FORT LAUDERDALE | 111 E. Broward Blvd | 436 FT / 139 M | 30 FLOORS | PRO

[Jonny722]

Just stumbled on this article from Aug 26. I don't have any other info other than what I found on the DRC site.


From the DRC:
Site Plan Review / 228 Room Hotel, 9,872 sf Retail Use, 299,880 sf
Office Use and 1,011 Space Garage / RAC-CC
Location: 111 E. Broward Blvd.

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High-rise hotel-office tower proposed for downtown Fort Lauderdale: Developer plans 30-story building in Lauderdale (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) By Brittany Wallman, South Florida Sun-SentinelMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News
Aug. 26--Fort Lauderdale Another high-rise hotel-office tower may rise up on the downtown skyline.

An Aventura developer, Groupe Pacific, submitted plans to the city for a 30-story, two-building combo that juts 436 feet into the sky, on Broward Boulevard.

The Groupe Pacific tower is called "111 Broward Boulevard" in planning documents.

The drawings show a circular drop-off on the side that fronts Northeast First Street, directly across from City Hall's three-story parking garage. That side of the property, the north, would provide entry to the hotel lobby. The office structure, which is connected to the hotel but made distinct through design and color, fronts Broward Boulevard.

Two retail stores would be on the boulevard ground floor, and a small retail shop would be on the side that faces Northeast First Street, according to the plans.

The land is zoned for intense, regional development. Of the 567,388 total square feet, about 300,000 would be office space.

The first floor would be lobbies, and the second through ninth would be a parking garage with 1,011 parking spaces, the planning drawings show.

On the 10th floor would be the hotel restaurant and meeting rooms. The 11th through 24th floors would be office and hotel. The 25th floor would be dedicated to recreation: a pool, grill and bar, spa and sauna.

The hotel continues to the 30th floor. The tower tops off at 393 feet, but the roof spire is 436 feet at its highest.

The hotel has not been approved yet by the city and is not yet scheduled for a City Commission review.

Representatives of the developer could not be reached for comment.

City planning staff reviewed the plans Aug. 14, and their comments can be viewed on the city's Web site at www.fortlauderdale.gov. Click on Planning and Zoning under the Quick Links drop-down menu on the home page. Then click on Development Review Committee, and then DRC Comments. The tower is on the Aug. 14 agenda, with a hotlink to staff comments.

The 1.24-acre site on the busy boulevard is between the four-story Federal Building & Courthouse and a 20-story office tower. The property, currently a vacant one-and two-story pink complex, is across from the Broward County Main Library and offices and restaurants.

The same company proposed a much taller building there two years ago -- a 48-story tower that would have been the tallest in the city. But that project, which would have been filled with residential condos, fell through. Now, following on the heels of other developers pursuing a hotel and office market, Groupe Pacific submitted plans for the gray glass and stucco building.

Downtown is in the grips of a moratorium on building residential properties. A cap on the number of homes that can be built downtown was reached in 2005, and the city has not yet amended the rules to allow more.

Groupe Pacific was the project left hanging when the cap was reached in 2005. The condo plans were on the City Commission agenda with two other residential towers in September 2005; city commissioners could choose only two. They passed over Groupe Pacific.

Since then, developers have turned to office and hotel projects for downtown.

The historic Riverside Hotel came forward recently with plans for a major expansion that will spell demolition for storefronts east of it on its Las Olas Boulevard block. A hotel is proposed as part of a demolition and complete do-over of the Las Olas Riverfront entertainment complex on the New River just west of Andrews Avenue.

And on Las Olas Boulevard next door to the New River Center tower, Tarragon Corp. and Simmons Vedder & Co. submitted plans for a 27-story hotel-office to stand in front of Tarragon's 42-story River House condo.

Fort Lauderdale's public beachfront is lined with new luxury hotels, some of which are still under construction.

Brittany Wallman can be reached at or 954-356-4541.

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[mr jones]

http://www.onelevenbroward.com/


Credits: Groupe Pacific

[dallasbrink]

thats nice

[mr jones]

One Eleven Broward
Office & Hotel
30 Floors, 440 FT
111 E Broward Bvld., 33301
http://www.oneelevenbroward.com/

Parking = lower white
Office space = upper white
Hotel space = tan

Fort Lauderdale: Commission takes up marina, hotel-office
May 6, 2008
Sun-Sentinel

...The hotel-office tower is proposed on Broward Boulevard downtown, next to the federal courthouse. Broward GP LLC is proposing a hotel-office project consisting of a 30-story tower and a 24-story tower, at 111 E. Broward Blvd.

The top of the "decorative roof structure" would reach 440 feet. That's not quite as tall as the city's tallest building, River House condo, which is 452 feet. Icon, to be built next to the Stranahan House on Las Olas Boulevard, is to be 455 feet. Tonight's meeting starts at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 100 N. Andrews Ave., on the ground floor. Or it can be viewed at www.fortlauderdale.gov; Go to Quick Links on the right side of the home page and select Commission Video. Residents also can watch on local cable Channel 78.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...,7293172.story


Photo credits: GA Pacific

[mr jones]

Tower gets approved.

Fort Lauderdale OKs hotel-office complex next to federal courthouse
By Brittany Wallman | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
11:00 PM EDT, May 6, 2008

FORT LAUDERDALE - Despite concerns from a lineup of federal judges, a double-tower hotel-office complex will be built next to the federal courthouse downtown.

The federal judges showed up at Tuesday night's City Commission meeting in hopes of having plans for the high-rise and its traffic altered to address their security concerns. But a majority of city commissioners didn't support stopping the project, and it will be allowed to go up as planned, at 111 E. Broward Blvd.

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The downtown high-rise, proposed by developer Groupe Pacific, will include a 230-room hotel in a 30-story tower, and 280,000 square feet of office space in a 24-story tower. The two towers are merged into one, with retail and restaurant space on the ground floor.

It is one in a long line of new hotel plans downtown that would bring more than 1,000 beds to the small urban core. A similar hotel renaissance is in play along the beach strip as well, with some just open and others still under construction or just approved. In addition, Broward County is working on a new 1,000-bed hotel to serve the county convention center near Port Everglades.

The developer previously had proposed a condo that would have been much taller; this tower would still be one of the city's tallest, at 436 feet, according to the drawings.

The judges were more concerned about street level, though. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Federico Moreno told city commissioners Tuesday he and four other judges were not "here to deprive a property owner and a good citizen and developer his property rights," but were concerned about their safety and the safety of others who use the federal building.

The new tower would rise next door and would bring the traffic and security issues of 1,011 cars.

"It's not just because of 9-11," Moreno said. "It pre-dates 9-11. Oklahoma City was bombed by a car bomb. An all-American city, a nice town, a town like Fort Lauderdale."

The tower had been approved by staff and the city's rules would only allow city commissioners to vote if they felt the laws had been misapplied. Vice Mayor Charlotte Rodstrom thought they were and wanted to hold a public hearing about the tower. Mayor Jim Naugle voted in favor of holding a public hearing. But Commissioners Carlton Moore and Cindi Hutchinson did not.

Christine Teel was not present. The motion failed on a 2-2 tie.

City Manager George Gretsas said the developer made voluntary concessions for security and had done more than he had to do. Naugle told the dejected judges the city would do all it could to make sure they were safe.

"We're concerned about your safety, the public's safety, and how we're going to make this work," he said.

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Brittany Wallman can be reached at bwallman@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4541.

Left out the marina portions of the article. Full article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...,6191697.story