Immerse yourself in colorful creations at Fort Lauderdale’s Thrive Art District

You know what they say: art imitates life. In Fort Lauderdale, life is looking fabulous with a new art district. It’s colorful, cool and has enough creative energy to help the 954 thrive.

Forget coloring inside the lines because anything goes at Thrive Art District, and they’re ready for their close-up.

Jonathan Fish: “We really have a lot of small different nooks and areas where people can kind of walk around and be immersed in art. We identified this area as an opportunity for the city and we started buying real estate here quietly.”

With three blocks of creative space, they’re spreading the news.

Jonathan Fish: “A big, big part of our tenants here is word of mouth of business owners that are here already and they’re excited. We have gyms, a brewery, so really, all of these tenants are adding to this amazing energy that we created in this district.”

Most of that energy comes from artists with over 60 murals around the area.

Jonathan Fish: “We give opportunities to new artists as well and local artists. We gave a street artist an opportunity to showcase his art in the form of a painting, and we gave an opportunity to the gallerist, to the guy who’s been painting in galleries, to put his piece a larger outside.”