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Coral SpringsCity Guide
A 1963 master plan, 49 parks, and a downtown finally taking shape.
Coral Springs is a 23-square-mile planned suburb in northwest Broward County, about 20 miles from downtown Fort Lauderdale, bounded by Parkland to the north, Coconut Creek to the east, Tamarac to the south and, beyond the Sawgrass Expressway to the west, the Everglades. The Census Bureau's May 2026 estimate puts the population at 138,783. There are no springs: Coral Ridge Properties bought 3,869 acres of the Lyons family's bean-and-cattle land in December 1961, named the project after itself, chartered the city on July 10, 1963 and wrote the aesthetic codes, from paint colours to the McDonald's without golden arches, that still shape how the place looks. Residential build-out came in 2003, so most of the housing stock dates from the 1970s to the 1990s, with a median build year of 1988.
Is Coral Springs a good place to live?
For families who want strong Broward public schools, a park system that carries most of daily life and a house with a yard at a price below Parkland and Weston, yes. SafeWise ranked it the sixth-safest city in Florida in January 2026, up three places on the year, and FBI 2024 data puts total crime about 42% below the national rate. Median household income is $98,926 and 62.5% of homes are owner-occupied (ACS 2024). The trade-offs are structural: a citywide Walk Score of 38, no rail station, a longer run to Miami than any Broward city south of it, and a dining and nightlife scene that, until the last two years, meant driving to Boca Raton or Fort Lauderdale. Housing is mostly single-family homes in HOA subdivisions, with condos and townhomes clustered along University Drive and the older eastern edge.
Best neighbourhoods in Coral Springs
Where you land matters. The gated golf-era communities on the north and west edges hold the top of the market: Heron Bay, 3,025 homes that straddle the Parkland line, posted a $971,500 median sale over the 12 months to September 2026; Eagle Trace wraps a 1983 Arthur Hills course that hosted the Honda Classic; Wyndham Lakes runs 14 individually gated sections; and Whispering Woods is 192 custom homes on acre-plus lots. Kensington, Cypress Run, Ramblewood and Westchester (a $615,000 median over the same period) make up the non-gated family interior. Condos and townhomes around the Country Club and Ramblewood South traded at $362,500 and $375,000 medians, and the new Cornerstone block at Sample Road and University Drive is the city's first genuinely walkable address. Browse homes for sale in Coral Springs by neighbourhood to see the spread.
Coral Springs vs Parkland, Weston, Tamarac and Boca Raton
As of August 2026 the median sale price in Coral Springs was $600,500, against $955,000 in Parkland, $768,000 in Weston, $602,500 in Boca Raton and $315,000 in Tamarac. Parkland, directly north, is newer, almost entirely gated single-family and has no job base of its own. Weston is the other master-planned peer, incorporated in 1996 and more uniformly affluent. Tamarac, to the south, is older, condo-heavy and anchored by the Kings Point 55-plus community, and Coconut Creek's Promenade is where east-side residents shop when they don't want the mall. Boca Raton is the coastal comparison: a near-identical median, but with the beach, Mizner Park, a Brightline station and Palm Beach County taxes. Coral Springs' own pitch is the in-between: Boca-level prices for larger lots, in-city employers at the 442-acre Commerce Park and Broward Health Coral Springs, and a downtown that finally exists.
Does Coral Springs have a downtown?
Since 2023, yes. Cornerstone at Downtown Coral Springs, a roughly $250 million, seven-acre mixed-use block on the southwest corner of Sample Road and University Drive, holds 704 Modera apartments (the second building began move-ins in December 2025), with Tacocraft, Mitch's Downtown deli, Gary Rack's Farmhouse Kitchen, Paris Baguette and Maha Juice Bar open on the ground floor and Big Whiskey's plus the Coral Springs Museum of Art's new gallery due in fall 2026. The 140-room Hyatt Place in the plan remains unbuilt. Across the intersection, City Village, a 12-acre Amera project with about 300 rentals and 20,000-plus square feet of retail in its first phase, is targeting a late-2026 groundbreaking. The 136-acre downtown redevelopment district sunsets in 2032.
