On Saturday, March 15, The Richard J. Fox Foundation in conjunction with Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale, Inc. hosted this concert under the stars in recognition of prostate and pancreatic cancer awareness. BAN CANCER 2014, was held on Saturday March 15^th 2014 at Esplanade Park – Downtown Fort Lauderdale.  Featured bands included Community Property, Blue Fire Band, Sovereign State, Roberto Perera, Terry Wollman Band with Melanie Taylor and Greg Manning, Thom Sessa with Igy and  Wyld Fly. Net proceeds from this fundraising event will be made in memory of Richard Mancuso, Fort Lauderdale’s 2012 Citizen of the year to the following: Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale and Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Washington DC. Stay Social with us: Facebook | Instagram |​ Twitter | ​Website

Watch highlights here! Check out our Photo Albums

• EYE on South Florida Video HERE
• Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale Video by Media Labs HERE
• Randy Steel Photo Album
• Blacktie South Florida Facebook Photo Album

Thank you to our Sponsors and partners:

• Automobiles from sponsor JM LEXUS
• Featuring America’s Backyard Beer Garden
• Cash bars coordinated with the Dubiner and TMex Cantina.
• Food Trucks coordinated by BurgerBeast.com: The Empanada Truck | ​JOJI Yogurt | ​La Nostra Pizza | ​Nacho Business | ​Pescados Unidos

Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale and the Riverwalk Linear Park is a lush tropical oasis in the downtown center of an urban metropolis. Our mission is “to be the catalyst in building and nurturing Riverwalk as a vibrant community connected by the New River“. We take our mission seriously and strive to oversee the park, plan for the future, assure compliance and help create this amazing destination in our downtown.  We partner with many groups, including the City of Fort Lauderdale, Downtown Development Authority, Broward County and local area associations, businesses and organizations that are integral in the success of our downtown.

You voted and we came in 2nd Pace! Great for our first year. Thank you!

Membership is tremendously valuable to our organization.  Your continued support helps to further our mission year after year.  We are continuously striving to not only improve the Riverwalk and the downtown Fort Lauderdale district, but to bring added value to your membership.  In celebration of our 25^th Anniversary, Riverwalk is proud to announce its first Member Rewards Program.

Beginning in January, Riverwalk members can now enjoy dining, drinks, and shopping (coming soon) at some of your favorite downtown establishments and receive exclusive discounts. If your membership is expiring soon, we encourage you to RENEW today.  Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale is poised to have one of its best years yet and we want you to be a part of it!

Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale’s 3^rd Annual Stone Crab & Seafood Festival Presented by Grille 401 was held on Saturday, January 11, 2014 from 11am – 5pm at Esplanade Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale.  The festival was a celebration of the local South Florida Seafood Industry and highlights some of Fort Lauderdale’s favorite seafood restaurants as they served up fresh stone crab claws and an array of select seafood dishes.  Seafood lovers of all ages came out to enjoy a day of great food, drinks, live music and games (including the crowd-favorite hermit crab races).

Watch our video from our partner Eye on South Florida HERE>>  Check out our YOU TUBE Video HERE>>

Thank you to our participating restaurants Grille 401 | Downtowner | Hott Leggz | Mangos | Lauderdale Grill | Kelly’s Landing | Wild Sea | Shuck –N- Dive | Key West Seafood & Spice | Susie’s Scrumptious Sweets

Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale would like to thank the following sponsors – Grille 401 (Presenting Sponsor), New Times, Clear Channel, The Media Lab, and Eye on South Florida.  Riverwalk’s Beer Garden was sponsored by Stephens Distributing Company featuring Goose Island Brewery, Capital Brewery, Woodchuck Hard Cider and Shock Top Brewing Co.

Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale hosted its eighth Riverwalk Mutts and Martinis™, Fort Lauderdale’s largest outdoor pet-friendly cocktail hour. The goal of the event is to bring together the Downtown community and their favorite four-legged friends for a night of celebration and networking while raising funds for Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale. The event was held on the south side of the Riverwalk in front of the Historic Downtowner Saloon. Check HERE to see the video.

South Florida Day of the Dead Celebration Video

The fourth installment of the ever popular and very spirited festival of remembrance and revelry 11.2.13 in Downtown Fort Lauderdale was awe inspiring. With just 750 attendees in 2010, the event swelled to venue capacity of over 6700 participants in 2012.  Rooted in community, this event embraced a universe of ideas from a legion of talented skull inspired artists, mariachi musicians, painted performers and enthusiastic skeleton clad revelers.

List Ranks America’s Best Places to Live, Work, and Play

The City of Fort Lauderdale has been named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live by Livability.com, a national website that ranks quality of life amenities of America’s small and mid-sized cities. Fort Lauderdale ranked number 24 on the list nationwide and number 3 in the state.

To produce its inaugural list of Top 100 Best Places to Live, Livability.com partnered with Richard Florida’s Martin Prosperity Institute, the world’s leading think tank on the role of location, place, and city-regions in global economic prosperity. Together, a study was conducted of more than 1,700 U.S. cities and the factors that make them the best places to live, work and play. Researchers narrowed their field to cities with populations between 20,000 and 350,000 before collecting data from a wide range of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, Walkscore and GreatSchools.com.

The data collected for the ranking was weighted based on an exclusive survey conducted for Livability by Ipsos Public Affairs, a leading global market research firm. Respondents were asked about factors that make their communities better places to live, as well as the factors they would consider in selecting another city. Those factors were narrowed down to eight categories – economics, housing, amenities, infrastructure, demographics, social and civic capital, education and healthcare – that were used to determine each city’s LivScore. Fort Lauderdale ranked high for amenities, education, healthcare and infrastructure.

For more information on the Top 100 Best Places to Live, please visit www.livability.com/top-100-best-places-to-live.