Downtown Hollywood Harrison Street Streetscape: What Comes Next

Walk down Harrison Street this week and the new pavers are underfoot before you notice them, the kind of clean geometric brickwork that makes an ankle-turning old sidewalk feel like an entirely different street. Cross over to Hollywood Boulevard, one block away, and you hit orange cones again, fresh ones, the kind that showed up in the last two weeks.

The schedules overlap: Hollywood Boulevard's Phase 3 began three days before Harrison Street's final phase ended. Downtown Hollywood's streetscape work is continuing on a new block.

Two Streets, One Continuous Timeline

The Harrison Street Streetscape Project has run in six sequential phases since it broke ground on September 29, 2025, each one closing half a block at a time so that businesses stayed reachable while crews replaced pavers, regraded drainage and installed new tree pits. The Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency's project page lists Phase 6, the north side of the 2000 block, running from July 6 to September 18, 2026. That target date has already passed. Final milling, resurfacing and crosswalk striping are still trickling in after the main phase closes, but the sidewalks along that stretch are functionally done.

Here is the part that would be easy to miss if you only look at one project at a time: Hollywood Boulevard's own reconstruction, a separate CRA project covering the boulevard itself from 21st Avenue to Young Circle, moved into Phase 3 on September 15, three days before Harrison's final phase wrapped. The Hollywood Boulevard Streetscape Improvement Project schedule shows Phase 2 ending September 14 and Phase 3 beginning the next day, with Phase 4 slated for October 13 through November 9.

The dates show streetscape work continuing corridor by corridor within a historic business district that the agency has managed since 1979 and that runs, by its own boundary map, from Johnson Street down to Washington Street. Harrison Street's phase came first; Hollywood Boulevard's is now underway.

Common Room on Harrison Street

BOL Hospitality Group is opening Common Room at 2032 Harrison Street on the 2000 block of Harrison. The group behind Social Room and several concepts at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood confirmed the address back in May, but as of that announcement no exact opening date had been set. On that same 2000 block, the south side didn't finish its phase until February 2026, and the north side, where Common Room sits, wasn't substantially complete until this month.

Common Room's own promotional language calls itself a neighborhood anchor for the boulevard's resurgence, and the design leans into that framing with a hidden speakeasy called the Brooklyn Room, tucked behind the restaurant and reachable through the back alley, invitation only. It is a deliberately old-school touch on a street that just got a very new sidewalk. Executive chef Tanya Evans is running the kitchen, with a menu built around lobster rolls, slow-braised short ribs and a French dip, and a cocktail program from Miami's Unfiltered Hospitality.

An earlier design concept reviewed by the CRA board back in 2024 called for expanded sidewalk cafe islands along Harrison specifically so restaurants like this one would have room for outdoor seating once construction cleared. Common Room's future patio, still in planning, is a direct beneficiary of that push.

What Else Opened While the Cones Were Up

Blu Steakhouse held its grand opening party on August 15, during Harrison Street's final phase.

Not every new opening downtown had to wait on a paver crew. Over on Hollywood Beach, Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort added JWB Prime Steak and Seafood to its lineup, a steak and seafood room named for Jimmy Buffett himself, serving 26-day wet-aged steaks and a raw bar with ocean views from the Broadwalk. The beach never had to route around a downtown construction schedule, which is part of why its restaurant additions and its programming have felt steadier through all of this.

The Beach Kept Its Own Rhythm

While downtown absorbed over a year of block-by-block construction, Hollywood Beach Theatre never missed a beat. The outdoor venue on the Broadwalk at Johnson Street runs free live music five nights a week, Wednesday through Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m., programmed by Margaritaville. September's lineup has included Dottie Kelly playing Motown, funk and blues, and Miss Dympsey's Class covering classic rock, a rotation that has continued through the same months Harrison Street was down to one lane.

That contrast is worth sitting with. Downtown's food and retail scene has had to plan around a construction calendar for well over a year, with more to come through November. The beach corridor, with its own infrastructure work largely finished in earlier phases, has been the more predictable half of the city this whole time.

The Rest of Your Fall Calendar Downtown

The Downtown Hollywood Art Walk ran this past Saturday, September 19, from 6 to 10 p.m., pulling foot traffic through the same blocks where the newly finished Harrison sidewalks are still fresh enough to photograph well. It is the kind of event that tends to land differently depending on which side of the construction calendar a business is on, and this year the timing gave Harrison Street businesses a full weekend to show off pavers that had barely cured.

Looking ahead, the city's Restaurant Month runs from October 1 through October 31, with participating restaurants offering prix-fixe lunch and dinner menus built to get residents into spots they might not have tried yet. Registration for restaurants was still open as of late summer, which means the final list of participants will likely include some names that only opened this year, Common Room and Blu Steakhouse among the plausible candidates given their timing.

What the Handoff Actually Means If You Live Here

The headline most people would write about downtown Hollywood right now is "construction is finally over." That is not accurate. Harrison Street's sidewalks are done, while Hollywood Boulevard's four-phase rebuild is roughly a third complete, with the current phase running through October 12 and one more phase after that stretching into mid-November.

If you are used to routing around Harrison Street construction, that habit is about to become useless, because the disruption has already relocated one block over. If you have been waiting for a finished sidewalk to try Common Room, the wait is essentially over. And if you want a preview of what the boulevard will look like once its own project wraps, Harrison Street is already showing you.

None of this requires a real estate transaction to be worth knowing. It requires walking through downtown Hollywood in the next few weeks and noticing which block just got easier to be on, and which one just got harder.

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