FORT LAUDERDALE – As Spring Split 2024 winds down, Tanner Filion headed straight from Athens Tech in Georgia to Fort Lauderdale Seaside.
“The fuel was less costly and I hadn’t witnessed a mate in a though,” he said
Filion is section of the purpose Fort Lauderdale town leaders are taking a victory lap.
CBS News Miami talked to Vice Mayor Steve Glassman as ground was broken on a new pickleball courtroom Thursday.
“It really is been an exceptional experience and an financial boom for all the companies along the beach,” he said.
An financial boom and pretty serene. “We experienced 24 arrests and 4 were being spring breakers,” explained Law enforcement Main Bill Schultz.
Schultz mentioned they doubled law enforcement staffing during spring crack. Which is extra price but he states it was budgeted.
“We definitely experienced more folks, even men and women from Brazil,” he mentioned.
Mainly because of the economic acquire and small disruption city leaders say they would welcome spring breakers again in 2025.