Check the school zone before you offer. Only a small slice of Coral Springs feeds Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, and the district's August 25, 2026 proposal would close Coral Springs Elementary and close or convert Forest Glen Middle for 2027–28, with the board vote due in December 2026.
Coral Springs is the Broward suburb that was drawn before it was built: a 1963 master plan, 49 parks, a downtown sixty years late and finally real, and a price that lands beside Boca Raton without the coast.
“Downtown Coral Springs is no longer a concept — it is a place. Imperfect, partially built, still a construction site in some respects, but undeniably, irreversibly real.”
— The Friendly Scoop, May 2026
Key Details
What makes Coral Springs special
What to Expect
A planned suburb of about 138,800 people on a grid of arterial roads, canals and HOA subdivisions, where daily life runs through 49 city parks, youth sports and school calendars more than restaurants. Median age is 40.2, a third of residents were born abroad, and 62.5% of homes are owner-occupied. The new Cornerstone block is the only place in the city with evening foot traffic; everywhere else you drive.
The Market
As of August 2026 the median sale price was $600,500 at $286 per square foot, down 1.6% year-over-year on price but up 4.5% per foot, with a median 60 days on market (down 30%). Over the 12 months to September 2026, medians ran $123,000 for one-bedroom condos, $190,000 for two-bedrooms, $507,500 for three-bedroom homes and $722,500 for four. Buyers have room to negotiate: 1,229 active listings against 18 August closings, 619 of them already price-cut, and a median list-to-sale ratio of 96.7%.
Cost of Ownership
The August 2026 median HOA fee on sold homes was $511 a month, skewed by condos; over the past year four-bedroom houses carried a $292.50 median fee and two-bedroom condos $570. The city held its millage at 6.0232 for FY2027, part of a 20.2856-mill total bill in FY2026 (county 5.6658, schools 6.4845), plus a $308.18 fire assessment and $434 solid-waste fee per single-family home, and the average homeowner pays about $106 more in assessments this year. Gross rental yield is 4.2%; the November 3, 2026 Amendment 3 vote on a larger homestead exemption would cut city revenue by a projected $14.6 million to $26.9 million a year if it passes.
Districts
North and west, off the Sawgrass Expressway: Heron Bay (3,025 homes across the Parkland line, its former golf course now green space, with a Life Time club planned on the old clubhouse site), Eagle Trace (903 homes around a 1983 Arthur Hills course), Wyndham Lakes' 14 gated sections and estate-lot Whispering Woods. The centre: Kensington's ten mostly ungated sections, Cypress Run's townhomes and villas around its golf course, Maplewood Isle's 756 homes and the Country Club condos. East and south: Ramblewood, Turtle Run and the University Drive corridor, where Cornerstone, The Walk and Coral Square sit.
Who It's For
Families buying for schools, parks and a yard at roughly two-thirds of Parkland's price; hockey and youth-sports households (the Florida Panthers' IceDen, the Sportsplex and a 50-metre Aquatic Complex sit within a mile of each other); and buyers who want an in-city job base rather than a pure bedroom community. It is a harder fit for anyone who wants to live car-free, for beach-first buyers (the coast is 20 to 30 minutes east), for retirees looking for 55-plus communities (Tamarac's Kings Point next door has far more), and for nightlife seekers, who still drive to Fort Lauderdale.
Getting Around
Car-dependent: Walk Score 38, Transit Score 30, Bike Score 45. The Sawgrass Expressway wraps the north and west edges and Florida's Turnpike runs just east of the city; in free-flowing traffic Boca Raton and FLL airport are about 30 minutes, downtown Fort Lauderdale 35, PBI 45 and Miami about 50, with rush hour adding substantially (the ACS mean commute is 29.9 minutes). No rail: the nearest Tri-Rail station is Pompano Beach at Sample Road and Military Trail, and the nearest Brightline is Boca Raton. Broward County Transit routes 2, 34, 42, 62, 83 and 88 cross the city, and the free Blue and Green community buses run seven days a week.
