate economic development efforts with regional