Those occupants you'll see who are there like Starbucks, and it's already open, so they're not fully completed, but go ahead and let's support those businesses that are there.

And here's just some of the vendors that will be at the retail portion of it, Flanagans, which is like your everyday barbecue spot where you can go watch games.

The Boy Scouts will probably enjoy that, right?

So thank you all for being here tonight.

And um, we have ATT Starbucks and some other mom and pop establishments, and that's what I like to see.

And at Town Center, right across from City Hall, block two, related group, which is one of the nation's premier developers, took an interest in Myanmar, and we sold that block two, which is the final block for Town Center to be developed.

And this establishment that you'll hear about in a minute is located right across from City Hall, and it will offer some of the most luxurious housing accommodations for anyone.

And the great thing about that is that they partnered with us to address some affordable housing challenges we're we're facing, and you'll hear about that in a minute.

Now, in terms of development, we have really grown in the city of Myanmar as it relates to hotels.

I know sometimes in our city we just think about our immediate family and our homes and what we can benefit from, but we now have nearly 1100 hotel rooms in the city of Myanmar.

So we're not able not just only able to service the community and our local businesses, but we are a player in the region.

And we worked, we work with the convention and visitors bureau of Broward County, also known as Sunny.org, to attract individuals to our community to lodge in our hotels.

When there's a major event, our sporting event or entertainment event in Hard Rock, those visitors stay in Myanmar.

They don't even go to the much more expensive guitar hotel on State Road 7, they stay here in Myanmar.

Why is that important?

Well, our same small businesses, our restaurants, and other establishments, they get an uptick in business when these events take place, and we don't necessarily think about that.

Now, the city of Myanmar doesn't necessarily collect on bed tax when lodgers stay at these hotels.

However, when a city has 1,100 keys or hotel rooms in their city, we now can leverage our ability to network and compel Broward County to invest in the city of Myanmar because of the millions of dollars in taxes that is generated right here from our city.

And I will say and will commend Broward County for partnering with the city.

We've been the recipient of many grants as it relates to cultural arts and entertainment because of the number of hotels that we have.

And we are standing right here, as you can see on the screen, at the brand new Suncoast Credit Union, which is the third largest credit union in the state.

They were in Huntington, they decided to come here when they could have gone anywhere else.

Their headquarters is literally in the Space Coast, which is in Melbourne County.

But they invested here in Broward County and more specifically in our city.

And I know a lot of our talk has been in central Myanmar, but the activity is very hot in historic Myanmar.

The original home, our bedrock community, East Myanmar.

That is where it started, 1955.

There are significant developments and changes that are taking place in the city of Myanmar, and we're happy to see that there are many commercial rehabilitation projects that are taking place to expand and improve the shopping or the business experience for our residents in historic Myanmar.

Now, at this time, we had a very candid conversation with some of our businesses in the community, large and small, to talk about why they decided to expand in Myanmar, what they like about Myanmar, what we can do better as a community and as a city.

So take a look at the video.

Hi, I'm Leah Carpenter.

I'm the executive vice president and chief operating officer for the Memorial Healthcare System.

We have been here since 2005.

We continue to grow and expand.

We did just open up our primary care facility here.

It's an awesome place for you to receive your care.

And I think that we will be here long well after I'm retired and certainly well into the future.

I'm Rebecca Bayham.

I'm the chief financial officer of HCW Biologics.

We are a company created to make treatments for age-related diseases.

So as HCW Biologics, we have a company joke that it stands for Heaven can wait.

So it's ideal that we're located in a place where people have easy access to us from both Fort Lauderdale and Miami Airport.

And we know that small business is the backbone of America, and especially South Florida.

If a city does not help to coach or mentor a business, how do you expect that business to go on to the next level?

And that's one beautiful thing that the city of Miramar offers.

All right, everyone, we're gonna get started.

We have a quorum.

Good evening.

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The meeting of the Miramar City Commission workshop is now called to order.

The purpose of this meeting is discussion on the following senior advisory board and construction advisory board.

This meeting is open to the public at this time, Madam Clerk, please call the role.

Um this workshop we have two workshops scheduled for this evening.

That particular um senior advisory council is a critical link between the area agency and the senior community.

This advisory council advocates for seniors and older American Act programs.

Eligibility criteria for being a member of the South Central Southeast Advisory Council.

It's 12 members.

They're elected by their peers, and they must be over the age of 60 years old.

The first task was to survey local cities and communities to determine which ones actually had a senior advisory council.

And what we found was that Pembroke Pines, City of Deerfield Beach, and the City of Margate have senior center advisory council are similar to the one that we have over at the senior center.