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The new Fort Lauderdale City Hall would be a sexy landmark, curvy and futuristic — nothing like the boxy old gray bunker taken out by the flood of April 2023.

On Tuesday night, commissioners ranked four development teams vying to build the new City Hall. One activist referred to the competition as a beauty contest. In the end, the team with the most head-turning design snared the top ranking.

The rankings, from first to last: FTL City Hall Partners, Balfour Beatty, Fort Lauderdale Civic Partners and FTL Beacon Collaborative.

“I looked at all the designs and clearly the one that stands out is the FTL City Hall Partners,” Mayor Dean Trantalis said. “Let’s do something that’s going to last through the ages, something that we can be identified

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