For years now Oakland Park has been touting its “Culinary Arts District,” the strip of 12th Avenue east of Dixie Highway and north of Oakland Park Blvd. The concept for the Culinary Arts District came about after the city hired Redevelopment Management Associates (RMA) to develop a 5-year strategic plan for the downtown strip. The problem is, they didn’t do much about it, nor did they have much of a focus.