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This photo from 1969 shows downtown Fort Lauderdale when Tripp Scott was founded.

Planning and Zoning Board, its Board of Adjustment and 2000 presidential election and 2002 Florida redistricting
the Downtown Development Authority. Norman Tripp matters. And it serves municipalities and businesses
personally played a critical role in spearheading the impacted by a wide range of public-policy issues.
citizen’s campaign to finance the award-winning Broward
County Main Library. The Next 50 Years
But like its founder back in 1969, Tripp Scott’s vision is
Members of the firm serve in educational posts, including not backward-looking or focused on what’s happening
on the Board of Governors of the State today, but firmly on Fort Lauderdale’s
University System of Florida and as future. And more than ever, its
trustees of various schools, and the attorneys stand ready to work side-by-
firm’s education practice has helped side with the community in achieving
ensure greater choice and performance the ambitious goals it has expressed for
in the educational system by the years to come.
representing charter school
organizations. The firm is committed to continuing to
put its commercial real estate, land use
More recently, a team of attorneys has and environmental law expertise – not
supported David Beckham and Inter to mention relationships with a wide
Miami’s vision “to build and operate a range of stakeholders – to work for
state-of-the-art soccer training facility, a parties seeking to make Fort
world class professional soccer stadium Lauderdale not just a commercial center
and a soccer-centric community but a pedestrian-friendly, multi-modal,
destination” in Broward. inviting and connected community.
Moreover, the firm has leveraged its expertise in The same teams will support the community and developers
government affairs and election law to protect the state’s in seeking to provide adaptive but also resilient
and Broward County’s reputations for transparent and infrastructure that is more structurally and environmentally
trustworthy government, with its leaders participating in the sustainable and able to stand up to the elements and blend

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