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Tripp Scott

Tripp Scott at 50: Still Thinking About

Fort Lauderdale’s Tomorrow

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'PSU -BVEFSEBMF T EFWFMPQNFOU 37$" commercial real estate practice evolved with the changing
local market to help everyone from billion-dollar
n 1969, the same year America landed on the moon
developers, buyers and sellers, and landlords and tenants
and the Beatles recorded Abbey Road, Norman Tripp
Iwas encouraging lawyers from across the nation to join respond to market forces and take advantage of alternative
financing sources, cool overbuilding and comply with a
him in a sleepy beach town of 140,000. He hoped they
would share his sense of the opportunity awaiting in South complex body of local, state and natural environment laws.
Florida and his vision for a new firm committed to grow In particular, the firm’s land use practice capitalized on
with – and help grow – the community. deep, ethical relationships with a full range of

It’s a vision that became a reality: over these 50 years, stakeholders to cooperate with state agencies, county and
municipal commissions and staff, advisory boards and
Fort Lauderdale has mushroomed into an international
center of commerce and a magnet for tourism while neighborhood associations – even as its environmental
teams assisted clients in navigating the maze of complex
remaining one of America’s most livable cities – in part
because Tripp Scott has lived out that promise to support laws governing environmental preservation on the local,
state and federal levels.
its clients and the community in every way possible. But

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