Best of the decade: 19 new places that made Fort Lauderdale a better place to live

At the beginning of the decade, when Joshua Miller moved his creative “idea agency,” C&I Studios, from a space on Commercial Boulevard to a warehouse bordered by a rugged stretch of Northwest First Avenue and the FEC tracks, few people knew what or where FAT Village was. While some folks might have instinctively kept things locked up at night, Miller rolled his large garage door open to host free neighborhood barbecues, live music and movie nights. The monthly Art Walk that draws thousands of people to FAT Village and Flagler Village, lighting the fuse that created the MASS District, happened in no small part because of the funky-chic community-building instigated by C&I Studios. C-IStudios.com