FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- On Fifth Avenue in the rapidly changing Flagler Village, a humble house surrounded by a forest of tropical trees looks like it’s about to be swallowed by a five-story wall of pale gray concrete.
Julliano Jeyamo, the feisty owner of a tiny home now dwarfed by the mammoth high-rise that’s sprouted next door, says he’s been battling the project’s big shot developer for two years — and losing.
It’s a classic David and Goliath tale unfolding on a once sleepy street in Flagler Village, an up-and-coming neighborhood in downtown Fort Lauderdale fast being overtaken by high-rise apartments, where zoning changes have created a collision of old Fort Lauderdale and the flashy future.
