Pompano Beach in November 2026: The Month Ahead, from the Pier to The Pomp

The simplest way to see what is happening in Pompano right now is the calendar: the city now runs events through the whole year, not just seasonally. November 2026 has a sold-out show at The Amp, a drone show over the ocean, the return of the Green Market, and the lead-up to the holiday season. Behind those dates, the build keeps delivering in pieces, from apartments leasing at The Pomp to an oceanfront tower topping out. Here is the run of both, dated and sourced.

The November event board

November 1: BOYNEXTDOOR at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater, 1801 NE 6th Street. The city lists the show as sold out, and the Pompano Beach Arts Foundation says it sold out in less than three days, which makes it the fastest sell of the venue's fall. AXS lists doors at 6:30 PM with the show running 7:30 to 9:30 PM; confirm the time on AXS before heading over.

November 6: Old Town Untapped, the free monthly block party with food trucks, craft beer, and live music, returns 6:00 to 10:00 PM on NE 1st Street in Old Town, with November's headliner the Shane Duncan Band and docent-led art tours at Bailey Contemporary Arts across the street.

November 6 through 15: the Pompano Players' production of Gutenberg! The Musical! runs at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, part of the 2026-2027 live theater season.

November 7: the Drone Show Extravaganza flies for its fifth year, a free, family-friendly show of roughly 500 drones over the ocean just south of the Fisher Family Pier, part of the city's Veterans Day weekend lineup.

November 14: the Green Market season opens at the Cultural Center, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, then runs the second and fourth Saturdays through April, with free lawn yoga at 9:00 AM and kids' crafts through the morning.

November 20: Hot Brass: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago plays the Cultural Center, part of the same 2026-2027 season.

A wooden fishing pier stretching over a calm turquoise Atlantic in late-afternoon light, palm trees along the oceanfront — November on the beachfront Editorial view, not a specific project

And the December anchors are already on the books: the city's holiday tree lighting comes with the Old Town Untapped Holiday Edition on Friday, December 4, and the 64th Annual Greater Pompano Beach Chamber Holiday Boat Parade is tentatively scheduled for Friday, December 11, 6:30 to 9:00 PM, beginning near Lake Santa Barbara. Both dates are as currently published; confirm them as they get closer.

The build: what is landing right now

The Pomp, the 223-acre Cordish-Caesars district on the site of the old harness track, is delivering in pieces rather than all at once. The apartment piece is the one that matters for the neighborhood's daily life: the 423-unit community on the site, now named Lumio Pompano Beach and formerly called Indigo LIVE!, was targeted for completion around July 2026 with leasing underway since early 2026, per the developer Atlantic Residential's project page. That is residents arriving, not a render.

The employment piece opened first: the first commercial phase of The Pomp, four industrial buildings totaling about 620,700 square feet from Rockpoint and Frampton, opened in May 2026 per TAPinto Pompano Beach. The for-sale piece is queued behind it: Millrose Properties, a Lennar affiliate, closed a $50 million land purchase in January 2026 to build 344 condos and 82 townhomes, and the developer's temporary sales-office application went before the Zoning Board of Appeals on October 15, 2026.

The pieces that changed shape are the ones to track without alarm: the Live! dining and entertainment district was scaled back in July 2026 to four buildings and about 170 parking spaces, with no opening date announced, and a proposed Costco at the northwest corner was rejected 4-3 by the Planning and Zoning Board in July, with Costco's lawsuit and the city's October 11 response still working through the courts. The full master plan remains roughly 4,000 residential units, about 1.3 million square feet of retail and entertainment, about 1.4 million square feet of office, and two hotels, built out in phases over years.

The beachfront is already open

The public side of the transformation is done and operating. The city's roughly $80 million beachfront package delivered the rebuilt 896-foot Fisher Family Pier, open daily with paid fishing packages; the six-acre Pompano Beach Fishing Village with its dining row, shops, Pier 6 Rooftop, and the dual-brand Tru by Hilton and Home2 Suites hotel; streetscape and dune work along A1A; and, since October 2, 2026, the free on-demand Fishing Village Shuttle that connects beach parking to the pier.

The private side is what is climbing now. The Waldorf Astoria Residences Pompano Beach at 1350 South Ocean Boulevard, a 28-story, 92-residence tower from Related Group and Merrimac Ventures with Hilton, topped out in spring 2026 and is slated for delivery in summer 2027. Two other branded towers, W Pompano Beach and Ritz-Carlton Residences, are part of the same oceanfront push reported through 2026.

The Amp, the roughly 3,000-seat outdoor amphitheater at 1801 NE 6th Street that reopened in 2022 under its tensile fabric canopy, is the reason the evening calendar now runs year-round rather than petering out after spring.

What the numbers say about the direction

The population and jobs numbers are the quiet part of the story. The U.S. Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate put Pompano Beach at about 117,200 residents as of July 1, 2025, up about 4.6 percent from the 2020 census count of roughly 112,000. On jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro added about 42,600 jobs over the year ending June 2025, and CareerSource Broward counted Broward County at about 929,300 jobs in August 2025, up 0.8 percent year over year with unemployment at 3.6 percent.

The sale-price picture stays a range, not a single number. Redfin reported a citywide median near $359,000 for the three months ending June 2026, down 2.9 percent year over year, while Momentum Realty put the August 2026 median near $400,000, up 0.3 percent year over year. The two sources use different methods and windows, and the difference is the honest picture. For Palm Aire in the 33069 ZIP, the range is wider still because the ZIP mixes older single-family homes and condo communities: Redfin reported a median near $235,000 in February 2026, and Momentum reported about $350,000 in September 2026. Medians move with the mix; the full labeled table is on the market report page. What nobody can honestly do is forecast where the next one lands.

What it adds up to

Put the three layers together and the shape is plain: the public investment (the pier, the village, the amphitheater) is finished and operating; the private investment (The Pomp, the oceanfront towers, the downtown plan) is delivering in dated, verifiable phases; and the calendar, the census, and the job counts all point the same direction, which is toward a city that stopped being a drive-through. None of that requires a price forecast, and none of it is hype. It is simply what is open, what is building, and what the records say.

For Palm Aire, all of it is minutes away: the unit at 2901 S Palm Aire Drive #610 is a remodeled, turnkey top-floor corner with golf course and lake views, about 10 minutes from the pier and about 20 minutes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, with the club's three 18s and the community's pools, courts, and trails on site.

The bottom line for November.

November in Pompano is the Drone Show over the pier, Old Town Untapped, the Green Market's return, a sold-out night at The Amp, and the first apartments at The Pomp filling with new neighbors. If you want to watch the month from the best seat in the area, the screened patio with the lake-and-golf view is available. Call or Text Ryan: 561-915-8590. Co-listed with Helen Katz, Coldwell Banker Realty.

Sources

Ryan Parker · Realtor, Coldwell Banker Realty

Sales Associate · SL3571861 · Florida. Co-listed with Helen Katz. 2026-10-28 · Event dates, times, and availability change, and development timelines and litigation shift; confirm current status with the city, the venues, or the project teams before acting on them.

Pompano Beach in November 2026: the month ahead, from the pier to The Pomp.