Pembroke Pines was born as a city in 1960. But it wasn’t until the early ‘90s that it became a boomtown. That’s when thousands of people displaced from Hurricane Andrew in South Miami-Dade began new ...

Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis, right, speaks during a meeting with Florida mayors and then-Sen. Bill Nelson at Southwest Focal Point Senior Center in Pembroke Pines in August 2016. It is hard ...