Schools
Broward County Public Schools: Coral Glades High (opened 2004; AP Capstone and Cambridge AICE) was one of 16 district schools recognised in U.S. News' 2026–27 rankings, J.P. Taravella High carried an A grade in 2025, and Coral Springs High and Coral Glades joined the new Space Florida Academy aerospace pathway in July 2026. Only a small section of the city is zoned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland (No. 84 in Florida, 2026–27). Coral Springs Charter (grades 6–12, about 1,700 students) occupies a converted 1977 mall downtown; the district's August 2026 proposal would close Coral Springs Elementary and close or convert Forest Glen Middle for 2027–28, with a vote due in December 2026. Private options include St. Andrew Catholic (PK–8) and North Broward Prep in Coconut Creek.
Storm Risk & Climate
Inland and west of the Turnpike, Coral Springs sits outside Broward's Plan A and Plan B evacuation areas, which cover mobile homes, low-lying tidal areas and everything east of the Intracoastal or US-1; Coral Glades High and Parkside Elementary are county shelters. Flooding is the real exposure: ClimateCheck's model puts about 84% of buildings at some flood risk, with a 28% average chance of a 10-inch flood over 30 years, and the city has levied a stormwater assessment since FY2020 because of its low elevation beside the Everglades. Heat risk is rated extreme. The 2026 season had produced five named storms and no hurricanes as of September 2.
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Where to Eat
Two years of openings have shifted the centre of gravity from Sample Road's strip plazas to the Cornerstone block downtown and the Sawgrass Center on Coral Ridge Drive. The old guard still holds the reservations.
Big Bear Brewing Company
The city's original brewpub, brewing on site since July 1997, with a scratch kitchen; locals go for the chicken pot pie and the American Kobe burger, and it sits first of 308 Coral Springs restaurants on Tripadvisor.
1800 N University DrRunyon's
Steakhouse open since 1984: prime rib, hand-cut steaks and French onion soup, with live piano in the bar Tuesday to Saturday. Dinner only, from 3 pm.
9810 W Sample RdThe Cook and the Cork
Chef-owned sharing-plates room with a Wine Spectator award ten years running, Korean-style spare ribs and a patio herb garden; its chef dinners fund Culinary Institute of America scholarships.
9890 W Sample RdGary Rack's Farmhouse Kitchen
Opened June 2026 as Cornerstone's anchor: steaks, burgers and ribs under Ruben Ubiera murals, weekend brunch with a DJ on Sundays.
3314 N University DrEddie & Vinny's Coastal Italian
Successor to Tavolino Della Notte from the same owners, known for a Sunday brunch buffet with a raw bar and carving station and half-price bottles on Mondays.
10181 W Sample RdThe Knife Argentinean Steakhouse
Opened February 2026 inside Coral Square as the mall's first full-service restaurant: parrilla grilling, 15-plus cuts, all-you-can-eat or a la carte, two private rooms.
9469 W Atlantic BlvdAngela's Bar & Kitchen
Upstairs from the Flora family's Italian import showroom, so the burrata, prosciutto and short-rib ravioli come straight off the family's own container loads.
12329 W Sample RdJalsa Indian Kitchen
Full-service Northern Indian that replaced the owner's vegetarian Honest in early 2026; truffle cheese naan, lamb chops and malai kofta.
2238 N University DrPummarola Pizzeria Napoletana
Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza from a Naples family brand founded in 1968, opened August 2026 in the Sawgrass Center with fresh pasta alongside.
6240 Coral Ridge DrEmber & Vine
Opened August 2026 from the Eddie & Vinny's owners: a global menu from Italian to Indian, wine flights, specialty coffee and breakfast from 8 am; short ribs are the signature.
5920 Coral Ridge DrCoffee and Bakeries
Independent cafés are spread thin across a city built for drive-throughs, so the good ones are worth knowing by address.
