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Pompano Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic
Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The
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Nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms
part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of 2004,
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the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 88,874, [1], however, due to a
recent annexation of neighboring Pompano Beach Highlands and Collier Manor-Cresthaven, the
population
of the city has surpassed
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100,000. Pompano Beach is currently in the middle of a
redevelopment process of its neglected
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beachfront which promises to reinvent the city.
The city has also been listed as one of the top real estate markets being featured in CNN,
Money and the Wall Street Journal as one
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of the country's top vacation home markets.
Pompano Beach was settled about 1900, and incorporated
as a town in 1908. Its name is derived from the Florida
pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast. Pompano Beach
significant experienced growth during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. In 1950, the
population of the city reached 5,682. Like most of
real estate home values
southeast Florida, Pompano Beach
experienced great growth in the late 20th century as many people moved there from northern
parts of the United States. A substantial seasonal population
also spends its winters in the area. In 2004, John Rayson was
elected as the first official mayor of Pompano. In recent years, an effort to rejuvenate
rundown areas near the city's beach have gained momentum.