Common Room brings dinner to Harrison Street
Common Room is serving near Young Circle, and downtown parking just got tighter for three weeks.
Common Room opened near Young Circle at 2032 Harrison Street, and it is built for dinner. The restaurant comes from BOL Hospitality Group and runs about 2,000 square feet. The menu is modern American in the comfort-food sense: lobster rolls, pastas, fried chicken, burgers, a prime rib French dip and branzino. Axios reported the opening on July 20. Hours are 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. That is a dinner-only room, and Monday and Tuesday are not on the posted list. Plan around it if you are walking over from the circle on a weekend night.
Fire stations are collecting supplies for Colombia
Hollywood Fire Rescue is gathering supplies for people hit by the earthquake in Colombia. The city announced the drive on August 12. It is accepting donations of essential supplies, dropped off daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at participating fire stations. That window is wide enough to go before work or after dinner without rearranging your day. This is the kind of errand that is easy to mean to do and then forget, so set the bag by the door tonight. Check which stations are participating before you drive over.
One page tracks every closure in town
The city keeps a single page for traffic headaches, and it posted a notice about it on August 11. The page tracks traffic impacts, roadway detours, lane closures and railroad crossing closures across Hollywood. That last category is the one that catches people. A closed crossing can turn a five-minute errand into a long loop through the neighborhood. The city asks residents to check the page regularly, which is easier said than done. Bookmark it now instead of looking it up while stopped behind a line of cones. Check it before school runs or anything with a hard start time.
The Radius Garage is closed to the public until September
If you park at the Radius Garage, your routine already changed. The city closed it to the public on Monday, August 17, for scheduled pressure washing and maintenance. It stays closed through Saturday, September 5, and public access returns Sunday, September 6. Residents and authorized access-card holders can still get in. Everyone else needs another plan. The city points drivers to Polk Lot 2, the Taylor Lot, or legal on-street parking. That is three weeks without one of downtown's parking options. Give yourself a few extra minutes before dinner or a show.
Scammers are emailing people with permits in progress
The city's planning page is carrying an FBI fraud alert, and this scam is a convincing one. People are posing as Hollywood and Broward County planning and zoning officials. Their emails cite real permit details, zoning application numbers or property addresses, then demand payment by wire transfer, peer-to-peer app or cryptocurrency. The city says it does not take planning or zoning payments any of those ways. All of it runs through Accela. If you get a request like that, contact your assigned planner or call Planning and Urban Design at 954-921-3471, option 2. Anyone with an open application should read that twice.
The city is asking what downtown should become
The city posted a call for resident feedback, and the responses are anonymous. It asks what businesses, experiences and amenities people want to see in Downtown Hollywood. The city says that input will help shape the future of downtown and guide what the community gets there. If you have opinions about downtown, and most people here do, this is a short way to put them on the record. It costs minutes instead of an evening. Anonymous also means you can be honest about the block you have quietly stopped walking down.