Coral Springs, Fla. ,
The families of the victims, as well as the Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation, will select one of the six designs to build a memorial in the field of coral springs.
“Throughout the years, numbness stops, and it is difficult for me,” Genna Hair said, who lost his son Luke in the massacre on 14 February 2018. “This is the long life of Luke’s departure. It just gets bigger and big, and I miss him a lot, very much.”
As families mourned the death of their loved ones, six finalists, including three from Florida, were nominated in the National Design Competition for a memorial.
Lori Alhadf said, “This will be a place for us to reflect the loss of ELISA and 16 others, and just to live there, a place, a special place, to go to us, to go and heal,” Lori Alhadf said.
More than 50 designs were presented, but only six were selected.
Six finalists will present their ideas to families and Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation Board in March.
Tom Hair said, “We still have some ways to go on it, so we are going to be a part of it, but we like what we have seen so far.”
Tony Montalto said, “Any of the six elected six will be unprecedented.”
Montalto, who lost his daughter Jeena, is helping to lead the memorial’s effort. He said that the project should be finalized by the end of the year.
“If we can do it soon, we will see. You know, it will depend a lot on whether the design teams come in and give us Apple to compare Apple, or if they give us the goods that are widely uneven. Then we will need some more time,” Montalto said.
Max Scatcher, who lost his son Alex, said he was excited to build the memorial.
He said, “I am excited to be a proper monument there, not the tragedy, but the life we have lost and the beautiful people who have lost,” he said.
Families of the victims hope that the community can help in the wealth of this monument.
“Hopefully, many communities will help us raise money so that we can do something that is really beautiful and long lasting, and it will be a memory and others can come to travel,” Shachar said.
The monument will be built from the coral ridge drive and Heron Bay Bulleward.
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To see the rendering of six finalists, click here
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