[Aessotariq]

It had gone before the city's Historic Preservation Board last week. Not sure as to the status just yet.

[Dale]

Aessotariq, on Jun 14 2005, 02:25 PM, said:

It had gone before the city's Historic Preservation Board last week. Not sure as to the status just yet.

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Wow ! Good find, Aessotariq. I'd just about written it off as dead.

[Brickell]

The Trump International Hotel and Tower Fort Lauderdale is now under construction.
24 stories of hotel/condo on the beach. Nice.

http://www.bizjourna...13/daily31.html

more info and rendering here:
http://www.andyweiser.com/newcon.htm

[Dale]

Any word on the 42 story Related project to be FTL's tallest ?

[Brickell]

The Hyde Park site I believe is the one you're referring to. Haven't heard any new news.

http://www.urbanplan...266&#entry96266

http://www.andyweise...rk_mkt_site.htm

[Aessotariq]

Topical Currents, a local affairs program on public radio station, WLRN, recently featured an hour-long frank discussion on the future of Broward County. Topics included city-county cooperation, mass transit, affordable housing, urban sprawl and redevelopment, pedestrian-friendly development, and school overcrowding. Featured guests included Stacy Ritter, chair of the Management Efficiency Study Committee, convened to study and review ways to improve county government, and Kristin Jacobs, the Mayor of Broward County.

You can listen to the hour-long program here until the end of the week: Topical Currents - June 13th

The two were especially enthusiastic about transit-oriented developments and the future proposed light rail lines. All of these issues not only affect and pertain to Broward, but all of South Florida.

[Aessotariq]

Pompano Beach may see a new beachfront condo soon, on the present site currently occupied by two hotels. If approved, 16-story, 50 unit tower will be built at 730 and 740 N Ocean Blvd. Construction expected to start in mid-2006.

more: South Florida Business Journal

[Florida]

That Sunrise area is quite nice. I think the Sawgrass Mills expansion will be very nice.

[Aessotariq]

Two new condo towers are to be built on the site formerly occupied by the Cleveland Clinic Florida, at 2835 N Ocean Blvd, on Fort Lauderdale Beach. The hospital relocated to Weston in 2001. The Altman Companies plans to build The Sapphire, featuring two 12-story towers, totalling 172 units, with prices starting at $400k.

more: Sun-Sentinel (for a limited time)

[sunshine]

Any news on the Trump Tower Fort Lauderdale?

[Brickell]

7 posts up ^^^

[Aessotariq]

Broward County has approved a land use change that will allow several new mixed-use development to move forward in the cities of Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale. Both resolutions passed unanimously.

Fort Lauderdale had initially requested a land use change to allow an additional 13,000 new units in an area that only allowed 5,100. Back in March the county reduced the addition to 3,000 (for a total of 8,100 allowable units), citing that the city had not clearly addressed the transportation and other infrastructural needs of the area. The site in question is designated a "regional activity center", which allows high density mixed use development.

[Brickell]

Hard Rock Live which has been incredibly popular in Orlando is coming to Broward.
This is a great thing for the South Florida music scene if Orlando is any indication.


http://www.bizjourna.../11/story5.html

[Aessotariq]

Developer wishes to build Downtown Lofts in Fort Lauderdale, two 15-story towers with 210 residential units. It has to be approved by the city commission first, which will decide if it is appropriate for the surrounding area, which consists of auto-body shops, nondescript office buildings, industrial buildings, and townhouses.

http://www.sun-senti...la-news-broward

[Urban_Legend]

^^Great news about the Hard Rock Live, and these new lofts downtown. I think it's good for Broward in general, because it's in the "central" location of the South Florida Megalopolis. Now Palm Beachers and Miamians can commune at a concert at Hard Rock!

[Aessotariq]

The city of Fort Lauderdale has just approved Downtown Lofts, a new residential project, consisting of 210 units within two 15-story towers, and 4500 sq ft. of office space. This is one of several new projects that will be built in the city's northwest quadrant, north of Broward Blvd and west of Andrews Avenue. The site is presently contains vacant warehouses.

http://www.sun-senti...ews-browardcomm

Related UrbanPlanet.org topics: 57764"]South Florida P&C: Downtown Lofts

[Urban_Legend]

There seems to be alot of new projects in this N. Andrews area. I've never really explored that part of downtown before.

[Dale]

Two 30-story residential towers planned for Flagler Village.

http://www.globest.c...i/136525-1.html

Related UrbanPlanet.org topic: South Florida P&C: 300 Third

[Aessotariq]

Broward may be near-built out, but that doesn't mean there's no activity. The Eastward Ho! initiative was started to push development back east, encouraging higher-density infill development in Broward's older, eastern cities. Places such as Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale are now being given a second look when in earlier years the preferred choices of settlement would have been the likes of Pembroke Pines, Coral Springs, or Plantation, epitomes of suburbia.

It looks like the next new downtown will be Pompano Beach. Good luck to them... right now their "downtown" is in shambles, and the last time I was there a few months ago I didn't see anything that I would refer to as a downtown. The city wants to redevelop land currently owned by FEC, that the city currently leases. The city wants to acquire it via eminent domain. Can they? FEC says it's not within their eminent domain powers to acquire land owned by a railroad.

http://www.sun-senti...-home-headlines

[Aessotariq]

Some info about the the Tao condominium project being built in Sunrise, near Sawgrass Mills. The project will have a distinctly Asian-influenced design and the marketing has taken this direction too. The project is expected to be completed in 2007.

Quote

Oriental influences in architecture and design, Abbate said, are manifested in a combination of different elements such as use of silk fabric, bamboo, suspended screens and carefully orchestrated garden elements. Generally, however, it's more of a design philosophy capturing the energies of how we move through space, how we capture light.

http://www.sun-senti...iness-headlines

Related UrbanPlanet.org topic: 13780"]South Florida P&C: Tao Condominiums