The Little Coffee Shoppe
Latin-fusion café on Wiles Road with Venezuelan specials and empanadas beside the espresso; the city holds its own budget-talk sessions here.
10732 Wiles RdFeffy's Café
One-woman coffeehouse opened in 2025 with a couch, a shelf of books, matcha and tea alongside coffee, croissants and bagels.
9894 W Sample RdParis Baguette
Broward County's first Paris Baguette, opened August 2026 at Cornerstone with Lavazza coffee and a viewing window into the cake-decorating room.
3326 N University DrYara Café
The former Downtown Espresso space, reopened in May 2026 under new owners with protein coffee, matcha lattes and gluten-free sandwiches, open until 7 pm.
3111 N University DrMaha Juice Bar
Brazilian-inspired açaí bowls and juices, opened August 2026 in the Cornerstone block.
3256 N University DrAfter Dark
Evenings are quiet by design. What nightlife exists is restaurant bars and one brewpub, with Big Whiskey's still to come at Cornerstone.
Big Bear Brewing Company
House-brewed beer, happy hour daily from 11:30 to 6, and the closest thing the city has to a hockey bar on Panthers game nights.
1800 N University DrRunyon's Piano Room & Bar
Live piano Tuesday to Saturday and a 3-to-6 happy hour; the special-occasion bar of record since 1984.
9810 W Sample RdTap 42 Craft Kitchen & Bar
Craft-beer and bourbon chain on University Drive, open until midnight Friday and Saturday with weekend brunch.
3111 N University DrGary Rack's Farmhouse Kitchen
Cocktails until 11 pm on weekends and a Sunday brunch DJ from 11 to 3 make it the downtown block's default bar.
3314 N University DrEmber & Vine
Wine flights on Coral Ridge Drive and a Mahjong and Mimosas night on Mondays.
5920 Coral Ridge DrParks and Green Space
Forty-nine city parks, plus a county cypress preserve and a wildlife hospital, with the Everglades conservation area beginning at the Sawgrass Expressway. Dogs are allowed in neighbourhood parks and the dog park, not the big community parks.
Sportsplex at Coral Springs
The athletic hub: baseball and softball diamonds, turf soccer and football fields, batting cages, sand volleyball and pickleball. A design contract for an expansion valued at up to $100 million was deferred in August 2026 until after the November 3 vote.
2800 Sportsplex DrMullins Park
The 70-acre signature park with pool, ball fields, tennis and pickleball, home of the Fourth of July fireworks and, until July 2027, the 14-foot LED sculpture Liberty Lines installed for the country's 250th.
10000 Ben Geiger DrTall Cypress Natural Area
A Broward County preserve of roughly 66 acres of cypress swamp and pine flatwoods with a flat, stroller-friendly boardwalk loop of about 25 minutes.
3700 Turtle Run BlvdSawgrass Nature Center & Wildlife Hospital
Nonprofit that rehabilitates more than 1,200 native animals a year, with an aviary, orchid garden and apiary; $5 adults, closed Mondays, Orchid & Plant Festival December 5–6, 2026.
3000 Sportsplex DrSandy Ridge Sanctuary
Thirty-eight acres of slash pine, bald cypress and gopher tortoises around a lake, with paved trails, a playground and pavilions from sunrise to sunset.
8501 NW 40th StCypress Park & Cypress Hammock
Forty-six acres of ball fields and a fitness track beside a 16-acre hammock with eight tennis courts, a pool with a slide and a water playground.
1301 Coral Springs DrBetti Stradling Park
Twenty-one acres at the north end with a covered playground, a $5 skatepark, beach volleyball and exercise stations.
10301 Wiles RdSports and Family
Sportsplex Drive concentrates the city's competitive facilities, and most of them are open to the public.
Aquatic Complex
A 50-metre pool, a 25-metre pool, a diving well with platforms to 10 metres, a teaching pool and a 7,500-square-foot gym, geothermally heated; open from 6 am on weekdays.
