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Neighbors & Friends continued

They leased space in rental offices within a new structure us, the site is even more exciting than before. The
erected along the south side of the parking area. In 1978, waterway is busy, the prevailing breezes blow in exactly
with the restaurant building’s first tenant in place, 15th Street the right direction, and at night the moon rises across the
Fisheries was born. Ted oversaw the entire process of water in just the right place.”
redeveloping the marina property during these years. His With all the progress made and impressive property
vision for a new Lauderdale Marina was made real.
developments implemented over the past seven decades,
Bob Cox was quoted in a Fort Lauderdale News article in Lauderdale Marina still retains its original charming
October 1976 as saying, “When we opened, we thought nautical ambiance and continues to be maintained under
the waterway location at the end of our place was the the same dedicated family ownership. These are traits that
greatest spot in town for a restaurant. Fifteen years later, make the business a Fort Lauderdale institution and
when we rebuilt it with more modern buildings, we still familiar old neighbor to those who call Rio Vista home. RV
thought so; and now that the area has grown up around

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