Comment on Holiday Park just the spot for new YMCA and urgent care center ‘on steroids,’ Fort Lauderdale says

FORT LAUDERDALE — Outraged condo residents said no way to a 24-hour emergency medical center in their Galt Ocean Mile neighborhood. The proposal, presented by Commissioner John Herbst, died a quick death after an angry crowd of seniors blasted the city — and Broward Health — for even suggesting they be subjected to what they feared could have turned into a nightmare of traffic jams and round-the-clock sirens. But Fort Lauderdale has since found a new spot for what Broward Health CEO Shane Strum is calling an urgent care center on steroids: Holiday Park. Broward Health is partnering with a new tenant at the park that has yet to break ground, the YMCA. In late 2016, the YMCA worked out a deal with the city to lease land at Holiday Park for 50 years at the price of $1 a year.