12441 Royal Palm BlvdFlorida Panthers IceDen
The Panthers' community rink complex, open 6 am to 9 pm with public skating, Learn to Play sessions, a skating academy and youth and adult hockey leagues.
3299 Sportsplex DrCoral Springs Tennis Center
Twenty lit courts, 12 of them Har-Tru clay, plus four pickleball courts and a waterfront clubhouse.
2575 Sportsplex DrUrban Air Adventure Park
Indoor trampolines, zipline, ropes course, climbing walls and bumper cars on Sample Road, with an under-7 zone; all-day play about $35.
6001 W Sample RdCherry Smash Ice Cream
Vintage parlour on Wiles Road since 2012, famous for its over-the-top Halloween and Christmas décor; one of two Coral Springs shops in a 2026 national best-ice-cream bracket.
8000 Wiles RdWhere to Shop
Retail follows University Drive and Sample Road: an enclosed 1984 mall, an open-air strip with Trader Joe's, and the new downtown block.
Coral Square
The 1984 Simon mall at Atlantic and University, about 944,000 square feet with Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's, and since February 2026 its first sit-down restaurant, The Knife.
9469 W Atlantic BlvdThe Walk of Coral Springs
Open-air centre on the 2700 block of University Drive with Trader Joe's, The Great Greek and a live-music series on Wednesdays and monthly Sundays.
2700–2800 N University DrCornerstone at Downtown Coral Springs
The mixed-use block under the Modera apartments: Mitch's Downtown deli, Tacocraft, Gary Rack's, Paris Baguette and Maha Juice Bar open, with the Museum of Art's gallery and Big Whiskey's due in fall 2026.
3300 block N University DrFlora Fine Foods
The Flora family's Italian import showroom and cafeteria on West Sample Road, with Angela's Bar & Kitchen upstairs.
12329 W Sample RdSawgrass Center
Publix-anchored plaza on Coral Ridge Drive that gained Ember & Vine and Pummarola in August 2026.
5900–6200 Coral Ridge DrCulture and Events
A 1,471-seat municipal theatre, a free art museum about to open a downtown gallery, and a civic calendar that peaks at Mullins Park on the Fourth of July.
Coral Springs Center for the Arts
The 1,471-seat theatre (opened 1990, renovated 1996) draws about 200,000 visitors a year; the 2026–27 season runs from a Selena tribute on September 12 through Whose Line Is It Anyway? on October 9 and A Magical Cirque Christmas on November 18.
2855 Coral Springs DrCoral Springs Museum of Art
Free admission, founded 1997, with classes and camps; its new downtown gallery at Cornerstone opens in fall 2026 with Picasso: A Graphic Journey, 57 original prints from 1923 to 1972.
2855 Coral Springs DrMuseum of Coral Springs History
The 1964 Coral Ridge Properties sales office, later the first city hall and police station, beside Mullins Pool; free tours on the fourth Saturday with a historian.
10250 NW 29th StFourth of July at Mullins Park
The city's biggest free event, expanded in 2026 for the country's 250th with an afternoon programme and 8:45 pm fireworks.
10000 Ben Geiger DrBasser's Food and Wine Festival
Sixth year in August 2026 at the Heron Bay Marriott: 175 wines, about 15 local restaurants, capped at 600 guests.
11775 Heron Bay BlvdDowntown in December
The annual December programme on the City Hall lawn: a tree lighting, synchronised light shows through the month and the Holiday Parade along Sample Road.
9500 W Sample RdGroceries and Markets
Publix on nearly every arterial, plus the two specialty chains that matter. There is no Sprouts in the city; the nearest is in Coconut Creek.
Publix
Six-plus stores inside the city, from the Sawgrass Center on Coral Ridge Drive to Ramblewood Square on University Drive and Brookside Square on Wiles Road.
5950 Coral Ridge Dr and othersWhole Foods Market
The city's Whole Foods, on North University Drive, open daily 8 am to 10 pm.
810 N University DrALDI
Three stores: University Drive, West Sample Road and Wiles Road.
651 N University Dr and othersFrequently Asked Questions
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